onewilyfool Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 If anyone knows.....could you list the nut sizes of the older Gibson small bodies????, L-00, LGO, B-25 etc??? Thanks....I am having a lot of trouble finding information on the nut sizes..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 My F-25, same size body as B-25, has a 2" nut on a 12 fret neck. It's from 1966. It's unusual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Seems like the smaller bodies follow the same general shapes as the full sized ones. Just my small handful of experiences. So a late 60s B25 is likely to have the same skinny neck as a J45 of the era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 The early 30s 12 fret L00 sized guitars have a 1 3/4 nut, the early 14 fret c1933 also have the 1 3/4 nut. The 12 fret guitars also have a very delicate rounded "modern" neck. The 14 fret guitars have a V shape. I don't have any later period L00, but I believe they too had the 1 3/4 nut. A 30s L00 typically has a V shaped neck until the late 30s when some have a more rounded neck. Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nid2007 Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 If anyone knows.....could you list the nut sizes of the older Gibson small bodies????' date=' L-00, LGO, B-25 etc??? Thanks....I am having a lot of trouble finding information on the nut sizes.....[/quote'] Wiley, my '67 B-25 is 1 and 11/16 (that is the narrow nut). Wheras, my '57 more standard (1 3/4 ?). I love the neck on my LG-1--and the electric-type neck on B-25 is fun too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 All Gibson flattops (Hawaiians excluded) had 1 3/4 nut and 2 3/8 string spacing at the bridge until about 1941 (subject to the vagaries of hand carving). The 1 3/4 nut lasted until after WWII, but the string spacing dropped to 2 3/16 in about 1942. Around 1941, you'll find transitional guitars. In the J-35s and L-00s that I've measured (and, of course, X-rayed) from that time period, I've gotten about a50/50 on the string spacing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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