duluthdan Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 Tapered headstock, no neck binding, couple cracks and dings. Monster big neck, I love it sounds and plays outstanding. No Fon on neck block. Me thinks maybe a decades old replacement. https://imgur.com/gallery/rmsiYiR 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorristownSal Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 Guitar… solid A! Powder… A+! good boy… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 I’m jealous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duluthdan Posted July 31 Author Share Posted July 31 1 hour ago, MorristownSal said: Guitar… solid A! Powder… A+! good boy… Girl. She’s a she. A 95 pound she. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 Does it have a neck heel cap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrairieDog Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 Wow!!! Toss me in the jealous pool too! And beautiful pup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duluthdan Posted August 1 Author Share Posted August 1 33 minutes ago, Dave F said: Does it have a neck heel cap? No. Indicator of anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 1 hour ago, duluthdan said: No. Indicator of anything? Would nail it down as a '42 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 2 hours ago, duluthdan said: Girl. She’s a she. A 95 pound she. All guitar pics need dogs in them now. My dog is a measly 16 lbs. But I don’t need a snow shovel to clean up her poo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 (edited) Looks like she's waiting for you to pick it up and play something. Edited August 1 by Dave F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egoidealmusic Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 Oh, wow, that is gorgeous. Super jealous here...can't wait to hear a clip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars68 Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 Beautiful! Congratulations to a really cool guitar. Lars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 Congratulations on acquiring a gorgeous example of functional artwork by the Kalamazoo Gals! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 Oh, and Dan, does your SJ have an FON stamped on its neckblock? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duluthdan Posted August 1 Author Share Posted August 1 1 minute ago, jt said: Oh, and Dan, does your SJ have an FON stamped on its neckblock? No. Just looks like a square piece of poplar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J185cat Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 Cool, cool and cool some more. Congrats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G Man Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 Beautiful example! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duluthdan Posted August 1 Author Share Posted August 1 Gentle people- this is very much a ‘players grade’ banner. Replaced tuners, couple repaired cracks. Sounds and plays outstanding, but Its not a collectors gem. Thinking about installing a trance pickup, but, my playing abilities are starting to wane. I’ll probably relegate this to the front porch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 (edited) You are preaching to the choir here as I play that 1942 J50. It was also a player's grade instrument. I have owned it for 12 or so years now and I have yet to play another other slope shoulder jumbo which has been able to dethrone it. The thing about a Banner though is you do not feel as if you own it as much as you have been appointed the guitar's caretaker. But this is the guitar that every time I play it, it feels like coming home. You might run over to the Gibson Banner Registry and compare the specs listed there to those on your guitar. If I had to guess, based on the lack of an FON, the presence of a truss rod, the square poplar neck block, and such, I would have pegged it as being built in 1945. But then again, I am not even close to an expert when it comes to such wonderous creations as these. P.S. I love JT's description of the Banners as functional artwork. Edited August 1 by zombywoof Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrairieDog Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 (edited) Oh go on. Don’t be modest 🙂 any Banner is a catch!! I have yet to find even a broken down wreck, and be in the right place and time, to even approach. Edited August 1 by PrairieDog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 I had a vintage '42-'43 J45. I had to have cracks cleated, braces glued, new bridge, fret job, new tuners and neck reset. After all that, I just didn't like it. My J45 Legend and '52 J45 were more to my liking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 (edited) 45 minutes ago, PrairieDog said: Oh go on. Don’t be modest 🙂 any Banner is a catch!! I have yet to find even a broken down wreck, and be in the right place and time, to even approach. Between turkey hunting season, being an authorized Martin Service tech, and handling general repairs for two music shops, my J50 ended up spending a full year with my repair guy. I would call and ask how my Gibson was coming along and would get replies like it is in pieces all over the shop. And based on some of the photos I was sent (which I wish I could find) he was not kidding. But when he finally gave the guitar back to me, he did so with the worlds "never let it out of your hands" saying his father in whose music shop he had learned the trade used to call guitars which sounded like mine "once in a blue moon Gibsons. Edited August 1 by zombywoof 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duluthdan Posted August 1 Author Share Posted August 1 At a loss on how to import direct from Imgur anymore. Here’s the interior cloth stay, extra holes by tuners. The belly down bridge. https://imgur.com/gallery/KsqA3Uw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 (edited) (in Imgur) Move mouse over picture Right click Select Copy Image Link In your post, Right click and select paste Edited August 1 by Dave F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted August 1 Share Posted August 1 FYI, From Willi's post on UMGF, those tuners look like some of these - Chronology of Kluson tuners used from late 1936 to 1946 on J-35s, L-0/00, J-45/50s, LGs, SJs - The Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum (umgf.com) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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