![]() ![]() With its Fender-ish headstock ( six tuners on the top of the headstock - unlike the traditional Gibson three aside) on a maple bolt on neck featuring a 22 fret rosewood fingerboard. The early KG-2 was a two pickup model featuring a compressed chipboard (MDF) body, Double cutaway design with the pickguard and tailpiece quite high up the body. The first release of the Kalamazoo came in two configurations the KG1 and the KG2. The late ∖0s saw the Kalamazoo undergo a couple of incarnations the first release saw a body shape similar to the Fender Mustang with the second release more reminiscent of the Gibson SG. ![]() The name Kalamazoo has been associated a fair bit with Gibson over the years and acoustics, amplifiers and electrics have all been in receipt of the name at one stage or another. In competition to this Gibson introduced the Kalamazoo range (although visibly this wasnt branded Gibson, Kalamazoo made in the USA logo adorned the headstock). The Mustang went on to be a firm favourite among those looking for a cheap injection of retro cool together with a distinctive sound. In the 1960s Fender had the Mustang which was at the time a relatively cheap introduction to Fenders line offering a slightly different take on the traditional Fender sounds. "Gibson and Fender have produced such iconic (and different) instruments in the Les Paul and the Stratocaster that its sometimes easy to forget that they sometimes produced models in direct competition with each other, not only on budget but stylistically as well. Gibson Kalamazoo Electric Guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ![]() My answer from the gibson forums was this. I have the first edition which is also red with tremol. I just went through trying to find this out about my guitar which is a Kalamazoo KG-2. ![]()
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