Gibson Songwriter Recording Artist HiFi DNA Rosewood Burst Left-Handed

Gibson Songwriter Recording Artist Left-Handed is a professional acoustic guitar designed for live performance and studio recording, featuring a modern square-shoulder dreadnought body and tonal characteristics inspired by Gibson’s classic acoustic guitars. It is handcrafted in Bozeman, Montana, with a thermally aged solid Sitka spruce top and rosewood back and sides.

Construction and Tonewoods
Solid rosewood back and sides
Thermally aged solid Sitka spruce top
Traditional scalloped Wide X bracing
Songwriter body shape
Gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish
Multi-ply top and back binding with single-ply fretboard and headstock binding
Custom Line tortoise pickguard
Wide abalone rosette

Neck and Fingerboard
Mahogany neck with Round profile
Ebony fingerboard
20 standard frets
Fingerboard radius: 304.8 mm / 12"
Scale length: 647.7 mm / 25.5"
Bone nut
Nut width: 43.82 mm / 1.73"
Mother-of-pearl Diamond Eye inlays
Compound dovetail neck-to-body joint with hot hide glue
Adjustable truss rod

Electronics – Baggs HiFi DNA
Baggs HiFi DNA pickup and preamp system
Two sensors mounted on the internal bridge plate
Each sensor uses its own dedicated custom-voiced Class A studio-quality preamp
Dual sensors are blended for optimized output
Lightweight, larger, flexible and omnidirectional sensors
Greater sensitivity to soundboard movement
Captures dynamics, warmth, nuance, string detail and body resonance
Preserves the guitar’s dynamic range from light fingerstyle to heavy strumming
Similar gain-before-feedback to under-saddle pickup systems
Soundhole-mounted volume and tone controls
1/4" output jack

Bridge and Hardware
Ebony belly-up bridge with Mother-of-pearl Arrow inlays
Bone saddle
TUSQ bridge pins
Gold hardware
Grover open-back tuning machines
Gold-plated tuners
Endpin jack
2-ply black truss rod cover
Gibson logo and crown in mother of pearl on the headstock

Other
Left-handed model
Includes Gibson hardshell case
String gauge: .012, .016, .024, .032, .042, .053
Model: MCSSSWRAHFRBL