BillyTanglewood

If you have a Gibson Acoustic circa year 2000, this is Gibson's spec sheet for the Guitars in production at that time. And probably for some time. - BT Gibson Montana Specifications 2000.pdf

Hi Lars, Old thread I know. 😉 What you are looking for was once on the internet, so it can often be retrieved through the internet archive, which archived material on most websites. You go to Web dot Archive dot Org and you can search for the Gibson dot com website, It will show you a variety of years and days when it crawled the site. Your J-160E is a subset of the J-45 series, which could be branded as the signature John Lennon model. Here's the link and a pdf I took of your model J-160E. https://web.archive.org/web/20021202161629/http://montana.gibson.com/guitars/J-45/j-160e.html I was on there looking for information on the "Star" and "Starburst" guitars which don't seem to show up either. But the specification sheet from the year 2000 website says that the only guitars they make with star inlays on the neck and bridge are the J-180 (no pickup) and the J-185EC (pickup and cutway.) Some would be labeled as a "Star" and some labeled as a J-180EC , and your guitar some would be labeled as a Lennon signature model and some just as a J-160E- I guess. Except the "Star" and Starbursts" had Florentine cutways, not rounded ones like the J-180 or the J-185's. Gibson probably was more worried about selling their instruments than keeping historical records - but at least there are clues. J-45 Round Shoulder Acoustic Guitars J-160E.pdf