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The most straightforward and cheapest guitar in the 'Hawk range is "The Hawk". It has in common with the rest of the range, the same body outline and scale length. It also features the same body comfort contour. The control cavity is accessible from the back of the guitar beneath a black plastic cover. Unlike the the rest of the range it has a truss rod cover engraved in script - "The Hawk". The mahogany body and neck and the humbucking pickups will mean that this a more traditionally Gibson sounding guitar than any other in the 'Hawk range - it does however have the same 25.5" scale length as the rest of the range and that will undoubtedly make "The Hawk" more twang-y than, say, an SG. I can't find any reliable information about when "The Hawk" first appeared in the Gibson catalogue and then when it was withdrawn - if I were to guess I would say that it paralleled the Nighthawk range which were introduced in 1993 and withdrawn finally in 1999. I have no solid basis for saying this but I suspect "The Hawk" sold in rather small numbers - and it is not clear that it sold at all outside the USA. Up until January 2006 I had heard from no "The Hawk" owners - and then I heard from three in the space of a month - maybe there is a huge silent owner-base that will increasingly reveal itself - and then maybe not...Specification | Body - Mahogany | | Neck - Mahogany | | Fingerboard/Inlay - Rosewood/Dot | | Scale/Nut Width - 25 1/2" / 1 11/16" | | Binding - None | | Bridge/Tailpiece - Wraparound | | Hardware - Chrome | | Pickups - Two 490R Alnico magnet humbuckers | the pickups have no covers and are the most basic humbuckers in the Gibson range |
| | Controls - One volume, one tone, three-way pick-up selector switch | the Gibson website claims the Hawk has two tone controls - but it clearly only has one |
| | Finish - Ebony, Wine Red |
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