I thought we went through this before?
Gibson never did them in walnut (not that it could not be custom ordered)?
When did we throw that around? I must have been distracted by a Focke Wulf discussion.
I disagree on they never did them in walnut finish. I have been seeing the odd EB-2 in walnut for years, back when they weren't worth a refinish. It is the same finish that Gibson went overboard on in the early 70s/puprle and white label period. They used that on a ton of ES-335s in that period and the crummy fat bodied Sleepy LaBeef ES. And also on that ES with a plastic control plate. God forgive me, I can't remember all the names. And they also shot that cocoa tint on a lot of EB variants in the early 70s.
Rare? Of course. But I always looked at them as what you saw on the back of pretty much any sunburst EB-2 - all brown.
I do dig 72 pup covers though. If they had one of those Norlin pickguard with "Gibson" and the curved lines, it would be proppa!