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Re: I am thinking about selling my Gibson Explorer 90
It's called an Explorer 90 Double.
It's not a custom shop guitar, but still very cool.
The series went something like this:
Explorer 90 (one hum)
Explorer 90 Double (one hum/one sinlge)
Flying V 90
Flying V 90 Double
SG 90 (I want one of these in a bad way)
SG 90 Double
Production was between 1988 - 1990.
Some came with a tremolo and some came as string thrus.
Some had binding on the neck and some didn't. It didn't matter what the model was.
I suspect that the binding was used on the earlier models, but by the end of the series,
Gibson got lazy and didn't put binding on the later ones. (Sorta like another guitar company
we all know and love, but that's a different rant.) But this is just a theory.
They don't come up for sale very often, regardless of the model. They have a very low blue book
value but I think that it is rare enough that you could probably get $800 US for it.
The whole series wasn't that popular and there wasn't very many made (compared to other
Gibson models.) But I think they're pretty dam cool. Gibson only put the split diamond
inlays on the '90' models, the Hendrix V models and the recent SG Supremes and ES-137s.
That's it as far as I know. I've never seen a LP with those inlays (although I bet it would look
pretty sharp) or any other model.
This one sold on ebay about a month ago, but I forgot how much it went for and I can't find
the auction. (I think around $800.)
And here's a V and an SG for reference's sake:
It's called an Explorer 90 Double.
It's not a custom shop guitar, but still very cool.
The series went something like this:
Explorer 90 (one hum)
Explorer 90 Double (one hum/one sinlge)
Flying V 90
Flying V 90 Double
SG 90 (I want one of these in a bad way)
SG 90 Double
Production was between 1988 - 1990.
Some came with a tremolo and some came as string thrus.
Some had binding on the neck and some didn't. It didn't matter what the model was.
I suspect that the binding was used on the earlier models, but by the end of the series,
Gibson got lazy and didn't put binding on the later ones. (Sorta like another guitar company
we all know and love, but that's a different rant.) But this is just a theory.
They don't come up for sale very often, regardless of the model. They have a very low blue book
value but I think that it is rare enough that you could probably get $800 US for it.
The whole series wasn't that popular and there wasn't very many made (compared to other
Gibson models.) But I think they're pretty dam cool. Gibson only put the split diamond
inlays on the '90' models, the Hendrix V models and the recent SG Supremes and ES-137s.
That's it as far as I know. I've never seen a LP with those inlays (although I bet it would look
pretty sharp) or any other model.
This one sold on ebay about a month ago, but I forgot how much it went for and I can't find
the auction. (I think around $800.)
And here's a V and an SG for reference's sake:
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