double0blues Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 The recent threads on "Kenny Sultan' and "The allure of the small body" brought this to mind - it's an interesting conversion.. While Tom is primarily known as a vocalist and harmonica player, he is also an excellent guitar player and has released 4 solo guitar CDs apart from his musical partnership with Kenny Sultan. Acoustic Guitar magazine did an article on Tom & Kenny and included a side story on their guitars. Tom's is a converted 1936 Gibson 4-string PG-00... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedzep Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 The recent threads on "Kenny Sultan' and "The allure of the small body" brought this to mind - it's an interesting conversion.. While Tom is primarily known as a vocalist and harmonica player, he is also an excellent guitar player and has released 4 solo guitar CDs apart from his musical partnership with Kenny Sultan. Acoustic Guitar magazine did an article on Tom & Kenny and included a side story on their guitars. Tom's is a converted 1936 Gibson 4-string PG-00... Now I'm ticked! I lovingly stripped the crappy stain and poly recoat on my '36 PG-00 and thought about converting it, but was convinced it wouldn't handle 6 strings. Wish I went ahead after seeing this. Tom's a big 'ol boy...makes that geetar look like a uke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfox14 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 What an ugly conversion. At least put a "period correct" bridge on it and fix all the problems on the body. Personally, I would have left it as a PG-00 and bought an L-00 if you really wanted a '36 6-string. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedzep Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 What an ugly conversion. At least put a "period correct" bridge on it and fix all the problems on the body. Personally, I would have left it as a PG-00 and bought an L-00 if you really wanted a '36 6-string. I agree. Wassup w/ the bellied bridge? $2500-3000 coulda' scored an old L0 or L00. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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