Gibson Acoustic Owners

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Comment by TheValleyGirl on March 28, 2013 at 12:27pm

I ave been playing it more since I placed it next tommy TV chair:). It is the Youngest guitar I own and it is playing nicely

Comment by Edward Sparks on March 28, 2013 at 11:59am

Valley girl, not just age, but also playing it over tone breaks it in! Since I won and use many guitars and try to play them all as often as possible, but it took me years to get my 2004 Gibson J160e to sound like it does now!

Comment by Michael T. Swisher on March 28, 2013 at 9:35am

Any solid wood top will change with age, often for the better. My L130 started off well but improved to amazing. However, at no point has it been mellow (it projects very well, aka is loud even with light strings). The improvement has been in its tonal balance and a stronger midrange at lower attacks. After the first year I switched strings from 80-20's to phosphor bronze with good results. After five years, I can use Cleartone strings and still get a clean sound (they sounded muddy when the guitar was new.

I think this is what we call fun.

Comment by TheValleyGirl on March 28, 2013 at 7:29am

I'm happy to say that I'm enjoying my Brad Paisley more than my Martin lately. The ton has improved with age. Do all Gibsons mellow and break in?

Comment by FloridaGull on March 28, 2013 at 5:43am

They had a 1963 up awhile ago that sold...don't know what for...

Comment by Edward Sparks on March 27, 2013 at 7:43pm

Yeah those adjustable bridges were a bad idea tonewise!  Although I have seen worse, a J200 with a Les Paul type bridge and saddles! Yuck!

 

Comment by Dave G on March 27, 2013 at 7:10pm

Yep...but that adj setup drops the value below the 2G mark. 

Comment by FloridaGull on March 27, 2013 at 4:38pm

Another nice Gibson at Wolfe Guitars - a 1968 J45-ADJ - they are asking $2675...

http://www.gbase.com/gear/gibson-j45-adj-1968-sunburst#

Enjoy!

Comment by Edward Sparks on March 20, 2013 at 7:00am

I have been waiting for this book and have been keeping tabs with the author for it's release...it's finally here an d they are now working on a followup CD of the music! Check it out!

"It's a haunting image. At least it was for author John Thomas. Some seventy women sit in four rows in front of the Gibson Guitar factory in the mid-1940s. Conventional wisdom and company lore had it that Gibson had ceased guitar production during WWII, with only "seasoned craftsmen" too old for battle doing repairs and completing the few instruments already in progress. What were these women doing there? The image so bedeviled Thomas that he eventually set out to find at least one of the women in the photograph. He found a dozen. Along the way he would discover that despite denials that endured into the 1990s, Gibson employed a nearly all female workforce to build thousands of wartime guitars and marked each with a small, golden "banner" pronouncing that "Only a Gibson is Good Enough." The banner appeared on the guitars at the moment those women entered the factory in January 1942, which fate choreographed to coincide with the precise instant when Glenn Miller's "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" reached the pinnacle of the pop charts. The banner disappeared at the end of 1945 when the war ended, the soldiers returned, and most of the Kalamazoo Gals ceded their guitar making jobs back to their male predecessors. On his personal journey, Thomas tracks Orville Gibson from his birth in upstate New York to the founding of his namesake company in Michigan and to his return to his birthplace and death in a mental hospital. He takes us to meet these women in Kalamazoo and to travel with them through the Great Depression and into WWII. He wanders the hallways of the abandoned Gibson factory in search of the ghost of its founder, Orville Gibson, steps into the imaging clinic to seek radiographic evidence of sublime quality of the Gals' craft, and tracks the "Banner" Gibsons from Kalamazoo into the hands of their first owners. Ultimately, he leads us straight into the hearts of the Kalamazoo Gals."

Comment by FloridaGull on March 15, 2013 at 2:38pm

From 2012  to 1937 - a 1937 Gibson L-50 Archtop at Wolfe:

http://www.gbase.com/gear/gibson-l-50-1937-sunburst#

They are asking $1875...

Enjoy!

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