Gibson L6 S custom 1970‘s vintage 
Serial Number 18861x made in USA
2,5 millimeter action strings 12" fret
3,950 Kilogram
75% frets
09.2025 the guitar was set up by LRM lutherie
2 Gibson USA Bill Laurence Humbuckers ( rare )
A small, filled hole had been made by a previous owner. The guitar shows nice vintage wear for its 40 years.
Given its age, the serial number is visible; see photo. With this rare Gibson, you have the opportunity to acquire a truly vintage item for a low price.
You can try this guitar in our shop: (upon request) Guitar's Cafe, rue de Bourg 11, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland www.guitarscafe.com
Dual Bill Lawrence Gibson USA “super” humbuckers for killer vintage output and clarity.
To ensure that the extraordinary Bill Laurence pickups are of the highest quality, the electronics have been reworked.
The tailpiece and bridge of the time had become unstable and were replaced with a newer Gibson bridge and Gibson bridge, which gives the guitar full playability.
A junction pickguard between the two pickups was made by a custom luthier so that the modifications of the time in the wood were hidden, then Bill Laurence pickups were fitted so that the guitar was perfect.
This Gibson L6 S offers sound palettes from SG to Les Paul with almost unlimited combinations for this reason this type of guitar was used by several Guitar Heroes
Musicians playing the L6-S Mike Oldfield Prince (deluxe) Keith Richards Carlos Santana Paul Stanley Massimo Morante...
A Gibson L6-S in the stunning All Natural finish. Produced between 1974 and 1979, the Midnight Special is the “bastard sibling” of the Bill Lawrence-designed L6-S.
Carlos Santana started playing the L6-S in 1974 - he heaped praise upon it in the November '74 issue of Guitar Player magazine, and by 1975 was on the cover of the Gibson solid-body catalogue, and further magazine adverts as an endorsee.
The Gibson L6-S solid-body electric guitar was manufactured in the USA from 1973 to 1979, was one of the first modern instruments from the traditional manufacturer and was played by greats such as Al Di Meola, Pat Martino and Carlos Santana.
Paul Stanley used a Gibson L6 S in 1974-1975 until 1978
This particular example is a true player's guitar and a collector’s gem, especially for fans of KISS and '70s rock. Paul Stanley was gifted several of these guitars by Gibson in late 1974 as part of an early sponsorship arranged by Casablanca Records exec Larry Harris  a quiet but significant endorsement deal that predated KISS’s major breakout. Stanley’s white sparkle Midnight Special became a regular onstage companion during the band's 1974–75 tour. While most fans recognize that iconic version, few realize how few of these guitars were ever made. 
Santana was and still is a very open-minded musician. Even back then, he had a few Fenders in his closet, as well as various SGs equipped with P90 pickups or humbuckers. Starting with "Santana III" (1971), he switched to the Les Paul. It was during this time that he created his greatest works: "Caravanserai" (1972), "Love Devotion Surrender" (1973) with John McLaughlin (who also played a Gibson L5S at the time), "Welcome" (1973), and "Illuminations" (1974) with Alice Coltrane. I am absolutely convinced of his enthusiasm. On the album "Borboletta" (1974), Carlos Santana could be heard with his new L6-S, and the following year, he was the cover model for the new Gibson catalog and the associated advertising campaign. And in this respect, Gibson had indeed done a great job, because from 1974 onwards, other big names like Al Di Meola, Pat Martino, John McLaughlin, Keith Richards, Paul Stanley, Mike Oldfield, Dave Davies of the Kinks, Brad Delp of Boston, Martha Davis of the Motels, Angus Young of AC/DC, Josh Hager of Devo and Prince suddenly appeared with this instrument.
The Gibson L6S (usually Gibson L6-S, or L6 solid) launched in 1973 as the companies first all-maple solid body electric guitar. It also featured a 24 fret two-octave neck. It shipped throughout the 1970s and into the early 1980s, with a little over 18000 instruments produced in total; certainly one of the most successful of Gibson's seventies guitars. The L6-S was the epitome of Norlin-era Gibson output. The use of maple bodies, necks and fretboards, usually with just a simple clear coat finish, made for an instrument quite distinct from earlier guitars, both visually and tonally. A real contrast to the mahogany and rosewood guitars of the fifties and sixties, with their Sunburst, Cherry or Walnut finishes. Around a third of L6-S (Custom) guitars were black with an ebony fretboard, still with a maple body and neck. Other finishes did exist (including a very fetching Cherry Sunburst) but were produced in vastly lower numbers.
Early L6-S examples were built at Gibson's famous Kalamazoo plant, though by the mid 1970s, the L6S was being produced at Gibson's second plant, the newly opened facility at Nashville. Initially the guitar was simply designated L6-S, though with the addition of two new models (1974s Midnight Special and 1975s L6-S Deluxe) the original L6-S became the L6-S Custom.
The Midnight Special and L6-S Deluxe were aimed at a lower price point, using alder as a body wood, slightly simpler electronics and (in the case of the Midnight Special) a bolt-on neck. Neither were anything like as successful (commercially) as the L6-S Custom.
Gibson L6-S design and development
The Gibson L6-S was designed in 1972 by then Gibson employee Bill Lawrence. The remit was to create a guitar with as varied an array of sounds as possible, without overly-complicated electronics, and something that could compete with Fenders six string range. Bill Lawrence explains:
In 1972, I was asked to design a multi-sound system for the SG Standard. This didn't make any sense to me, and after several meetings with marketing, I convinced them to introduce a completely new solid-body that offered a wide variety of different sounds. I was given a free hand as long as I observed a set production cost limit. In order to stay within that limit, I had to make use of their existing hardware, including pickup covers, and the champfered body contours I wanted were not in the budget either. Given a mere $25 more to work with, I could have made the guitar to my specs. Also, I had designed a beautiful three post lightweight bridge made of hardened stainless steel that could be converted into a trem and a two 3 position toggle switches for nine different sounds. The first 3 position switch was a pickup selector while the second was a sound selector -- position one was for Les Paul , position two for Strat, and position three for Tele sound.
 
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la guitare a été réglée par LRM lutherie
Un petit trou rebouché avait été fait par un ancien propriétaire. 
La guitare a une belle usure vintage pour ses 40 ans.
vu l'âge le numéro de série est visible, voir photo.
Avec cette Gibson rare, vous avez la possibilité d'acquérir une vraie vintage pour un petit prix.
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