A Gibson ES-340 Blonde electric guitar with OHSC, 1969, American made, serial number 563266 stamped to rear of headstock, 'Orange Oval' printed maker's label to interior inscribed with model and serial numbers, six nickel 'Kluson Deluxe' machine heads, bound laminated maple body and three-piece maple neck, East Indian rosewood fretboard with Mother-of-pearl block inlays, mother-of-pearl Gibson logo and 'Rose' inlay, holly headstock veneer, chrome plated Tune-o-Matic bridge, chrome plated trapeze tailpiece, two humbucking pickups, two volume controls, two tone controls, seventeen degree headstock angle, original hard case with crushed velvet interior, acquired on 8 December 1994, This instrument differs from the ES-335 in its wiring - it can be used in stereo.' Kirk Pengilly. Provenance: Private Collection of Mr Kirk Pengilly, Sydney, acquired 8 December 1994
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- Maple - Maple, native to North America, is a dense heavy timber from light to yellow-brown in colour. It has very little distincive graining unless it is one of the variants such as birds-eye maple or burr maple, so was not used extensively for furniture in 18th and 19th century, where cabinetmakers and designers preferred timbers with more distinctive features such as mahogany, walnut, rosewood and oak.
Birds-eye maple has a seres of small spots linked by undulating lines in the grain, is highly sough and is used as a decorative veneer. Burr maple has larger and irregular grain swirls than birds-eye maple.
- Rosewood - A dense timber that varies in shade to very light brown to almost black. When rosewood is cut and sanded the colour of the timber will turn black, and after polishing and exposure to daylight, the surface will gradually lighten over time to light brown with black streaks.
The name comes from the odour emanating from the timber when it is planed, sanded or cut.
Rosewood was very popular for use in Victorian furniture in the second half of the 19th century, and at that time most of the rosewood was imported from Brazil. However it also grows in India and Indonesia.
It is used in the sold for chairs and table legs, but for carcase furniture such as side cabinets and bookcases, and for table tops it is always used as a veneer.
- Mother-Of-Pearl - Mother-of-pearl, technical name "nacre", is the inner layer of a sea shell. The iridescent colours and strength of this material were widely used in the nineteenth century as an inlay in jewellery, furniture, (especially papier mache furniture) and musical instruments.
In the early 1900s it was used to make pearl buttons. Mother-of-pearl is a soft material that is easily cut or engraved.
Nowadays it is a by-product of the oyster, freshwater pearl mussel and abalone industries.
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