NAMM 2016: Gibson Memphis unveils 2016 electric guitar range

NAMM 2016: While Gibson's core USA range announcements can sometimes prove controversial, the Memphis division's new lines of hollowbodies and semi-hollows rarely provoke anything other than pure desire, and 2016 is no different.

Most notable among this year's 16-strong line-up are enhanced period-correct features on Historic models (hide glue, quarter sawn Adirondack bracing), plus improvements to Core models (titanium saddles, redesigned ES-335 neck profiles).

What's more, the guitar in the centre of the image above looks to be what Gibson has called "an entirely new jazz guitar"… but the company has yet to release a name or specs, so more on that as we have it.

Click through the gallery for a closer look at Gibson Memphis's new guitars.

• Body: Classic semi-hollow construction more compact dimensions
• Fingerboard: With black binding and simple dot inlays
• Neck: One-piece maple neck
• Nut: Black Corian nut
• Pickups: 57 Classic and Super 57 humbuckers
• Controls: Traditional control section
• Finish: High-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer

• Body: Classic semi-hollow construction with solid center block
• Fingerboard: Black binding with simple dot inlays
• Neck: One-piece maple neck
• Nut: Black Corian nut
• Pickups: 57 Classic and Super 57 humbuckers
• Controls: Traditional control section
• Finish: High-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer

• Body: Classic ES-335 shape to smaller dimensions
• Fingerboard: Rosewood with small block inlays
• Neck: Redesigned dimensions for improved strength and comfortable feel
• Truss rod: Historic truss rod
• Pickups: Burstbucker 1 & 2
• Bridge: ABR-1 bridge with titanium saddles
• Tailpiece: Locking stopbar
• Finish: Satin lacquer finish

• Body: Les Paul styling meets semi-acoustic ES-335 construction
• Fingerboard: Rosewood with trapezoidal Les Paul inlays
• Fingerboard binding: Rolled black binding for superb playing comfort
• Truss rod: Historic truss rod
• Pickups: 57 Classic & Super 57 humbuckers
• Nut: Black Corian
• Finish: High-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer in two new colours (Wine Red and Ginger Burst)

• Body: Classic semi-hollow construction with solid center block
• Fingerboard: Rosewood with small block inlays
• Neck: Redesigned dimensions for improved strength
• Truss rod: Historic truss rod
• Pickups: Burstbucker 1 & 2
• Bridge: TOM-1 with titanium saddles
• Tailpiece: Locking stopbar
• Finish: Soft satin finish

• Body: Classic ES-335 shape redrawn to smaller dimensions
• Fingerboard: Rosewood with small block inlays
• Neck: Redesigned dimensions for improved strength and playabilty
• Truss rod: Historic truss rod
• Pickups: Burstbucker 1 & 2
• Bridge: ABR-1 with titanium saddles
• Tailpiece: Locking stopbar
• Finish: High-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer

• Body: New Adirondack spruce top bracing
• Fingerboard: Rosewood with trapezoidal Les Paul inlays
• Fingerboard binding: Rolled for superb playing comfort
• Truss rod: Historic truss rod
• Pickups: MHS humbuckers
• Bridge: ABR-1 with titanium saddles
• Finish: High-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer in two new colours (Ebony and Faded Lightburst)

• Body: Classic semi-hollow construction with solid center block
• Fingerboard: Rosewood with small block inlays
• Neck: Redesigned dimensions for improved strength and feel
• Truss rod: Historic truss rod
• Pickups: Burstbucker 1 & 2
• Bridge: ABR-1 with titanium saddles
• Tailpiece: Locking stopbar
• Finish: High-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer in more accurate vintage colors

• Body woods: Beautifully figured maple back and sides
• Fingerboard: Rosewood with small block inlays
• Neck: Redesigned for improved strength and playabilty
• Truss rod: Historic truss rod
• Pickups: Burstbucker 1 & 2
• Bridge: ABR-1 with titanium saddles
• Tailpiece: Locking stopbar
• Finish: High-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer

• Body: Correct '63 shape with narrower cutaway horns
• Fingerboard: Bound rosewood with block inlays
• Potentiometers: Matched 550k potentiometers
• Hot hide glue: Historic body and neck construction
• Truss rod: Tubeless Historic truss rod
• Pickups: MHS humbuckers
• Frets: Period-correct .100" x .045" fret wire
• Finish: VOS nitrocellulose lacquer

• Body: Correct '58 shape with "Mickey Mouse ears"
• Fingerboard: Unbound rosewood with dot inlays
• Potentiometers: Matched 550k potentiometers
• Construction: Historic body and neck construction
• Truss rod: Tubeless Historic truss rod
• Pickups: MHS humbuckers
• Frets: Period-correct .100" x .045" fret wire
• Finish: VOS for a gently aged look

• Body: The classic fully-hollow single-cutaway design
• Fingerboard: Rosewood with split-parallelogram inlays
• Figured woods: Figured maple top and back
• Fingerboard binding: Rolled for superb playing comfort
• Truss rod: Historic truss rod
• Pickups: Two 57 Classic humbuckers
• Bridge: ABR-1 with titanium saddles
• Finish: High-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer

• Body: The classic fully-hollow single-cutaway design
• Fingerboard inlays: Rosewood with split-parallelogram inlays
• Construction: Neck joint and top braces attached with hot hide glue
• Fingerboard binding: Rolled for superb playing comfort
• Truss rod: Historic truss rod
• Pickups: Two MHS humbuckers
• Finish: VOS treated nitrocellulose lacquer

• Body: Correct '59 shape with "Mickey Mouse ears"
• Fingerboard: Bound rosewood with dot inlays
• Potentiometers: Matched 550k potentiometers
• Construction: Historic body and neck construction
• Truss rod: Tubeless Historic truss rod
• Pickups: MHS humbuckers
• Frets: Period-correct .100" x .045" fret wire
• Finish: VOS for a gently aged look

• No f-holes: Classic ES-355 style body but without f-holes
• Finish: Elegant high-gloss Ebony
• Hardware: Gold-plated throughout
• Binding: Multi-ply body binding
• Inlays: Mother-of-pearl block inlays
• Tone switch: Six-position Varitone tone network
• Tailpiece: TP-6 fine-tuning tailpiece
• Pickups: 490R and 490T humbuckers

• Body: ES-LP semi-solid hybrid design
• Finish: High-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer
• Hardware: A bass stopbar tailpiece and Tune-o-matic bridge
• Tuners: Hipshot Ultralite tuners
• Fingerboard: Rosewood with pearloid trapezoid inlays
• Nut: Genuine bone
• Neck: Short-scale neck with rolled binding
• Pickups: Special design MHS Bass Humbuckers