Becoming famous as "The Workhorse" all the way back in 1942, Gibson's J-45 today pens a new chapter of that workman legacy with the Gibson J-45 Studio Rosewood. This rough-and-ready acoustic carries with it generations of fine Gibson designs alongside new, exciting features. Wrapping it all up in that classy Gibson style, this is an acoustic primed for every stage of creativity.

Hailing from Gibson's Bozeman, Montana acoustic factory, the J-45 Studio Rosewood is built with decades of Gibson acoustic know-how. The J-45 Studio Rosewood is hand-crafted and plays with all the excitement of the J-45s to precede it. All-solid tonewood construction and a gloss nitrocellulose lacquer top finish makes this guitar special inside and out for a knockout of an acoustic. Traditional hand-scalloped X-bracing makes an appearance on this J-45 to ensure a balanced and concise tonal palette.

The J-45 Studio Rosewood starts out easily with a solid Sitka spruce top finished in gloss nitrocellulose lacquer. Meeting the brightness of the Sitka spruce, this J-45's rosewood back and sides contributes a warm tone with a rich bass response and chiming treble overtones. This construction contrasts Gibson's traditional mahogany-body J-45s and results in this Studio model really coming into its own. The J-45 Studio's full-body depth delivers the projection and volume expected from a round-shoulder acoustic of this caliber.

This exciting palette of wood tones is matched with a satin-finished utile neck. The guitar, taking an Advance Response profile, plays seamlessly from lower to higher registers and inspires lengthy playing sessions. Sitting somewhere in the middle of Gibson's lineup of acoustic neck profiles, the J-45 Studio Rosewood's neck is distinctly not too thin and not too thick.

Rosewood appears again on this Studio model alongside its back and sides, taking the role of the fingerboard. This rosewood board, lined with twenty standard-sized frets, inspires smooth fretting and nimble playing for all types of acoustic music. Mother-of-pearl dot inlays punctuate the rosewood while a sixteen-inch radius lays out for a flat response and feel.

If you're a fan of those smaller appointments that elevate the total experience, just take stock of the J-45 Studio Rosewood's GraphTech TUSQ nut, Grover Rotomatic tuning machines, and multi and single-ply body binding. These features, adding up to an impressive visual and tangible sum, make the J-45 Studio Rosewood a knockout on every level. For the performers out there, this Gibson features an L.R. Baggs Element Bronze under-saddle pickup system that seamlessly translates its acoustic sounds to the stage. Once off the stage, this J-45 travels safely with an included Gibson hardshell case.

Once a workhorse, always a workhorse, right?

• All-solid tonewood construction from Bozeman, Montana
• Round shoulder Gibson J-45 full-depth body
• Solid Sitka spruce top with hand-scalloped X-Bracing pattern
• Multi-ply top and single-ply back body binding
• Satin-finished solid rosewood back and sides construction
• Gloss nitrocellulose lacquer top finish
• Satin-finished utile neck in Advance Response profile
• Rosewood fingerboard with twenty-frets and Mother-of-Pearl dot inlays
• Sixteen-inch fingerboard radius
• GraphTech TUSQ nut and TUSQ saddle
• Grover Rotomatic tuning machines
• Onboard L.R. Baggs Element Bronze electronics system
• Gibson hardshell case included