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Oh it's custom alright. Looks like someone wanted to turn it in to a tenor guitar.

The original owner probably grew up playing tenors.

 

Maybe they thought, "How in the world do you play these new fangled 6 string geetars?" "I can fix that!"

 

Kinda like I feel about some of those new fangled 7 string guitars. :)

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Ive seen a couple of guitars converted to tenor like this over the years of looking a photo of one had a note that this was usually done for a tenor player with smaller hands and still wanting the tone and volume. Actually the two I saw had been done very well not hatchet jobs at all but clearly done by a talented luthier so it must have been done a few times over the years

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The only thing more stupid than what was done to this guitar is what someone will end up paying for it in it's present condition. Look, I dig old guitars too, and there have been times in the past when I would be embarassed to admit what I paid for something. However, this thing is at $760 right now, will likely go over $1000, and unless the provenance means anything, then either some tenor guitar player is going to have one seriously overpriced halfassed tenor Gibson, or Gibson's restoration department will be typing up a repair invoice with four digits ahead of the decimal point in about a year and a half.

 

No, hell no. Not when a new J45 (with SIX strings) can be bought for $1700 or so, maybe cheaper if the planets are aligned.

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Looks like a J45 to me, vs. Southern Jumbo. I have never seen anybody cut down a neck like that, but back in the 50,s and 60,s people did add various sound hole pick-ups, and exterior top controles, ( home made J160s), but all I ever saw had the wireing installed under the top. This one looks like a real hachet job.

I now have my Dads LG-2, which the orginal owner, back in the 50s, installed a sound hole pick-up and top controles. It sounds great unplugged, but I would have never did this to a guitar.

Dale

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