In order to respond to the superstrat craze, Gibson introduced new models such as the US-1, the US-2, M-III, Q-3000, and WRC models . Though the US-1 was one of Gibson's first mass-production superstrats the Victory MV is the true "FIRST" Gibson superstrat. The MV's were rare guitars when they were new. Only 1800 MVX and 200 MV2 were ever minted. They were distributed worldwide. Only the earliest of these exceptional Gibson Victory MV guitars (quantity unknown) were handmade by the 44 veteran luthiers in the historic 225 Parsons St. Kalamazoo factory, using the best methods, and highest quality materials, with reputations of caring about each instrument as a creative piece of art. They were also the last. In 1981 America was in terrible stagflation, the economy was miserable, Millions of union auto workers and steel mill workers lost their jobs due to cheap imported cars and steel, The OPEC oil cartel controlled the world oil supply and had America on its knees . Americans begged in long lines at gas station for overpriced gas, banks started to foreclose on family farms, and the Kalamazoo factory founded in 1894 by Orville H. Gibson was shut down. Les Paul himself came with a truck to rescue the KZ/LP115 Pickup Winding Machine. and final minting of the MV's were sent to Nashville using automated milling and routing equipment and the "speedy" Meteor ME-301 PAF Pickup Winder. Some of the master luthiers who made the last "Kalamazoo Victories" purchased the old Gibson factory, equipment, and tools, and started the Heritage Guitar Co. Emphasizing quality before quantity, the character of the two factories that Gibson ran in the early '80s was quite different. Nashville was set up to produce large quantities of a few individual models whereas Kalamazoo was more flexible and could design, specialize, and customize small runs and "one-of-a-kind" instruments. The MV's were superb guitars: a Victory, both in name and features, ahead of its time, but a defeat for Gibson in terms of sales. Due to the double-dip recession top shelf guitars were simply unaffordable to most professional musicians at the time. The Victory MV's were hard to find in music stores. The Victory MV's were not well marketed. In the late 70's getting a copy of the Gibson Guitar Catalog was on every musicians wish list. But in 1981 and 1982 there were no American catalogs. To save money on advertising, Gibson only publicized the Victories with a 5 page black and white paper leaflet. It was also very poor timing to market the Victory MV-2 as "Designed primarily for the discerning country player" during the worst farm foreclosure crisis in US history. It was not until 1983 that the Gibson Guitar Catalog showed a Twilight Blue Victory MVX with a Kahler tremolo in a full color high quality photograph. Only a small percentage of Victory MV's actually have the original Kahler 2200 Tremolo System invented in 1979 by Gary Kahler and Dave Storey, and an even smaller percentage have a "Gibson Branded" Kahler 2200 Tremolo. Shredder Danny Coralles from Autopsy/Abscess - one of the early breed of US death metal acts still plays his Victory MVX. The Kinks' Ray Davies also played a Victory MVX. The Victory MV guitars are perhaps some of the most underestimated, and short lived guitars in Gibson history. The bulk of production seems to have been limited to the second half of 1981, and the first quarter of 1982 in Nashville. Blink in the early 1980s and you would have missed them. Tim Shaw engineered the Victory MV's with a series of specially designed Humbucker Pickup Kalamazoo Victory pickups were hand made one at a time on the “center focused” KZ/LP115 PAF Pickup Winder, with high sensitivity and unique tonal signature with fewer turns of wire, less scatter and a narrow magnetic aperture, Nashville Victory pickups were produced on the Meteor ME-301 PAF Pickup Winder to the same Tim Shaw specifications.

Beautiful.. turn that reverb up

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😎 Sounds wonderful! Thank you!

P90

Thank you! 😊

I love simple soulful blues. No shredding please.

Ah yes...a Gibson SG with P90 pickups --> The psychedelic machine of the 60's.

what gauge strings are on this guitar?

'I tell you, love, sister. . .' Lovely, thank you! 💕 ✨️

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you are one of my favorite guitarist on here. I aspire to play like you!

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...ich war dabei - so genial ❤

This is great!

When am I going to buy one of these already??? Beautiful tone!

10 years later, that’s still one helluva toupee

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Bien joué Greg, Chris buck a du passer par là 😂 👍

Wow! Thank you! 😊

Sehr coole Gitarre von Frank - dynamisch geiler sound!

Cool👍

Love those pickups ❤❤❤

Muy bueno siempre

👍 80 mit freundlichem Gruß aus Berlin. Bitte um Info; Unterschied zwischen AG und AF 75 ?

Thoughts on GA-40 vs GA-20?

very nice tone.

Hello great playing did you find the neck to small nut width etc etc it sound amazing 👏

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die ist ja geil, auch der headstock gefällt!

I’ve got a fender modshop Aztec gold hss strat and just ordered the all parts neck aaa+ with the rosewood board I’m really looking forward to see how it looks

Hello there I 've the same guitar GIbson SG '61 Reissue, 1990. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fovdeaqEhK2Ljposi=Mk1U3_oFKHPbVvE-

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How wonderful that guitar!

It is possible this has the early unpotted Burstbuckers which were made in a different plant. To me these sound great but after this year.....and the huge increase in the Gibson VOS line I think the quality went down on "everything" custom shop. IMO.

Great Example of how good 57 classics can sound..... Just enough sweetness.

Notes are a bit thin and at times shrill. Custombuckers.....not always sounding good.

Nice guitar Greg 🎸 I really like my 2008 Gibson SG Classic even more with the Wolftone Mean & Meaner pickups..😎👌

Doesn’t matter which or what guitar Greg plays , Even here on acoustic You know it’s him.

Beautiful guitar

I love your “outside licks” your definitely a Fusion Guy

Hey Greg how’s it going! Do you still have these pickups? If so would would you be willing to sell them? Been trying to source some of these for a while! Thanks Dexter

Unfassbar gut. Wo soll das noch hinführen?😂 👍