Gibson was constantly tweaking the Firebird design during the 1960s, and the Platypus variant comes from the epicenter of that trial-and-error period ...
The guitar was an important transitional build as it tampered with the model designed to rival the Stratocaster ...
Ask your local Gibson history expert about the Platypus ... Grover Rotomatics as opposed to the reversed six-in-line headstock with banjo tuners more commonly found on the Firebird.
Credit: Courtesy Gibson It was Gibson's first neck-through design, with reverse headstocks and banjo-style tuners ... a reverse body with a non-reverse headstock for the first time, and the ...
Enthusiasts of vintage electric guitars might well lay an egg at this news, because Gibson has brought the Platypus Firebird back from extinction, with the transitional 1965 ‘bird resplendent its ...