Well as some of you may know for over 20 years I've had a Blueshawk, went thru three of them buying & selling like I do but always seem to come back.
I had a early Black Blueshawk with the Southern Comfort House of Blues Logo in the face of the guitar that I ended up selling to Guitar Emporium in Louisville, If anyone has this guitar I'd like to buy it back BTW, Then later on we had a Blue one with a black neck, Both of these guitars had the rounded profile like a Nighthawks neck was used, & then the 2006 blue Blueshawk we have currently & the 2013 Nancy Wilson "Fanatic" Nighthawk Standard..
I guess the feel & shape of these guitars really grow on you & my Son has also had one in his hands since he was three & learned to play on the lightweight killer Gibson with a wide array of tones..
Epiphone has just released a Blueshawk with bound fretboard & flamed maple veneer top & would assume that a Gibson Reissue is in the works being they were a good seller & had such great tones with the Blues 90 pickups, 3 way switch, & 6 way rotary varitone plus the dummy coil pickup in the rear which cancels 60 cycle hum when either of the pickups are used alone..
These guitars have a 25 1/2" scale with Rosewood fretboards & have a familiar feel to Les Paul players, Most Blueshawks have a V shaped neck profile like my current one but my other two had the rounded Nighthawk profile, Both of the C shape profile necks were black BTW, I know that doesn't make a difference or maybe it does? Hmmm..
Last year my Son was looking around for a new solid body guitar & was looking at the Les Paul Traditional II @ GC but finally settled on a Gibson Nighthawk as his go to solidbody, We also have a 1997 PRS CE-22 that has filled that role for a while & there isn't a bolt on neck guitar I ever seen that lives up to the feel & sound of this one, Sorry Fender..
I thought I'd share some pictures of the current Lineup of Blueshawk & Nighthawks with the Gibson Forum..
2006 Gibson Blueshawk & 2013 Gibson Nighthawk Nancy Wilson "Fanatic"