Used Gibson Sonex 180 Deluxe in Good condition, featuring Gibson’s higher-gain Velvet Brick pick ups. The original machine heads have been replaced by the far superior Schaller M6, all other parts are completly original.

These are all odd ducks, for sure, but plenty of players have rediscovered them over the years, and found them to be eminently playable instruments, and often good value on the used market. If you’re still searching for your quota of quirk, check them out if you ever get the chance

The Sonex guitars were a range of Gibsons launched in 1980. They were made from a material called Resonwood, and manufactured with Multi-phonic body construction.

They replaced the Marauder and S-1 guitars. Like these two instruments, the Sonex took its styling from the Les Paul guitars that had been popular for the previous decades, but using Resonwood instead of mahogany, bolt-on necks instead of set (glued-in) necks, and far less ornamentation

The Sonex Multi-phonic™ body is composed of Resonwood surrounding an inner tone wood core. The tone wood core not only acts as the anchor point for the neck, it also adds acoustic resonance and exceptional body resilience. The Sonex body is so resilient, that it's structural properties survived extreme testing in temperatures ranging from 40° below to 180°F.

Meaning the Resonwood was a coating used on a solid , usually mahogany body.

There were four guitar models to choose from in the Sonex Series, all with the Gibson single cutaway design. The Sonex-180 Deluxe featured a rosewood, dot inlayed fingerboard and adjustable exposed coil high output Sonex Humbuckers. All came with a three-position pick-up selector switch, Tune-0-Matic Bridge', stop bar tailpiece and volume/tone control speed knobs.

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