If in the press release Gibson mentioned the solid spruce top but followed it without mentioning that the back and sides are solid, that indicates to me that they’re laminated. I’d be very surprised if Gibson would undercut their own solid walnut guitars that retail for a few hundred dollars more.
Gibson has a long and honorable history of using high quality laminates in professional level guitars: the J-160E’s that the Beatles used onstage and off were built completely out of laminates, including their tops. So if these new Gibsons have laminated backs and sides, as I suspect, they’ll be very good quality laminates, not cheapo plywood with mysterious, spongy softwood cores like entry level Asian-made guitars.
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