1980 Gibson Super 400 CES (COO1) Sunburst, Robert Yelin Collection. UNRESERVED. Serial#: 8080017. The Gibson "Super 400" is a high-end carved solid wood archtop guitar. The largest, fanciest- adorned, and highest-priced factory built archtop / hollowbody guitar in the Gibson portfolio. A highly-influential model which inspired many other master luthiers, it was first sold in 1934 and named for its $400 price, as was the custom for Gibson guitars during that era of the company. There have been slight variations on the model since its inception, and this specific example shows Gibson's desire to embrace the 1950s desire for electric instruments, thus renaming the guitar the Cutaway Electric Spanish (CES).

This electric version of the famed Super 400 features great quilted Maple in a high-luster Sunburst finish. The eye-catching neck is topped by a 20-fret ebony fingerboard with pearl block inlays and multi-ply black and white binding, which was then hand-fitted with Gibson's traditional ES-rounded neck profile. The pickups are a pair of Gibson's legendary '57 Classics, which faithfully capture the unique and subtle variations between coil windings of the original PAF humbuckers of the late 1950s, delivering a warm and full tone with a balanced response. Other appointments include Gibson's traditional five-piece split diamond motif inlay on the headstock and Schaller M6 tuners.

VG; corrosion and wear on pickup covers, corrosion on one of the saddle adjustment wheels, rust on pickguard mount bracket, volume control wear, some type of disfigurement of pickguard