Jim Hurst is an extraordinary musician of many talents. Jim plays a wide variety of different styles of guitar from flatpicking to fingerstyle. In 1988 a group of Jim’s friends wanted to get him a nice guitar, because he was getting so good. So Jim ended up with Doc Watson model for his first Gallagher Guitar. In 2008 Gallagher decided to honor Jim Hurst’s long tradition with Gallagher with the Jim Hurst Model.
The Jim Hurst Model was the first Gallagher slope shoulder body. With the help of Jim Hurst, Gallagher designed a model that what fit the needs of a versital guitar player like Jim!The Jim Hurst Model is a slope shoulder body with Mahogany back and sides and has an Adirondack top. The body, fretboard and Headstock are bound with tortoise and the body has a built in armrest. The neck has a 1 ¾ nut spacing and big C shaped profile. The Ebony fingerboard is inlayed with 3mm abalone dots and the Ebony headstock veneer is inlayed with an Abalone G. The Jim Hurst is fitted with nickel Schaller tuners.
