Gibson Oxblood R4 Historic re issue Jeff Beck sig model. Manufactured 2005, hand selected and imported to Japan by Yamano.

Has upgraded TysonTone Preacher handmade pu’s, and one of the original caps has been replaced with an orange drop, otherwise all standard.

Big fat bold sounding guitar nice chunky neck but with reduced shoulders to sit more comfortably in the hand. Is quite happy running either 10’s or 11’s. Back off the volume and the tone is thick and woody enough to play smooth jazz. Cranked, it’ll rattle your windows.

These guitars are faithful recreations of Jeff Beck’s LP as featured on Blow by Blow even down to the diy paintwork of the original . A short run of relic’d guitars signed by Beck was initially released and every few years a limited run came out ( thanks to the finish these relic themselves).

The back of the neck having only hand contact is unscathed but the body finish marks easily from buttons, bracelets, watches, string changes, intense frowning etc.

In order that buyers are aware of this I have used some v bright lighting and gone to some trouble to highlight these marks in pics 15-19, 14 is a flaw near the jack input which appears to be an excess of top coat, like a run ????

That being said. Underneath the surface paint lurks what looks to be a very decent flamed maple top. Pic 20. Captured using the technique in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=54&v=8Siv_kKkQ7Y

If i was a young guy with a long future playing ahead of me I’d strip it and have a unique highly figured R4. Unfortunately not the position I’m in.

Cost me over 5k to bring in a couple of years ago.