Recently, I have gotten back into the swing of playing the guitar. As you may or may not know, I have a 1985 Gibson Futura that I have played for years. I have had my doubts as to whether it was a genuine instrument or not. I just emailed Gibson early this week with pictures to determine its authenticity. I would have bet strongly that it was a fake. I was wrong. I have got myself a genuine Gibson Futura made on October 23rd, 1985 in Nashville, TN.
It is an extremely rare guitar. The only place that I can find any information about the guitar is a brief description in the Gibson Blue Book only, describing it as a can-opener style guitar.
Edit: More information from Gibson: The Futura was a model shown in the catalogs from 1982-84 and had 2 humbuckers with no visible polepieces, 2 volume knobs and one master tone knob, 3 way toggle switch, stopbar tailpiece and Tune-o-matic bridge, rosewood fingerboard, dot inlays and gold plated hardware. Since the serial number on your guitar indicates 1985 I would assume this is one of the last ones made.
Now, on to my new acquisition. I was out and about in Rockford and decided to stop and look at acoustic guitars. Jeff Bickmeier always gets me excited about playing every time we get together, so I thought I would give it a shot. I really had no intention of getting a guitar. I noodled around a few, and found one that I loved that didn't break the bank. It is a beautiful guitar with great sound and electronics for when I make it big and want to play on stage. Everyone, meet the
Ibanez AEF37ETCS.
I've been having a ball playing, and am taking lessons starting very shortly.