Gibson Custom Shop Antique Natural 1957 Mahogany Futura Electric Guitar & Hardshell Case

The Futura closely resembles the modern Explorer, but had a somewhat different, more angular body shape and a split V headstock design that was used on only a handful of the earliest Explorers before they transitioned to the scimitar-shaped headstock that the model is known for today. The Futura was never actually released in the late 1950s, with only a handful of prototypes made in that era, and only a few ever making it out into the wild, making them exceptionally rare, surpassed in rarity only by the Moderne, of which no authentic 50s-era examples have ever been located and authenticated. • MFSKU 57MFANVOGH1 • UPC 711106178707