Gibson Wayne Benson signature Mandolin (NEW!) Start Price USD 5,000.00 Current Price USD 5,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, July 02, 2008 End Time Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Location BERKELEY, CA See more about 'Gibson Wayne Benson signature Mandolin (NEW!)' Description This is a 2004 Wayne Benson signature mandolin new with warranty and a hard shell case. We have has this instrument for a while and it needs to find a new home! Even though we have had it in the store for a while (almost 4 years) the instrument has very little shop wear on it and has been kept behind locked glass. I can send more pictures on request. I will be out of town for Saturday till Monday so any questions asked during that time will be answered on Tuesday. You will probably notice another mandolin listing very similar to this one...the Alan Bibey....yes it is from the same store. These are the last part of our Gibson dealership that ended a couple of years ago...and even though the 5th string is not a gibson dealer, the warranty is still valid. Below are some quotes about the specs of the instrument. Happy Bidding!!!! Gibson's Original Acoustic Instruments division has joined forces with one of bluegrass' leading young mandolinists to create the Wayne Benson Signature mandolin. Based on the F-5 scroll body design, the new model has a combination of distinctive cosmetic traits taken from Benson's specifications as well as suggestions from Gibson's luthiers, including a fingerboard without inlays to give it a "jazz" look, a Vintage Red Satin finish recreated from a historic F-4 model and an abalone fern headstock inlay like the F-5L "Fern." "The tone and the look couldn't suit me any better," says Benson, a member of the much-awarded bluegrass band IIIrd Tyme Out. "Word travels fast because it's a Gibson - Bill Monroe played a Gibson and it started there. I can't believe how many people are already contacting me about it." The rich-looking mandolin has a spruce top with maple back and sides, Benson's signature in abalone at the 12th fret, gold-plated hardware, ivoroid tuners and truss rod cover, and a slightly smaller pickguard. satin shaded red finish, tone bar-braced spruce top with f-holes, flamed maple back, sides, and neck, white-bound 29-fret ebony fingerboard with "Wayne Benson" signature inlaid in 11th and 12th frets, 1-1/16" nut width, 14" scale, adjustable ebony bridge, satin gold tailpiece cover engraved "Gibson / Wayne Benson", w-b-w-bound tortoise plastic pickguard, w-b-w-bound body and headstock, abalone fern headstock inlay, gold tuners with pearl buttons Place a Bid!