1995 Gibson L-5 Wes Montgomery, Robert Yelin Collection. UNRESERVED. Serial#: 91175804. In the span of just a few years in the late 1950s and early 1960s, jazz legend Wes Montgomery was able forge a body of work that is still referred to today as the most important and influential of any music ever recorded by a jazz artist. Montgomery's mastery of the guitar is well-documented, and the enormous impact on his peers is recognized time and time again, from Pat Metheny to George Benson to Joe Satriani, all of whom claim Montgomery as the virtuoso who inspired them to reach new heights.

The Wes Montgomery L-5 built today by Gibson Custom is constructed to the same specifications as the instrument used by Montgomery in the 1960s. Today's Wes Montgomery model features a body crafted with a high-grade spruce top, and high-grade maple back and sides. The body is adorned with multi-ply black and white binding on both the top and back, with single-ply white binding around the f-holes. The gold hardware includes an ABR-1 bridge with a base made from ebony, and Gibson's period-correct L-5 tailpiece. The 25-1/2" scale length neck is a five-piece neck made primarily from high-grade maple, with two streamers made from high-grade walnut, resulting in one of the most stunning neck designs in the history of Gibson Custom. The eye-catching neck is topped by a 20-fret ebony fingerboard with pearl block inlays and multi-ply black and white binding, then hand-fitted with Gibson's traditional ES-rounded neck profile. The single pickup is Gibson's legendary '57 Classic, which faithfully captures the unique and subtle variations between coil windings of the original PAF humbuckers of the late 1950s. Other appointments include Gibson's traditional flower pot inlay on the headstock and Schaller M6 tuners.

VG+; a little bit of cracking on pickguard, very minor wear, a bit of odd finish wear (dulling) on the back