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The Gibson Victory was an electric guitar produced by Gibson Guitars from until although some sources say production lasted until My Mama was a Fender That's why they call me Mindbender" about a guitar that could talk.
This song may have started the SuperStrat [2] battle, but in the early s, when musicians watched Eddie Van Halen play his Frankenstrat [3] they questioned and rethought everything about their instruments and the SuperStrat war began. Guitar buyers insisted on engineering advances allowing more speed and playability of skyscraping leads, dive bombing, and rock crushing shred.
The Victory, a superstrat , was a departure from Gibson's image as an old-fashioned guitar maker. MV stood for Multi-Voice, and X stood for ten. They were created by the Gibson research and development team in Kalamazoo, MI, with the sturdy body and neck work by Chuck Burge, and the "multi-voice" pickups and electronics by Tim Shaw. The three post holes in the underside allowed either side of the bridge unit to be moved forwards or backwards allowing intonation of ultra light or extra heavy string gauges, and twelve interchangeable individually-adjustable saddles, six standard nylon saddles and 6 optional brass saddles for fine adjustment of intonation and to affect tone.
Note that the brass saddle inserts are almost impossible to find. String gauge affects sound and playability. The high tension also allows lower action. Victories were built tough and stiff to easily handle the high tension of using much heavier string gauges total set tensions of pounds or more without a truss rod adjustment. Each pickup across the range is different, and specifically designed for the role it was assigned. The location of the Victory MV's pickups were carefully calculated to provide full frequency response and minimize dead spots by avoidance of string nodal points.
The majority of harmonics coincide with where the twenty fourth fret would be located. If you want to play your Victory above the 22nd fret, use a ring slide. Humbucker pickups are inherently low noise because the interference is significantly reduced via phase cancellation, however the Victory MV's have additional shielding connected to ground with the use of special electrically conductive black paint in the routed out area under the pickguard.
Truly silent when it should be. The coil tap switch in the up position is humbucker; in the down position is single coil, indistinguishable from traditional unshielded single coils minus the noise. Gibson had established business agreements for over years with the best wood suppliers in the world, and Gibson Luthiers had first pick to craft the Victory MV's.
Eastern Hard Rock Maple is extremely hard, dense, and stiff, producing earth quaking sustain. It is also hard on the hygroscopic substructure damaging the wood cells. Unless kiln dried lumber is kept in a fully climate-controlled building from the moment it comes out of the kiln, it will quickly re-absorb moisture from the ambient air, returning to the same moisture content as properly air-dried lumber.
But the internal tensions remain. The Victory MV's have a stacked laminate alternating wood grain neck design [19] crossbanding strengthens the overall neck, gives more tuning stabilization, and allowed the luthiers to eliminate the need for a scarf joint [20] at the headstock.
Contrasting laminated graining angles provides superior resistance against impact cracking over angled single piece necks, scarf joint necks, or necks with no break angle that require junky string tree clips to keep the strings in the nut. Wood improves with age because of the polymerization of sap over decades. Once the wood is removed from the living tree crystallizes.
Aged wood also loses its ability to absorb moisture, causing the wood to become more stiff and stable as it ages. Victory MV's have binding along the edges of the fretboard that cover the unfinished fret tangs, fret slot end gaps, and the nibs on the fret ends that can protrude. Binding is tedious painstaking work and requires skill to install properly, but provides a slick smooth feel, [22] is especially nice for sliding your hand along the fretboard, and gives a dressy look.
Not to be confused with undercut, fret over binding. The fret board on Victory Mv's have Nacre inlay markers, also known as mother of pearl, or oyster shell. It is hard, wear resistant, and iridescent. Using glue that is stronger than the wood itself, the Victory MV's mortise-and-tenon Set-in neck [25] has a tight permanent coupling, and facilitates ripples of vibrational energy that round out and thicken the sound with a comfortable contoured low profile heel transition and silky smooth, very slick, fast playing, rock-hard quartersawn Madagascan ebony fret board that is absolutely unbeatable for its durability.
In comparison, some guitars have a sticky glossy finish on a sealed fingerboard to keep moisture out that attracts dirt and grime. The Gibson Victory MV's elegant headstock shape has a fourteen degree stacked laminate "non-scarfed" break angle, made like a hockey stick.
By comparison beginner guitars have the headstock cut off and then glued back on at an angle, with dowel pegs creating a "Scarf Joint" to save money. Gibson Kalamazoo luthiers pioneered laminated guitar necks. The Victory's tuning machine alignment allows for a "perfectly straight" symmetrical pull on the strings that provides optimum string down pressure on the nut for the string to seat in the nut slot but not pinch, bind, or rattle in the slot, transferring all the vibration into the nut instead of into the tuning machines.
The Victory's chambered cutaway offers musicians with large hands better access to play in the top frets. The Gibson Victory MV's are not recommended for the weak, these sledge axes weigh a solid nine pounds but are perfectly balanced both on the strap or on the knee, Luthiers know guitars with more mass and density have more brilliance and sustain. Only a small percentage were Twilight Blue even more rare, sometimes a retailer who did a lot of business with Gibson would be able to ask for a small number of guitars with a special finish.
The Victory MV's came standard with a rugged black Gibson branded "" dual lock and key padded hard case with internal storage box. Decode the serial number on the back of the headstock to determine if your Victory was hand made by finding the location and the date of its manufacture. The MV's were rare guitars when they were new.
They were distributed worldwide. Only the earliest of these exceptional Gibson Victory MV guitars quantity unknown were handmade by the 44 veteran luthiers [38] in the historic 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. Americans begged in long lines at gas station for overpriced gas, banks started to foreclose on family farms. At the same time factories in Japan, China, and Korea were producing cheap lookalike copies of classic designs from Fender, Gibson, and Rickenbacker putting American luthiers out of work, and forcing American guitar companies to make the change to automated mass production lines, and the Kalamazoo factory founded in by Orville H.
Gibson was shut down. 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, [48] 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 not well marketed. In the late 70's getting a copy of the Gibson Guitar Catalog was on every musicians wish list. But in and there were no American catalogs.
To save money on advertising, Gibson [51] only publicized the Victories with a 5-page black and white paper leaflet. There was also at least one Gibson Victory MV with a white scratch plate. 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 , and the first quarter of in Nashville. Blink in the early s and you would have missed them. The Victory Standard, Artist, and Custom bass guitar model were produced from to c.
The Victory MV's were only available as a six string solid body guitar. Two models were produced:. Note: For many years quartersawn ebony boards have been unavailable because the farms of newly planted ebony trees are still small and need time to grow. Forest harvesting is greatly restricted. Worldwide demand for high quality ebony fretboards has made restoring and refretting vintage guitars very popular.
For over a century Gibson went to the ends of the Earth and into the deepest forests to obtain the finest wood on the planet to hand make their instruments. Generations of luthiers carried on the skills of their trade. As the guitar industry underwent the change to mass production more guitars were produced cheaper. The demand for old growth trees for premium specialty wood increased rapidly.
Restoring a fine classic instrument to new, or better than new condition is by far a better environmental choice than buying a new guitar. Collectors want to keep their guitars as close to original as possible, however there are some popular modifications Victory owners have made without damaging the instrument.
Change out those nylon inserts, they dampen sustain, Victories were engineered to ring like a bell. Look in to a Stetsbar tremolo system if your Victory does not have the original Kahler tremolo system. The Stetsbar tremolo system bolts right on to the original posts without any routing or drilling. Consider locking machine heads with automatic string trim, they are easy to do yourself and they keep your guitar in tune even better.
If the frets on your Victory are worn out, have a luthier re-fret your fret board with stainless steel fret wire, [65] the frets will last forever and you will never find better ebony. Re-fretting also allows you to choose new custom binding. Eventually your Victory will need fret work. The idea that a professional re-fret makes a guitar less valuable is uneducated. Victory MV's came standard with. By today's standards many professional guitar players feel Nickel Silver is too soft, however some luthiers do not like working with Stainless Steel because it ruins their tools.
Finding an experienced luthier is a must. Re-fretting your Victory gives you lots of choices, you can use the exact same fret wire it came with originally, or go harder. The Vickers hardness test was developed in by Robert L. Smith and George E. Sandland to measure the hardness of materials. You can also change fret wire size, but consider carefully.
Jumbo frets are easier for bending but can feel like driving fast over speed bumps with your fingers walking a tightrope. With medium frets a light touch is all it takes, they are easier to chord and won't go sharp- plus light gauge strings are still easy to bend. Do you want more control over string height on your Victory? Install a string height adjustable brass nut, especially if you like to play slide and fret at the same time - you can get your string height perfect.
Keep all of your original parts in a safe place. Exact match paint for your Victory can now be mixed with the use of a hand held "Spectrophotometer" at your local auto paint supply, just bring it in.
If you a musician who travels internationally: Ambiguous trade rules apply to CITES-listed tree species, such as ebony and rosewood, enforcing restrictions on your instrument.
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