JuanCarlosVejar Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Check it out: https://www.themusiczoo.com/collections/acoustic-guitars/products/gibson-montana-1937-l-00-legend-acoustic-guitar-vintage-sunburst JC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 It's odd that they're putting a paper label in these. My 2010 L-OO Legend is only ink-stamped on the neck block, with no paper label. I think the J-45 Legend was the same way, which would have been period-correct. Great little guitars, but not cheap. About the same price as a good vintage version. This is about as accurate a repro as Gibson does: all hide glue, cloth side stays, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 My J45 Legend and 32 L00 Reissue are stamped, no label Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willie King Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 My 1932 L-00 is stamped no label. What about some more specs, like nut material, etc? It would be nice, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 The label is for the shop salesperson ? Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Why on earth would you want to pay $5,200 for a modern copy when you can have an original 30's L-00 for around the same price ?? With .. tone that comes from 80 year old wood and decades of playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldCowboy Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Why on earth would you want to pay $5,200 for a modern copy when you can have an original 30's L-00 for around the same price ?? With .. tone that comes from 80 year old wood and decades of playing. I tend to hold to that concept as well, but since joining the forum I've come to realize how many different ways of looking at the matter are out there. If I were going to road a guitar - which, at my stage of life, is ridiculous - I imagine I'd use new. 😒 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Just stay calm! Gibson have NOT made that model since Ren left, it must be old stock. ( if it was brand new, it would have a torrefied top). Shame, because some of the old ones are cactus! BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Shame, because some of the old ones are cactus! BluesKing777. ????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Why on earth would you want to pay $5,200 for a modern copy when you can have an original 30's L-00 for around the same price ?? With .. tone that comes from 80 year old wood and decades of playing. I spent a frustrating year looking at vintage Gibson smallbodies from the 1930's and 40's. Most of them needed a substantial amount of work of one type or another: neck re-sets, worn fretboards, shaved bridges, badly-glued brace repairs, top back, and rim crack repairs, etc, etc, etc. I love vintage on principle, but not at the expense of playability. My L-OO Legend is a really nice little guitar, and I got it at a reasonable price. At the price they ask for these new ones, however, I might keep shopping for vintage if I were in the market today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fretplay Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 At 6000 usd that's a lot of money for a guitar but what doe's it have to make it worth that price? How doe's it compare to a CJ165 which is a small body J200? at considerably less? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willie King Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 I got my 32 vintage L-00 that mapped at $5498 in a trade. I had to dreds I was not playing and a friend who was saddled with the L-00 by Gibson and it sat in his shop for a long time. I made an offer of the trade and he took it. I have nowhere near what the guitar cost in it and he got two guitars he turned in a month. I cam e out ahead. Now having said that I also have two Waterloos a 14 fret hog and a 12 fret maple. The Gibson is a shade better sounding than the hog and shiny. It did come in a nice red line case. But at that price plastic end pins and a tusq nut were a surprise. I am allergic to mildew and mold and some old guitars and I do not get along too well. But I love these little guitars and in the 1/4 century (God willing) I have left will enjoy playing them. There are many reasons for many things. We can wonder at each others decisions but I find it best to content with our own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldCowboy Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 I spent a frustrating year looking at vintage Gibson smallbodies from the 1930's and 40's. Most of them needed a substantial amount of work of one type or another: neck re-sets, worn fretboards, shaved bridges, badly-glued brace repairs, top back, and rim crack repairs, etc, etc, etc. I love vintage on principle, but not at the expense of playability. My L-OO Legend is a really nice little guitar, and I got it at a reasonable price. At the price they ask for these new ones, however, I might keep shopping for vintage if I were in the market today. In the early 1990's I was networking with a couple small stores in Tennessee - we'd swap guitars that they or I could sell more easily in our respective areas. The vintage L-00's and the like were really coming out of the woodwork back then from both directions. Must have seen 15 or 20, of which only a couple needed more than a good setup. That ship has sailed, apparently. Wish I'd had the foresight to keep one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 yikes, north of $5k?? no thanks.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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