Technical sheet :
Archtop ES Artist USA
Body: Maple-Poplar-Maple
Top: Maple-Poplar-Maple
Neck: Maple 3 parts
Fingerboard: Richlite
Profile: 59 Rounded
Body-neck joint: glued, tenon-mortise
Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo type
Scale: 24.75"
Radius: 12"
Nut: corian (acrylic polymer)
Hooping: plek technology
Bridge Pickup: Gibson 490T Alnico Humbucker Humbucker
Neck Pickup: Gibson 490R Alnico Humbucker Humbucker
Controls: 1 volume per pickup, 1 tone per pickup, 6 position Varitone selector
Electronics: Switchcraft microphone and jack selector, 300k linear volume potentiometers, 500k non-linear tone
Bridge: Gibson Tun-O-Matic Zamak
Tailpiece: Gibson TP-6 in zamak
Tuning Machines: Gibson-Grover Kidney Oil Bath, 14:1 Ratio, Nickel
Hardware: gold
Colours: Ebony, Cherry
Varnish: gloss nitrocellulose (gloss)
Accessories: delivered in a Gibson Custom Shop case
Original strings: Gibson 010.046 tie rods
Gibson Lucille BB king
Lucille BB KING GIibson 1991
The anecdote told by the "king" (Huffington Post)
"Twist is about 70 km northwest of Memphis. So it was quite cold in the winter. To heat the room, they used some kind of stove, which they put in the middle of the track, in which they. put wood and kerosene or fuel to light it. People were dancing around, there was usually no problem. But that night two guys started to fight. And one of them started to fight. dropped the stove which spilled kerosene on the ground. It was like a river of fire and everyone rushed to the exit, including me, "he explained.
"But once outside, I realized that I had left my guitar inside. So I went back there for her," he explained, explaining that the place was made of wood, and that he had literally feared to leave his life there. "The next day we learned that the two had fought for a girl who worked there named Lucille. So I named my guitar Lucille to remind me to never do something like that,"
