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The J-45 Gets Six Extra Strings and Chimes Like Never Before

The J-45™ is a truly legendary guitar. The world-famous Workhorse is Gibson's best-selling acoustic of all time. Now it is available in a new 12-string version. Featuring a mahogany body, Sitka spruce top, and mahogany neck, it has a SlimTaper™ neck profile for playing comfort, a bone nut and saddle, TUSQ® bridge pins, Grover® Mini Rotomatic® tuners, and comes equipped with LR Baggs™ VTC electronics, making it ready to deliver beautiful, chiming, 12-string tones on stage or in the studio, right out of the included Gibson hardshell case.

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Specifications

Body Specs

Back Mahogany

Binding Multi-ply Top, Single-ply Back

Body Finish Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer

Body Material Mahogany

Body Shape J-45

Body Styles Round Shoulder

Bracing Traditional Hand-Scalloped X-Bracing

Side Mahogany

Top Sitka Spruce

Neck Specs

Fingerboard Material Indian Rosewood

Fingerboard Radius 304.8mm / 12.0in

Fret Count 20

Frets Standard

Inlays Mother of Pearl Dots

Joint Compound Dovetail Neck-to-body Joint; Hot Hide Glue

Neck Material Mahogany

Nut Material Bone

Nut Width 47.63mm / 1.88in

Profile SlimTaper

Scale Length 628.65mm / 24.75in

Electronics Specs

Controls Soundhole Mounted Volume and Tone

Output Jack 1/4" Endpin Jack

Preamp LR Baggs VTC

Under Saddle Pickup LR Baggs VTC

Hardware Specs

Bridge Reverse Belly, Rosewood

Bridge Pins TUSQ

finish Nickel

Pickguard Tortoise Teardrop

Saddle Material TUSQ

Strap Buttons 2

Truss Rod Adjustable

Truss Rod Cover Bell Shaped, 2-ply Black and White

Tuner Plating Nickel

Tuning Machines Grover Mini Rotomatic

Misc Specs

Case Gibson Hardshell

Model: MCRS4512VSL

Headstock Inlay Gibson Logo in Mother of Pearl

Strings Gauge .012, .016, .024, .032, .042, .053

Gibson J-45 Standard 12-String, Left-Handed, Vintage Sunburst

Gibson J-45 Standard 12-String, Left-Handed, Vintage Sunburst

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Finish
Vintage Sunburst
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The J-45 Gets Six Extra Strings and Chimes Like Never Before

The J-45™ is a truly legendary guitar. The world-famous Workhorse is Gibson's best-selling acoustic of all time. Now it is available in a new 12-string version. Featuring a mahogany body, Sitka spruce top, and mahogany neck, it has a SlimTaper™ neck profile for playing comfort, a bone nut and saddle, TUSQ® bridge pins, Grover® Mini Rotomatic® tuners, and comes equipped with LR Baggs™ VTC electronics, making it ready to deliver beautiful, chiming, 12-string tones on stage or in the studio, right out of the included Gibson hardshell case.

Read more

Specifications

Body Specs

Back Mahogany

Binding Multi-ply Top, Single-ply Back

Body Finish Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer

Body Material Mahogany

Body Shape J-45

Body Styles Round Shoulder

Bracing Traditional Hand-Scalloped X-Bracing

Side Mahogany

Top Sitka Spruce

Neck Specs

Fingerboard Material Indian Rosewood

Fingerboard Radius 304.8mm / 12.0in

Fret Count 20

Frets Standard

Inlays Mother of Pearl Dots

Joint Compound Dovetail Neck-to-body Joint; Hot Hide Glue

Neck Material Mahogany

Nut Material Bone

Nut Width 47.63mm / 1.88in

Profile SlimTaper

Scale Length 628.65mm / 24.75in

Electronics Specs

Controls Soundhole Mounted Volume and Tone

Output Jack 1/4" Endpin Jack

Preamp LR Baggs VTC

Under Saddle Pickup LR Baggs VTC

Hardware Specs

Bridge Reverse Belly, Rosewood

Bridge Pins TUSQ

finish Nickel

Pickguard Tortoise Teardrop

Saddle Material TUSQ

Strap Buttons 2

Truss Rod Adjustable

Truss Rod Cover Bell Shaped, 2-ply Black and White

Tuner Plating Nickel

Tuning Machines Grover Mini Rotomatic

Misc Specs

Case Gibson Hardshell

Model: MCRS4512VSL

Headstock Inlay Gibson Logo in Mother of Pearl

Strings Gauge .012, .016, .024, .032, .042, .053