Gibson Shaw NOS Patent Number Humbucker 1980s Double Cream With Ring and Screws Knobs and the original short 16th-fret

and the original short 16th-fret neck join — all the changes that improved the instrument over the 1959 original without any of the spec reductions that would arrive in 1965

The square-shouldered cabinet and separate head format produce the balanced low-end and clear upper-mids characteristic of early-sixties blackface-adjacent Fender design

I just feel there's something about them

It is kind of perfect: a small to medium-sized amp with the ability to deliver both sparkling clean tones and low-wattage breakup at 22 watts with 6V6 tubes and relatively small transformers

Changes to headstock for tuners

Gibson Shaw NOS Patent Number Humbucker 1980s Double Cream With Ring and Screws Knobs and the original short 16th-fretNo sales tax for US customers outside California. Tim Shaw joined Gibson in 1981 with a specific mandate: reverse engineer the original PAF humbucker. Working from original late 1950s specimens, Shaw analyzed the magnets, wire gauge, bobbin geometry, winding count, and potting method that produced the sound that players and collectors had been chasing for two decades. The resulting Shaw PAF produced from roughly 1981 through 1985 under the Patent