GIBSON The Orville Mandolin Description
- three-point F-style body, solid black spruce top from Morningside Cemetery where Orville Gibson is buried, solid one-piece quilted maple back, figured maple sides, two unbound f-holes, tone bar bracing, three ply top and back binding, rounded profile figured maple neck, 29-fret single-ply bound ebony fingerboard with Orvillesque star and crescent/vine inlays, single-ply-bound scroll-style headstock with star and floral vine inlays, four-per-side gold Arrow-Point Waverly tuners with inlaid Handel buttons, adj. ebony bridge, gold engraved tailpiece, raised three-ply-bound tortoise pickguard with inlays and Orville Gibson portrait and signature, available in Vintage Autumn Amber nitrocellulose lacquer finish, 13 29/32 in. scale, new fall 2008.