[TM]

1944 Gibson SJ








Banner Head SJN







1947 National/Gibson L7 body with national neck



1947 National/Gibson with Gibson set neck

[Slim Chance]

Way to get it started off Terry,

Here's my '44 Banner LG-2 ...

[TM]

1947 J 50



1946 J 45

[j45nick]

1947 L-7 (A-235)




1948 (or maybe 1950) J-45 (3644). She's had a couple of extreme facelifts over the 45 years I've owned her, including a new top in 1968.

[jt]

Three that shipped in 1943:

[retrorod]

Nice group, jt
Is the leftmost guitar an LG3 ?
Sure looks a lot like mine! The binding looks full on the front. What is ply count on the top and back? The rosette as well, please> Mine is a mystery as it has been refinished natural and has no visible FON#.
It has similiar looks to yours though...Very Nice!


Beautifull guitars..one and all
PS edit....Just dawned on me....yours might be mahogany-topped????

[TM]

Maple Banner Head J 45s



1940 J 55

[zizala]

Good looking guitars everyone!

Here are a few of mine from the 40's.......(forgive the repeated L-7 photos if you follow the L-7 posts)

1945 L-7



1945 LG-2



1947 L-7




1947 ES-300




ziz

[jt]

retrorod, on 01 March 2012 - 06:29 PM, said:

Nice group, jt
Is the leftmost guitar an LG3 ?
Sure looks a lot like mine! The binding looks full on the front. What is ply count on the top and back? The rosette as well, please> Mine is a mystery as it has been refinished natural and has no visible FON#.
It has similiar looks to yours though...Very Nice!


Beautifull guitars..one and all
PS edit....Just dawned on me....yours might be mahogany-topped????

Rod,

It's an LG-1, so it does have a mahogany top. It's got the 7-ply rosette, 5-ply purflings on top, and 2-ply purflings on the back, just like the first runs of j-50s, J-45s, LG-2s, and LG-3s. X-braced.



Does yours have the banner?

[tvguit]

I didn't think I was going to be able to contribute to this until this came along yesterday: 1946 Gibson J-45

[jt]

tvguit, on 10 March 2012 - 05:36 PM, said:

I didn't think I was going to be able to contribute to this until this came along yesterday: 1946 Gibson J-45

That's a beautiful 1946 J-45! Thanks for sharing it with us.

[JimR56]

Finally scanned some old prints of the 1940 ES-250N I owned 20 years ago...

[JimR56]

Bump...

[Slim Chance]

Wow, nice and really cool. Gotta love anything Gibson with a natural finish, right? Only made these for 2 or 3 years. Has the classic "Charlie Christian" pickup (although the version in the ES-250 was slightly different that the one in the ES-150), big 17" body, open book fretboard inlays ... but wait, no stair-step headstock? Must be a late-in-the-run guitar? Did you also have the 185 amp that matched up with the guitar? Which do you prefer the ES-150 model or the later ES-250 model?

We've seen 40's, 50's, and 60's Gibsons ... so who's gonna be the first to "Post Your 30's Gibsons" ???

[JimR56]

The story on the 250:

I got it from Gruhn's in 1990. It was owned originally by Harold Bradley. The original pickup was gone (don't know if Bradley took it out, or what), so George put an ES-150 pickup in it (there's a close-up photo of the pickup in this guitar- taken not long before he sold it to me- in "Gruhn's Guide To Vintage Guitars"). All else was original. It was made in 1940, so it was later than some. The stair-stepped headstocks were the early ones. George estimated that Gibson only produced 20 or 25 of those guitars (including all the variations). It was a model that was constantly evolving. Anyway, it was a great guitar for soloing, but I wanted something that was better for chord/melody playing, and I decided to sell it to a friend. I ended up getting the '58 Super 400CESN that's pictured in the "Post your 50's Gibsons" thread.

I never owned an ES-150, or either of the 1930's Gibson amps.

I agree, we should have a thread for 1930's Gibsons (and earlier!).

[nickjwill]

1948 J-50 FON 605

This post has been edited by nickjwill: 07 May 2012 - 06:19 PM

[nickjwill]

oops double post

[L5Larry]

1947 L-7 (A-10XX)