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I got me a 1961 B45-12 courtesy of one of our members.  And yeah, they were a J45 with a wide neck and humongous headstock slapped on.   At the time Gibson came out with these Harmony was the only U.S. company even offering a stock 12 string guitar.  Gibson transitioned to the square shoulder version sometime in 1962.  They used three different bridge configurations which I have never been able to nail down to specific years and in late-1964 they went with a heavier bracing to keep the guitars from twisting themselves apart,   Originally Gibson shipped these with a double G string instead of the octave string.   

In terms of marketing though it would make more sense to go with J45-12 which is a description of the model rather than the old Kalamazoo model designation. It allows everyone to quickly conjure up an image of what they are talking about.  

 

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