INFO

It has tons of photos of Cloud 9s.

If you just like Historics and not Cloud 9s, it will look just like Historics

Numbers

Since the time that the Cloud 9 hit then market, I have tried to keep track of them. I have had tremendous help from Dave's, Music Machine, & Wildwood. I originally wanted to track the guitar from Gibson to the dealer and then the end customer unless they would rather not be known. My notes seem to have many wholes in the data. The tops may not be the color many would call them, but I have relied on the information provided by the dealer. I think part of the problem tracking some of them is when Dave's and Music Machine stopped being Gibson dealers. the guitars that should have gone to them were split between Wildwood and a dealer in Japan. I have not been able to find the exact dealer, but I guess it to be Ikebe-Gakki. They have a few posted on their web site.

Well, here is what I have:

316 Cloud 9's made to this point.....?

198 in 2004

24 in 2005

94 in 2006 as of 9/01/2006

(Who knows about the future? Noboby knows the exact number made except Gibson. They will not release that information to me or the 3 dealers involved)

30 of them have limited or no data provided to me. Maybe at Ikebe-Gakki?

YEAR	COUNT	TOP	TOTAL MADE
52			1
	1	Goldtop
54			33
	4	Brockburst
	2	Chambered Burst
	3	Cherry Sunburst
	1	Darkburst
	12	Goldtop
	2	Ice Tea
	4	Washed Cherry
	5	Unknown
56			18
	1	Brockburst
	1	Chambered Burst
	1	Chandler
	1	Classic White
	1	Cherry Sunburst
	1	Darkburst
	6	Goldtop (1 with dark back)
	2	Ice Tea
	2	Stanley
	2	Washed Cherry
57 Custom			23
	3	Faded Cherry
	20	Black Beauty
57			31
	1	Antique Gold
	1	Brunswick Blue
	2	Ebony
	3	Cherry
	3	Faded Cherry
	14	Goldtop (3 with dark back)
	7	Unknown
58			39
	1	Brockburst
	3	Chambered Burst
	1	Chandler
	1	Cherry Sunburst
	1	Darkburst
	9	Ice Tea
	8	Stanley
	11	Washed Cherry
	4	Unknown
59 Murphy Aged			4
	1	Cherry Sunburst
	1	Darkburst
	1	Ice Tea
	1	Washed Cherry
59			60
	3	Chambered Burst
	7	Cherry Sunburst
	1	Darkburst
	12	Ice Tea
	1	Iguana Burst
	6	Stanley
	1	Translucenst Blue
	1	Translucnet Purple
	1	Tri-burst
	11	Washed Cherry
	2	Washed Ice Tea
	14	Unknown

A Quote from Dave Carpenter:

The great thing about Cloud Nines is that they are built with “Historic Spec Woods”. I had Gibson build many variations of Chambered Les Pauls before the Cloud Nine series, but I could never get them to use Historic Spec Woods. The Cloud Nine run would not have been this successful or as great if the guitar would have been built to an exact Historic appearance and then not used Historic Spec Woods. For me and the two other great dealers, it was all about the woods. I worked for a long time to bring about the Cloud Nine series of guitars for my good friend Tom Ivory. Tom has real back trouble and wanted a great Gibson guitar that looked and felt in his hands like the best of the 59 Reissues he had played, just less weight. Initially I had ideas about how we might chamber them, but Mike McGuire said trust me. He said that he had done a lot of R&D and knew just what to do. Mike built the prototype and then myself, Dave Rogers and Steve Mesple flew out to play it and we were greatly impressed. I am so glad to see so many other people enjoying this great guitar series. It is very gratifying.

* Nashville July 2004 * Dan (Cloud 9 admin), Mike McGuire, Johnny A, Chris (past JAR admin)

Check out the new Stinger Guitar Page

"I'd rather listen to John Lee Hooker play one note rather than those tasmanian devils play a gazillion ones in the key of 'stupid'..."Carlos Santana