Gwen69er Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 i tried to work on this but dam , i have a gibson les paul jumbo flat top serial # 905726 all marked in pen by hand Style: - in pen Guitar Gibson:- in pen Les Paul Jumbo serial#- in pen too made in usa Kalamazoo Michgan I thought I would try to get the history to put in the case for my next of kin , knock wood its not soon . thanks for the help , and Merry Christmas all Gwen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drathbun Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 i tried to work on this but dam , i have a gibson les paul jumbo flat top serial # 905726 all marked in pen by hand Style: - in pen Guitar Gibson:- in pen Les Paul Jumbo serial#- in pen too made in usa Kalamazoo Michgan I thought I would try to get the history to put in the case for my next of kin , knock wood its not soon . thanks for the help , and Merry Christmas all Gwen The Les Paul Jumbo was made between 1969 and 1970. The serial number places it in 1968, but the serial numbers during those years were all over the place between '61 and '69. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanvillRob Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 i tried to work on this but dam , i have a gibson les paul jumbo flat top serial # 905726 all marked in pen by hand Style: - in pen Guitar Gibson:- in pen Les Paul Jumbo serial#- in pen too made in usa Kalamazoo Michgan I thought I would try to get the history to put in the case for my next of kin , knock wood its not soon . thanks for the help , and Merry Christmas all Gwen Gwen, you can send it to me...sometimes I stand next to Ken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drathbun Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Interesting page on this guitar: Les Paul Jumbo I find one thing interesting in the photo you've provided. Through the sound hole you can see the wood of the back. It doesn't look like it is book matched Brazilian rosewood to me. Could you post a photo of the back of the guitar? edit: Funny, now I look at the guitar in the link above, it shows no seem through the sound hole either, although it is obviously a highly figured book matched Brazilian rosewood back. Perhaps this model was ply? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Interesting page on this guitar: Les Paul Jumbo I find one thing interesting in the photo you've provided. Through the sound hole you can see the wood of the back. It doesn't look like it is book matched Brazilian rosewood to me. Could you post a photo of the back of the guitar? edit: Funny, now I look at the guitar in the link above, it shows no seem through the sound hole either, although it is obviously a highly figured book matched Brazilian rosewood back. Perhaps this model was ply? "Fabulous Flat Tops" refers to this guitar as an oddity, and I think they are right. The article states back and sides of rosewood, and doesn't mention veneer. It also mentions that the 1971 Gibson catalog lists the back and sides of maple, so lord knows what you will see on any individual guitar. Whitford implies that this guitar was short-lived (basically 1970 and 1971) because it couldn't compete with the J-160E. He obviously did not think much of this model, which apparently had nothing to do with Les Paul. It was just Gibson/Norlin trying to capitalize on a popular name. I had thought that by 1969 or so, solid Brazilian book-matched backs and sides were a thing of the past. In the Martin line, wasn't this about the time the the D-35 came around, using up the last scraps of Brazilian with its three-piece back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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