bram99

I have one of these from a limited run they did in 2012....they are really really nice. Similar to the American eagle, but better specs in my opinion...sunburst and rectangular thru saddle bridge. Street price when new was about $2000. Don't see them resold very often...A great find for someone looking at LG-2s. <-------avitar.

Wildwood has a couple of them....(and a bunch of Nick Lucas L-100s in rosewood and maple)... http://www.wildwoodguitars.com/acoustics/gibson/small_body.htm I wish they would go a bit thicker on the neck profile on these. I am finding I like the slim taper neck less and less these days. I would buy if it had a beefy neck like on the keb mo... Sounds great though and interesting that a guitar Martin is paying homage to with the CEO-7, is now in limited production.

That would do it...and a few extra minutes to place a backing caul when drilling string holes and the whole hole thing is resolved.

Thanks for helping clarify Dan, but knowing why it is there does not make it okay that it is there in my book. On my LG-2 the combination of the locating hole and the bridge pin tear out leaves virtually no wood material in spots and the strings are always drawn to those spots. I stuck on a thin piece of bridge plate material with double side tape to divert the strings away. But I don't find comfort in knowing that the hole has gobs of epoxy there. I love Gibson guitars (more than any other brand) but I will not buy another that I cannot inspect for this defect. If I buy one online and it has the hole too close to the bridge pins, I will return it. When the major retailers start getting guitars returned for this problem, maybe Gibson will find the incentive to come up with an alternative manufacturing technique. Not trying to be a troll here, but I still think it is unacceptable and it certainly is a variable I will consider when purchasing. Here is the patch I had to put on a brand new $2000 guitar.

I was pretty heavily involved in the old conversation about a year ago. My LG-2 has the hole near the bridge pin holes which are badly blown out because they were drilled without a backing caul. I eventually got an RMA from Gibson, but decided not to ship the guitar. My easy and completely reversable fix was to cut a small triangle shaped cover (roughly .5" x.5"x.5") out of some thin maple bridge plate material I had laying around. I just stuck it over the hole(with the bridge pins in place)using double sided tape. No major surgery, but it keeps the strings to the side and out of the hole. Not excusing the fact that it is there....just decided that I could live with it with.

Belly Bridge My 2009 J45-TV has the extra hole but it is far enough away from the bridge pin holes and is not a problem Rectangular Bridges My 2012 LG-2 Custom Shop has the hole right next to (in a bad way) bridge pin holes My 2013 LG-2 Mahogany Banner does not have the extra hole

My banker knows my house is not upside-down and that's good enough for me in these times....my darn iPad doesn't seem to be able to tell the difference however...here's the proper perspective...with a few others...the two middle ones in the back row I made a few years ago....European spruce and Alaskan yellow cedar flamenco (currently being refinished, thus blue tape in sound hole), and western red cedar and mahogany classical.....I was working on a 12-fret slotted head, adirondack and mahogany steel string based on LG body shape, before my son was born 6 years ago...and just now about to return to that project.

Bram99 here.....just joined from San Francisco...been visiting for years, but happy to be part of the conversation. In keeping with expectations here, here is my Gibson family....2006 Les Paul Studio (VM, faded brown)...2012 custom ES-330 VOS, 2012 Custom LG-2 reissue, 2009 J-45TV. I have a handful other non-Gibson's but these are my faves. I could never choose just one, but I played (poorly) for 35 years and have never owned or played a guitar that comes close to the J-45 TV....well....that was until I picked up the LG-2 a couple of months ago....I now have two favorite guitars.....lucky for sure.