CR76001
Owned by Alan in CA
Prev. owned by Dan in MO (Cloud 9 admin) .
This is a very special custom ordered 57 Cloud 9.
It has a rare one-piece top in natural finish and a medium dark back (walnut colored)
Made to resemble all the 57 Gold tops out there that had the top stripped and a clear coat applied.
It is getting pretty hard to find a nice piece of maple wide enough to do a one piece top.
The idea behind the one piece top is that the Cloud 9 is hollow like an acoustic and gets it's tone properties from the chamber and the vibration of the top. The other Cloud 9's have a 2 piece top where the wood is glued in a center seam. Without the seam, there is natural wood fibers that run from edge to edge unbroken by a glue seam. This tends to make the top more similar to an acoustic than the other Cloud 9's. The acoustic sound from this Cloud 9 is very loud but retains all the qualities of the other Cloud 9's.
Thank you to everyone at Wildwood and Rick, Phillip, Edwin, Steve, and all the others at the Gibson Custom Shop for extra effort in this fine instrument.
A special thanks to Steve Domenico for the photographs.
Everyone that has played it says the same first word...."WOW!"
Purchased from:
804 Main Street
Louisville, CO 80027
303-665-7733
303-665-7744 (fax)