Interesting guitars...

My Gibson Q100 is officially 'interesting'!

I've never come across another Q100, but Jon Piercy pointed me in the direction of this website, on which a guy describes his Q4000 and asks for more information. I wrote a couple of paragraphs on mine, which you can read here.

I also wrote to the Gibson historian, John Ellis. He was very helpful, but unfortunately couldn't tell me much more than I already knew:

"The Q-100 was produced 1985-86. I have no specs on body wood, however, the fingerboard is ebony, pickup-Dirty Fingers,there was a case made for it then; we do not release production totals.

"I have no records pertaining to how "Q" was decided upon. I don't have the US MSRP here, however, I believe it was in the $1299 range. Your serial number does indicate a 1985 model, I have no literature or photos of this model available; as I recall, the case was not internally form-fitted.

"Also, your Explorer serial number indicates a 1987 model."

Still nice to get a reply from a big company though!