Talk:Gibson Nighthawk

Photo
...I realize this is pretty trivial, but the photo caption says "...Nighthawk Custom...", yet it exactly matches the description of the "Nighthawk Standard". That said, everything I know about this guitar is from this article, so I leave it to someone else to check the facts. Thanks! --unsigned comment

It's my guitar photo. I confirm it's a custom, with the color option "transluscent amber" as described in the custom. I'm not sure, but i think the Standard doesn't exist with 3 pickups and floyd rose. --unsigned comment

Sorry to disillusion you, man, but that's a Standard. The terms Custom, Standard and Special refer to cosmetics only, not to the number of pickups or whether or not it has a Floyd Rose. I also have a Standard, identical to the one in the picture. The description under "Regular Models" is correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Igbert (talk • contribs) 15:16, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

I've replaced that picture with a better one (taken straight on rather than from a funny angle, no ugly flash reflection, etc.). This one is an original Nighthawk ST3 from the first year of production (1993). --Craig418 (talk) 13:07, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Push/pull knob
“...the revolutionary push/pull tone knob...”

o_O “Revolutionary”? The Nighthawk was introduced in 1993, right? My Westone Spectrum ST from 1985 has a push/pull coil-split tone knob. The Spectrum GT and SX models had two push/pull pots. How is a push/pull coil-split tone knob on a 1993 guitar “revolutionary”? --Malirath (talk) 22:33, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Sounds a little like a commercial: "... A figured maple top, mahogany body, rosewood fingerboard and deluxe details combine to make the 2009 Nighthawk a true collector’s item" --unsigned comment

Also, it is not exactly true that the push/pull action splits the coils. Of the ten positions available (five on the knife switch times two positions of the push/pull tone knob), six are single-coil or split-coil, and only four use both coils of either humbucker. So even with the knob pushed down, one position (#5) is split-coil. I'll try to come up with a better description. --Craig418 (talk) 18:25, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

The description of the push/pull action has been revised and I've added a graphic showing the pickup combinations available for both two- and three-pickup Nighthawks. --Craig418 (talk) 01:17, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

The more I think about this, the more I think that with the tone knob up, the Nighthawk could be said to be in "Stratocaster mode", because the five pickup configurations available with the tone knob up correspond exactly to the standard Stratocaster. And I really wonder what Gibson were thinking when they came up with the illogical arrangement of the "tone knob down" knife-switch settings -- it would have made more sense and been easier to remember if the humbucking positions 2 and 3 had been exchanged with positions 4 and 5. It would have made knob-up voices correspond more closely with knob-down voices. Oh well. I suppose I could get my own Nighthawk rewired that way if I really want to... --Craig418 (talk) 20:33, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Copy/Paste from Gibson.com
The paragraph around the Nighthawk 2009 is entirely copied from the Gibson page for the Nighthawk 2009. Not only is this against policy here but it's also factually inaccurate. The Nighthawk 2009 is a complete redesign and shares little with the original other than the body shape. This should be cleaned up or reverted to an earlier version to avoid copyright issues. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.120.161.6 (talk) 11:55, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

I've rewritten the text in question. --Craig418 (talk) 20:37, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

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