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Folks, Check out this beast: Awesome maple tone JC

Tom, Thanks for sharing the video of your friend playing ... He showcases the tone perfectly. Absolutely perfect maple sound ! Keep pickin’ !!! JC

Here’s P. Townsend first on a J 200 then on a 60’s Everly in my opinion this is maple tone at it’s best: Notice that he’s not pounding the guitars to death ... his technique is such that he’s allowing the guitar space to do it’s thing. This Is what a guitar should sound like to me. And you will not get that sound out of anything but maple. The parts where he is striking the guitar very rapidly still isn’t done with an iron fist. JC

L, The idea behind the thinner body depth in the orginal Everly design was to help the notes come out faster and they certainly achieved that . As both Don and Phil aged I’m sure the way they heard music changed and their sonic horizons broadened... So the original Everly design no longer cut it for them (it was too basic) and they sought out Steinegger for something more sophisticated sonically but still in the image of the Gibsons. The modern J 180 is a great guitar I’m sure both the fact that it has a pin bridge and more depth than the original allow it to be more sophisticated than the 60’s model. But if you want simplicity and no sonic frills those old everlys are hard to beat. I guess one man’s junk and toneless guitar is another’s holy grail.I’m saying this as a general statement regarding any guitar. JC

No, And the people who say it does don’t really understand what maple brings to the table. Most of the people who complain about maple not having volume or sustain are people who are used to playing Rosewood or Mahogany.So they bash J 200’s saying that they have no sound coming out of them. Here’s a demo of a Double Pickguard Billie Joe Armstrong J 180 (same as Leonard posted above basically) being strummed and the owner specifically mentions the double pick guards not being a factor in the tone : The same applies for the J 200. If someone feels that they can’t get the sound they expect out of a maple guitar ... then a lot of times it’s the person’s actual expectations that are the problem and not the guitar. JC

The loudest Gibson guitars I’ve ever played were two Hummingbirds. The only guitar in volume that has come close to those two is the new Slash J 45 which has a very unique 1958 fat neck. I’ve played Advanced Jumbos , A Rosewood SOuthern Jumbo, J 200’s ,and a Dove.But the Hummingbirds were louder than all of those. I’m a die hard maple guy. But if I could only ever have 1 guitar I always say the Hummingbird would be it. JC

Photos would be helpful too. We would be able to see what kind of pick guard you are working with. JC

Folks, Check out this beauty from Gruhn’s : https://guitars.com/inventory/ag6359-1939-gibson-sj-100 At some point in it’s life it returned to the factory and got an updated pearl logo and fretboard inlay. JC

P, Yes I have the 1936 Elvis Costello Reissue. Which sounds very very similar to the old ones. Bob R who was a member here until his passing a number of years ago was a lover of the century of progress also and he told me that he A/B’d his Costello model with several of the old ones from the 30’s and that to him they sounded almost exactly the same. Elvis himself said that Gibson got very close to the tone of his old century in the video they did when they put the guitar out. I love mine honestly. It’s very light ... and the big V neck gives it massive resonance .You can play any style of music on it too. The Adi Spruce accentuates everything really nicely. The entire run was supposed to be 300 instruments ... I’m not sure how fare they got. In typical Gibson fashion some of them came with the “Number X of 300” written on the label ... others didn’t. Mine didn’t come with that. JC

Folks, Check this baby out: They say “Old Is Gold” and this one fits that description. I hope you enjoy like I did! JC

Lars, Actually I love the new thin finishes too!! JC

G, Actually Gibson Acoustic has it’s own room this year and you could hear yourself play just fine.I enjoyed playing the entire historic collection and they knocked my socks off. I hate rosewood guitars but these rosewood Gibsons are the finest rosewood guitars that my ears have heard. JC

Em7, Fair enough. To me this is the ultimate design especially if you want almost instant decaying sound. I’d take an Everly over anything else even prewar Martins. The pinless bridge to me just complements the idea of almost no sustain that I look for in guitars.I like my chords and my single notes to be like a ghost ... it’s there for a second and then gone. But I understand that not everyone hears music like I do and plays guitar like I do. For those who do like almost no sustain ... this is a holy grail.And I’m sure that age has made the old ones a bit more resonant than when they were new. JC

Folks, Check out a picture of the wonderful Charlie Starr playing Don Everly’s Everly: JC

JZ, I think the mic 🎤 placement in that clip wasn’t the best this video does the AJ much more justice: I think you will grab a better hint at the tone after hearing that one. These guitars are out of this world and I played the entire Historic Line . Music Villa posted this today after getting a batch of Historics in: New 2020 Gibson’s have arrived!!! We’re shocked by the tone & quality... Gibson has just leveled up, big time! AMAZING instruments with that classic/vintage Gibson appeal! JC

BK, I played one at NAMM and both the 36 AJ and the 42 Southern Jumbo Rosewood beat any RW Martin I’ve ever played. JC

Folks, I came across a picture of a unique 70’s Bird today.According to the guy who owned it it’s finished in “Black Cherry” Is there any Gibson 70’s custom color chart out there or literature that talks about such a finish? JC

I’d love to own one. For me and for what I do it’s a great guitar. JC

Lars, Always Killer! I ordered a lefty of the new Country Western Supreme last year (still waiting for it) JC

B, That’s Gorgeous even with the MOP inlay. I find it funny that Gibson still has quirks like that in the modern age. How cool is it that you have a variation within a variation of the Southern Jumbo. JC

The Country Western in general became dimensionally the same specs as the Hummingbird in 1962 . Why does Sheryl like her C& W ?? Gibson interviewed her for the new souped up version of her signature model: This is different than her previous C&W in that it has a Wide “X” scalloped bracing. The originals from the 60’s had straight (unscalloped bracing) and the old Sheryl Crow model had Scalloped X bracing in the standard “X” position. Here’s demo of the old Sheryl model: JC

Folks, Check out this guy's #1: In the description on YouTube he says he got it new in 2013. Awesome guitar JC

I have actually taken it out of retirement. At the time it was the best thing to do. Now than time has elapsed... I can play it without thinking about it too much. JC

Em7, I edited the title. my bad . JC

Folks , Check out Nick Perri doing some N.Y on a Bird: JC