Gibson salutes Elvis Presley with two new signature acoustic guitars

The Elvis SJ-200 and Elvis Dove models are both based on acoustics Presley used extensively onstage, and boast LR Baggs electronics.

Gibson has tipped its cap to the one and only Elvis Presley with two new signature acoustic guitars, the Elvis SJ-200 and Elvis Dove. Based on two of Elvis’s personal favorites, the new signature guitars both feature a maple body with a sitka spruce top and maple back and sides.

Both acoustics are also graced with a stripped-down ebony finish, and feature an LR Baggs VTC under-saddle piezo pickup and preamp with soundhole-mounted volume and tone controls.

The SJ-200 is based on an acoustic that was given to Presley as a gift at a recording session at RCA Studio B in Nashville in the mid ’60s. The King would go on to use the guitar extensively onstage, and later gifted it to his friend Marty Lacker at Graceland in 1976.

It boasts a two-piece maple neck with an Indian rosewood fretboard sporting 20 standard frets and mother of pearl graduated crown inlays.