1969 Gibson Crest previously owned by Kenney Jones, (Used)

The 1969 Gibson Crest is a fully hollow thinline electric guitar with top, back, and sides constructed from Brazilian rosewood. The neck is set and fitted with a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard carrying 22 frets and mother-of-pearl block inlays, with a scale length of 24.75 inches and a nut width near 1.687 inches. The instrument features triple binding around the top and back and bound F-holes consistent with Gibson’s Crest appointments of the period.

Electronics comprise two floating mini-humbucking “Johnny Smith” style pickups mounted on L-brackets, each with individual volume and tone controls and a three-way selector. The bridge is a rosewood-based Tune-O-Matic style, and the tailpiece is a gold-plated trapeze with rosewood inserts; hardware includes gold-finished knobs, gold-plated tuners, and multi-ply binding on the pickguard and body edges. The construction is very lightweight due to the fully hollow design.

This example is all original and retains its Brazilian rosewood appointments, and it was previously owned by Kenney Jones (The Who, Small Faces). The combination of original period hardware, Brazilian rosewood construction, and documented provenance gives this instrument the characteristics associated with late-1960s Gibson Crest guitars.