{"id":245961,"date":"2025-10-28T16:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/245961\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:16:15","slug":"its-like-the-hummingbird-only-evil-kirk-hammetts-new-custom-shop-signature-raven-dresses-up-the-classic-gibson-acoustic-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/245961\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s like the Hummingbird only evil\u201d: Kirk Hammett\u2019s new Custom Shop signature Raven dresses up the classic Gibson acoustic for Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gibson and Kirk Hammett<\/a> have expanded their signature guitar<\/a> lineup with a seasonal update on the classic Hummingbird acoustic guitar<\/a> that channels Edgar Allan Poe at his most morbid. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s called the Raven, and it is really rare bird. They are only making 100 of these, and they come hot out of the Gibson Custom Shop at Bozeman, Montana, in a custom black guitar case<\/a> with a raven skull inlay, foreshadowing the necro mother of pearl headstock inlay on the guitar itself.<\/p>\n

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Fundamentally this is a Hummingbird and we won\u2019t be told any differently. It has the solid Sitka spruce top, mahogany on the back and sides.<\/p>\n

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Scramble around for it in the dark and you will feel something \u2013 a shape in the gloom \u2013 quite familiar, square shoulders, a dreadnought-sized body. But it if is a Hummingbird, well, this one was found some way down the Left Hand Path.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like the Hummingbird only evil. Of course, rosewood would have been too bright for a guitar like this. Hammett\u2019s Raven swaps that out for ebony, and we have star inlays here. There is also a double pickguard and tailpiece accent that\u2019s just too cool. The mahogany neck has a rounded profile \u2013 happy days for chord work.<\/p>\n

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The Metallica<\/a> lead guitarist is reported to have been heavily involved in its design, and it shows. As we all know, Hammett is a horror movie fanatic. His number one ESP signature model features graphics from The Mummy (not the Brendan Fraser one, the original from 1932 featuring Boris Karloff). Pre-code horror is a theme on his electric guitars.<\/p>\n

He also has ESP signature models with White Zombie and Bride Of Frankenstein graphics. This approach would not have worked on an guitar like the Raven.<\/p>\n

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Again, we\u2019re working with Hummingbird DNA. But the aesthetic is very on brand with Roger Corman\u2019s The Raven, Boris Karloff and Vincent Price and all that. Play some spooky chords on it.<\/p>\n

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Or lean into the considerable lung power from its build \u2013 that scalloped advanced X-bracing under the spruce top \u2013 and hit an open G chord with gusto. When you do you\u2019ll appreciate some more of Hammett\u2019s custom appointments.<\/p>\n

This has a flatter fingerboard radius than your common or garden variety Hummingbird, 16\u201d as opposed to the Gibson standard 12\u201d. It\u2019ll be a good player. Like the Hummingbird it has a 24.75\u201d scale length.<\/p>\n

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Other details worth noting include the 43.82mm nut width (Graph Tech TUSQ), the nickel Rotomatic tuners with kidney bean-style buttons, the compound radius dovetail neck joint, and the LR Baggs Element VTC +4 acoustic guitar pickup<\/a> and preamp system, with its controls nested in the soundhole. Lovely.<\/p>\n

Priced \u00a34,399\/$4,999, the Kirk Hammett Raven is available now. See Gibson<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gibson and Kirk Hammett have expanded their signature guitar lineup with a seasonal update on the classic Hummingbird…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-245961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}