Gibson Lzzy Hale Signature Dark Explorer unleashed!
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If you’re one of those people who think the latest financial reports portend the imminent end of Gibson (we don’t), then for you the new Gibson Lzzy Hale Signature Dark Explorer might be one of the last signature model guitars from the company. And what a way to go out that would be, with a monster of a guitar like this.
Lzzy Hale
Featuring a pair of 57 Classic pickups and finished in nitrocellulose black finish with gold pickguard and hardware, the Lzzy Hale Dark Explorer looks pretty badass. To be fair, I think Explorers look pretty amazing anyway and this colour scheme just suits the guitar perfectly to my eye.
The guitar has the 24.75″ scale length we all associate with a Gibson, the 22 medium frets are cryogenically treated and fitted to a Richlite fretboard with Mother Of Pearl block inlays. It also has a set of gold Locking Mini Grovers with black buttons which should be perfect for keeping the tuning rock solid.
Gibson Lzzy Hale Signature Dark Explorer · Source: Gibson
Rock Machine
The body and neck are all mahogany, so expect a good solid rock tone from this guitar. It looks on paper to be perfectly suited for this type of music. I have no idea who Lzzy Hale is myself, but it looks like she and Gibson may have come up with a great guitar, and I think the price is reasonable for a signature model. Her band Halestorm aren’t on my radar and so I may need to go check them out now, as her taste in guitars is pretty spot on.
Hopefully, Gibson will sort out their financial woes and get a new lease of life, so we can get more guitars like this one.
RRP USD 2299
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4 responses to “Gibson Lzzy Hale Signature Dark Explorer unleashed!”
Both Lizzy Hale and Halestorm are quite well respected in the metal music community and given Gibson’s (and Henry’s) reluctance with dealing with/endorsing metal/extreme music musicians (except Slash) these days, I wonder if the marketing dept. at Gibson slipped this one past Henry J when he was “deep in his cups” one day 🙂
Lol, that is pretty funny to imagine, but possibly true! I’d never heard of her before, but I do like her taste in Explorers. A really good looking guitar with some nice little tweaks to make it worthy of a signature model.
Lizzy and her band have been around for 20 years now and she definitely likes Explorers. I believe this is the 2nd signature Gibson she has had (if memory serves me right) as I believe she had another one (an Explorer also) out maybe 4 or 5 years ago.
Pretty sure there was a white one with her name on it.