Dave F

I kept buying koa instruments just for the beauty of the wood. I don’t have any koa guitars anymore but the ukulele satisfies me.

I’ve had a few Koa guitars. I thought they were closer to mahogany, a little quieter.

There’s othet factors besides the guitar scale and tone woods. Strings, string height, pick, attack.

Send me a tracing and I'll give it a shot.

How about a black with a white Maltese cross?

I like the one that came on my SJ. Has what looks like a gold glitter or marbling background with a little translucency.

Gibson L-1 Robert Johnson 2003 - 2016 | Reverb

I love that color. Congrats!

That's your serial number, not the model number.

Some of the CL and FB ads just kill me but I think this one on FB from a "Luthier" takes the cake. This guitar has its share of road-worn characteristics. It has its share of scratches, but no dents or cracks. Structurally it has no problems. Someone (not me) pulled the frets out, and never finished the job. At Sweetwater.com, a new one goes for about $3500.00. From what I know, the electronics work good. It’s a bit of a fixer-upper. Mainly for new frets. I received this as a payment, I am a luthier. I’m letting it go for more than half-price, $1500.00 firm. Its original hardshell case comes with it. No trades, cash only, local pickup. Cannot ship, too expensive.

she definitely plays. She was the only rhythm guitar and played every song. If I remember correctly, she did a couple solo numbers. My daughter went with me and became a fan.

maybe silk and steel

The ‘42 LG1 was x braced

I saw Emmylou in concert in 2021. She was playing a standard natural J200 and bar chording all up and down the board.

They came up with the L200 which I think was based on the J165. There's one on eBay that the seller offered to me for $2499. I've had a couple J165 configurations, but didn't keep any of them. If this one was in better shape, I'd be tempted. Gibson Emmylou Harris acoustic Guitar | eBay I remember they made a 1994 J200 Rose for her too. I believe it was full size.

My brother was over there as I was coming up on 19 yo, and he advised me to get a deferment.

Gibson took a break from the more accurate Legends around 2010. In 2015, they started them back up with less accurate features and labels.

Looks good to me. I've had a couple newer Gibson historic models that came with the Golden Age tuners so those also look original to that model to me. I looked at the same model on Reverb and they all those tuners.

Sounds great as is so I'll probably not mess with it, and I'll probably never know the affect.

Still in the honeymoon stage, but I'm really impressed. If I feel the same in a month or so, there will probably be a dozen guitars being moved on.

Some misinterpret that as origin of shipping. I bought a used Kris Kristofferson SJ from UK. I told the seller how to mark the paperwork. They marked it wrong and DHL tried to collect money from me. Once I explained the details, they agreed and released to me.

I haven’t played one but the one on Sweetwater site looks great. I do have a ‘68 J50 Adjustable but I made a rosewood insert to hold a standard drop-in saddle out of necessity that works great. I did not glue anything in and can pull it out and go back to the adjustable. It had a rosewood adjustable saddle that did not sound bad but had to replace it to adjust the intonation.

I’ve always thought my DIF is the sweetest sounding guitar I have.

I had a RW J 200 and a Koa J200. Beautiful guitars but did nothing for me sound wise and RW is my favorite tone wood.

I would think you would not any issues getting one made. The Humming bird and even the new J45 Custom Ebony have the bird beak bound necks and are short scale so they're tooled for it. From my experience, the maple guitars are not that loud but have a very balanced sweet tone. The J200's (I'm on my 5th one) are not known for being extra loud and that's with the long scale. My fear is you may not like the sound of the Jumbo maple with a short scale. If you haven't tried one a J185 (slightly smaller 16" instead of 17", maple body) is a short scale and I like them. Good Luck!