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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 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.

Guitar 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 Baggs VTC

Under Saddle Pickup Baggs VTC

Hardware Specs

Bridge Reverse Belly, Rosewood

Bridge Pins Bone

finish Nickel

Pickguard Tortoise Teardrop

Saddle Material Bone

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: MCRS4512VS

Headstock Inlay Gibson Logo in Mother of Pearl

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

Gibson J-45 Standard 12-String, Vintage Sunburst

Gibson J-45 Standard 12-String, 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 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.

    Guitar 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 Baggs VTC

    Under Saddle Pickup Baggs VTC

    Hardware Specs

    Bridge Reverse Belly, Rosewood

    Bridge Pins Bone

    finish Nickel

    Pickguard Tortoise Teardrop

    Saddle Material Bone

    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: MCRS4512VS

    Headstock Inlay Gibson Logo in Mother of Pearl

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