E-minor7 Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Not much of a small-body type, but here is latest from N.R.Guitars. A Flat-Top-Friday test of the LG-3. The film is a good little lecture in the differences between the 4 and offers the over-vue some people out there may need to get down - me including me. 1958 ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i15ohEKfmLs Guess X is preferred over ladder. I would take #2, but will stay by the 45. 'Nough said - all for now. Enjoy your weekends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobouz Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Re the Epi models he mentions, there was no third style I'm aware of. Just the FT-45/FT-45n Cortez, and FT-30 Caballero. On the Gibson side, there also was the B-15 (with a Melody Maker style headstock), from the late '60s. Related honorable mentions in this size & shape: Gibson CF-100/CF-100E; Kalamazoo KG-10 (late '60s LG-0 clone); Gibson & Epi Folksinger-style & 12-string models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuestionMark Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Not much of a small-body type, but here is latest from N.R.Guitars. A Flat-Top-Friday test of the LG-3. The film is a good little lecture in the differences between the 4 and offers the over-vue some people out there may need to get down - me including me. 1958 ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i15ohEKfmLs Guess X is preferred over ladder. I would take #2, but will stay by the 45. 'Nough said - all for now. Enjoy your weekends A 1960 or 61 LG-3 with an ADJ bridge was my favorite guitar as a teen. It was my brother’s and I had a Kay flattop and he had no idea how much I played it un-beknownst to him back then. When he moved out of my parents house, I acquired a 1965 Epi FT30 Caballero (Epi’s version of the LG-O) and then later I started acquiring a whole lot more guitars (one being a 1965 LG-1 that took about 20 years to open up, but finally did and is now a great guitar having aged and it’s top loosening up.). I still have both. Having bought a number of more guitars, I also acquired my 2006 CS J-45 Reissue with an ADJ bridge that really reminds me of and plays like that LG-3 ADJ, except it’s louder and bigger...satisfying my missing that original LG-3 that I liked so much as a youngun. Great to see the LG-3 in the video. Plus, I gotta say my imported Epi EL-00 (X braced, solid Sitka too w/ mahogany sides/back, though lam mahog, with its short scale small Gibson 60s sized little guitar neck) fingerpicks and strums and sounds a whole lot like that old LG-3, except for it missing the Gibson heritage and vibe). One of the short comings of all small guitars being they have a smaller sound spectrum than J’s or dreads. My only other comment being I kinda wish the video would have compared am LG-3 of yesteryear to a modern era AE LG-2. QM aka Jazzman Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Looks just like my 59! If they had made it with a 1 3/4” nut for fingerpicking, it could easily be my only guitar. As it is, the fat 50s C neck is superb and makes fingerpicking quite possible but tight. Someone put a hole in the lower bout for a pickup, so I had a Martin Thinline undersaddle put in. At the time, my luthier said: “This is your best Gibson acoustic”. Instead of standing there with my mouth open, I should have asked him exactly what he meant! Look, built, playability, what? BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickthemiller Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 What really was music to my ears was, "never been drilled for a second strap button". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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