{"id":7896132681893,"title":"Gibson Hand Signed Chet Atkins Pickguard","handle":"hand-signed-chet-atkins-pickguard","description":"\u003cp\u003eOk all you Gibson \/ Chet Atkins fans. check this out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI have one of 7 bound tortoise pickguards hand signed by Chet Atkins himself for the Gibson Custom Shop Super 4000 guitar. These pickguards and other gibson parts (which I will list soon) were purchased at a container auction in Nashville. The container was owned by non other than \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRick Gembar, who took the helm as Gibson \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCustom Shop General Manager in 1993. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe Chet Atkins Super 4000 was the last guitar Chet designed for Gibson before his passing in 2001. 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These pickguards and other gibson parts (which I will list soon) were purchased at a container auction in Nashville. The container was owned by non other than \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRick Gembar, who took the helm as Gibson \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCustom Shop General Manager in 1993. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe Chet Atkins Super 4000 was the last guitar Chet designed for Gibson before his passing in 2001. The guitars are as rare as hens teeth, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eapparently only 20-25 were ever made. And all had hand signed pickguards in gold and silver pens. 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