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First off, I'm new here. Maybe some of you could help me out. So a friend of mine has this Gibson, or at least it says it's a Gibson on the headstock. What is it? No numbers, nothing.

It's neck and fretboard are delaminating. So, trying to justify the repair. Help me out guys!

 

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https://ibb.co/eGPbWa

https://ibb.co/dXQiBa

https://ibb.co/h38EHF

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It's definitely not a Gibson. Looks like a budget '70s Japanese dread, made of laminates with probably an "ebonised" (i.e. Painted) fretboard and bridge, and a body covered in thick polycellulose goop.

 

It's not worth repairing unless someone can do it for free. For the money you'd spend on fixing it, you could buy a decent Epiphone or Sigma acoustic which would be 10,000X the guitar this is.

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First off, I'm new here. Maybe some of you could help me out. So a friend of mine has this Gibson, or at least it says it's a Gibson on the headstock. What is it? No numbers, nothing.

It's neck and fretboard are delaminating. So, trying to justify the repair. Help me out guys!

 

Picture links

https://ibb.co/eGPbWa

https://ibb.co/dXQiBa

https://ibb.co/h38EHF

 

 

Its a J-13FOS. There were a limited run of these back in 1913. They were made to commemorate the Chinese Bullfrog.

 

(Totally kidding of course.) It's crazy how these guitars pop up. I wonder how it sounds.

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I had a similar one in my garage for years; a local folk club had a collection of art pieces made from old instruments and a friend thought maybe I could do something with it. I never did, and the club closed, so I finally threw it away recently. I always wondered how/why it came to have that logo.

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Many of the Japanese "lawsuit era" guitars of the '70s were actually very well made by Ibanez, Takamine, Aria and others. They copied many of Gibson, Martin, and Guild's visual cues, but not the name on the headstock.

 

This guitar does not come close to breathing even that kind of air, so just quickly step away from the firewood!

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Well, thanks for all your responses. I didn't figure it was the real deal, but the fake logo was decently impressive. Someone probably spent more time making a fake logo the. It actually took to build the guitar. I may use it for practicing my repair work. I have done a few guitars at this point and this one seems like a fun challenge. He also has a Kay arch top acoustic hanging there as well. Wrong forum for this, but here is a picture anyway.

 

https://ibb.co/gdiz1a

 

Is this one worth messing around with? I don't know much about old arch tops, but it looks like it has a nice pair of f holes. Can you say that still? F holes?

 

At any rate, I hate to see any guitar dying like that. This guys man cave is like a guitar hospice.

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