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    New Generation Collection

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    Posted · Edited by jricc

    23 hours ago, ajay said:

    I'm making a cap for the Player Port out of 5/4 Teak. I just have to get it finish sanded into an airtight fit. The teak, unfinished, is almost exactly the same color as the Walnut. I may cut a coutour to fit the body's curve, but I think I'm going to send it to Nichols Inlay to have something  inlayed into the cap. I already have a Nichols Truss rod Cover with a Grateful Dead Steal Your Face inlayed into it. I think I'll have something Similar done with the cap, maybe a Dead skleton. Anyway, this G-45 is a good sounding guitar, and my other Gibson is an Advanced Jumbo. Just wanted to let You know that the Port can be neutralized with a little work. I'm putting an LR BAGGS M1A into the guitar, so I wanted to make sure that I could use the pickup without any weirdness from the Player Port. This guitar, although plain, is a very well fitted Gibson. I'm getting pretty old, sonI may cut back to just the G-45 within a few years, and i think it will be all I need. I'm very happy with the sound of this guitar.

    Hey ajay, congrats on your G-45.  Would love to see your port cover!  I was trying to figure out what I could fashion as a cover for my G-00.  Not very good at woodmaking...

    New Generation Collection

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    On 9/23/2021 at 4:54 PM, PickitPaul said:

    After having a look at pics on Gibson webpage on these I noticed the sound port is surrounded by black plastic / rubber?  Would have looked nicer left plain wood.  Looking inside i see that the kerfling is solid, not ribbed.   Wonder why this is?   How does it differ with side thickness from regular L00 or other models?

    Neck profile is like a low oval shape or flatter than what i'm used to.

    Oh well, i am old school.  Guess i'll be keeping my trusty WM45.

    Hey Paul re: the sound port, yeah it's a hard black plastic. It extends maybe a 1/2" all round the hole inside.  It's very thin and appears to be glued on.  I'm thinking extra reinforcement for the port.  

    Btw dig those WM45's

    New Generation Collection

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    Posted · Edited by jricc

    8 hours ago, 62burst said:

    How did the gig go, Joe? 

    And. . .  since you wonder if the sound port might be taking away some bass from the 00 (which is already known to not exactly be a bass monster), have you tried to cover it with one hand while playing, to see if that is indeed the case?

    Exacto. Glad to see Sal has jumped back on that horse to ride after a guitar-breaking gig from hell.

    Hey 62burst, I should try covering the port, will try that. 

    Re: the gig, I used a Dearmond ToneBoss mag for 2 sets and a Baggs M1A for 1 set. The Baggs was a little bit better, but Ive been using that for awhile and I didn't spend as much time dialing in the Dearmond. I was playing a small pub maybe 150 people with my Bose S1 3 feet to my left up on a pole.

    As I was playing, I was thinking I can't really hear the guitar thru the soundport.  But then I did Rock this Town (Stray Cats) and i use some slapback delay. During the song, I couldn't hear the delay (which I always could before). I reasoned that I must be hearing the guitar thru the port and that's why I'm not hearing the delay. So it appears the port does act as a bit of a "monitor".

    New Generation Collection

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    Posted · Edited by jricc

    As a newb to this forum and a newb to Gibson acoustics, I am really happy about this series.  A  little back story,  I'm a newly retired elementary school music teacher.  I've wanted a Gibson acoustic for a long as I can remember.  They were always out of my financial range, family, college, wedding for my daughter etc... (I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat).  I do consider myself fortunate though, and have a nice 1998 Martin 000-1 (mahogany back) my wife bought me back then, and a Rainsong CH-OM (open box paid $1300 for it).  Paying for the Rainsong took me 15 months, but since it's the guitar I make money with, it wasn't a big deal.  I've been gigging solo for over 30 years.   But now gigging is a main source of my income since I've retired, playing maybe 70-75 times a year since covid.   So I still can't lay out $2600 for a Standard L-00.  Enter the new G series,  $999 for G-00, that I can handle, so it's a win for me.  Maybe it's not totally traditional, but it has enough of the Gibson ingredients for me.  Also, I don't think of this series as a beginners series, but a no-frills series that just happen to have a sound-port.  

    I did receive my G-00 today and will be gigging it tonight with a Dearmond Tone Boss (thanks Sal).  I've played it a bit today. 

    Some of my first impressions: 

    It's a Gibson!  Solid build and clean as all get out, not a drop of glue anywhere (you can really see a lot through the port) the  neck joint is solid, nice ebony board and bridge, this little guy rings out.  The satin nitro is thin as paper and probably why the guitar rings and is so loud.  Thick mids, bright trebles and some bass, though not a lot.  i wonder if the port has taken away some of the bass, or if the mids and highs overwhelm it.  That said,  when I play it up against a wall, you can hear more bass.  I'm not sure if I love the port, still too new (to me)  I 've never had a guitar with one before, but either way, not a deal breaker.  

    Playability is great!  I love the neck, the nut width and the comfort of a small body, my personal preferences.  So bottom line, I think that Gibson may have a hit with these, and now I can say, Only a Gibson is Good Enough.

    joe

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    New Generation Collection

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    Posted · Edited by jricc

    I've been waiting for one of these ever since I saw them on a video from Japan earlier in the year, maybe last year...

    I've been wanting a backup guitar for gigging and and have always wanted a Gibson.  So I jumped on the Sweetwater email I received this morning.  Ordered a G-00.  The soundport is nice but not the reason for my order.  I just wanted a comfortable player that sounds good and I can gig with.    I'll  hopefully have it on Thursday, gig on Friday.  Fingers crossed.

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    Curious what you think...

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    8 hours ago, Jinder said:

    The IBGs are great. Watch them disappear from the lineup within a year…whilst they’re not a Gibson, they’re too close to a Gibson in feel and performance to justify the gigantic upcharge to make the leap from one to the other for most working musicians. Gibsons as a new purchase are well out of the reach of most professional players’ pocketbooks now…or at least most I know. 
     

    I haven’t bought a new Gibson for five years, and even then it was a guitar which was exceptional (my 2015 SJ200, currently sitting right in front of me wearing a new set of strings in preparation for tonight’s show!) and sold to me at trade price due to Gibson’s screwy distributorship in the UK leaving the dealer with a massive overstock of SJ200s. 
     

    My fiancée (soon to be wife…five days left to the big day!) and I were debating this last night. We watched the Guitar John video and she concurred that they’re very good guitars indeed, as he states. She rather aptly put, however, that the IBG Hummingbird fees like a great guitar for now, whereas a Gibson Hummingbird (she has experienced all four that I’ve owned) is a great guitar for forever. 
     

    She’s not a player, but I thought it was an interesting perspective.

    Well put by your soon to be wife.  Congrats Jinder!

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    NGD (Blemished) L-00 Walnut Studio

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    7 hours ago, Jinder said:

    Congrats on the new baby! Not even 3mths old, that really is fresh out of the door…nitro takes a few months to settle and even a year or two to fully cure. My SJ200 was a 2015 NOS guitar when I bought it in 2016, and the neck finish didn’t fully cure off until mid 2017. 

    Thnx Jinder...like I said, I  never had nitro finished guitar.  At least I now know the reason for the sticky neck...thnx sgain.

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    NGD (Blemished) L-00 Walnut Studio

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    I just took ownership of a new (blemished) L-00 Walnut Studio and I'm really liking it.  Honeymoon period yes, but it plays so nice.  The blemish appears to be a ripple  in the finish on lower bout where your arm would rest.  It doesn't bother me and I saved $250.   Anyway, it was built in April 2021, and the neck is sticky after a few mins playing.  Is this due to it still being relatively newly built?  I've never had a nitro finished guitar.

    Thanks for any comments.

    Joe

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