Markino

Jup they are useless. I am ordering the parts from stewmac.com. Luckily I meet up with Luthier, had some tea with him and spoke about restoring my guitar. He said there are no parts in SA and if there are you have to do some serious digging to find them. Also hes a pro and he is excited to set up my guitar!

I need your help guys. So I had my guitar at shop so that they can check for spare parts and so on. The biggest issue they have is finding new tuners. Apparently you can't just put new tuner buttons on you have to buy a whole new tuner. They did find tuners that would work but they aren't the same ones. Instead of being one complete part for each side its a tuner for each individual string. They don't look good. If I do take them then they have to drill new holes at the headstock for them to fit. I do not want to do that. Do you guys recommend I find a new set of original tuners or find a way of getting new buttons on to the old tuners?

Wow! Thank you so much Nick are amazing. I took the guitar to a music shop to get it checked and see if they can help me out . Luckily they do a lot of work with Gibsons. Also the owner loved the story behind it and he wants to keep things as they are but make it playable. I will let you guys know how things progress!

Thank you so much for your help Nick! It is definitely a LG-1, I measured 360 mm at the widest part of the guitar. Aslo it makes sense that he bought a LG-1 because he didn't didn't play guitar often. help I am just going to get it to the point where it's playable. Like you suggested. I will take it to get checked and see what they can do here because ordering parts from the USA right now, with our Covid crisis, will take 6 months. Also I am still a student so saving some money here and there will go along way. I think it would make a great first guitar because at the moment I am borrowing my brother's classical guitar. Although do you think it would make a good guitar to learn how to play on, because in all honesty I only started learning the guitar on sunday. However, I have played like 8 hours since then and I am enjoying it so much. My fingertips are ruined 😂 I have also attached a picture of the head stack and a couple more ones of the guitar. Again thank you so much Nick

Thank you so much dude. I found a music shop near me that's registered Gibson dealer and they are so excited to see it. Also they said they have an amazing vintage luthier that can restore it.

A Pre-50's J45 I seriously can't believe it's that old . How should I go about restoring it and for curiosity's sack how much do you think its worth?

Please ignore, first time adding to this forum and I screwed up

I recently started to learn the guitar and my dad mentioned we had a old Gibson guitar that belonged to my Grandfather sitting in the garage. I picked it up, but it had no strings, was dinged up abit and I couldn't use it. So I thought nothing of it until a friend of mine said that it might be a 60s J45. I started researching the guitar but I couldn't find any serial number on it by the headstock. It just says "made in the USA". I only found two markings inside the guitar that might give an idea of what it is. One by the sound hole, where the sticker should be, that looks like it says "16 1". The other is where the neck is attached to the inside of the guitar and says "5733 34". I have attached pictures of the markings. I have no idea how to date the guitar. I would like to restore the guitar if it is sensible to do so. The guitar is missing its capstans, bridge pins, the tuning pegs have disintegrated and the plastic cover that hides the nut is gone. The guitar has a fair number of dings, a large scratch on one side and damage at the bottom where a strap may have gone. Overall it looks like a guitar that was played a lot. Attached some images of the damage. What year do you guys think it is and is it worthwhile restoring? Any help will be extremely appreciated!

Restoring and dating a 60s J45