onewilyfool Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Pretty good price for basically a J-200....first thing I'd do is remove the pick guards....lol http://elderly.com/vintage/items/20U-14618.htm And what a few years of aging can do for the price! http://elderly.com/vintage/items/20U-13553.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParlourMan Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Strangely enough, I like this guard configuration in black & white... even though I really dislike black guitars, not so keen on the red/blonde config though.... overall though I must confess I quite like the much maligned double guard look, I may even do it to the J-45 I use live if it continues to take the battering it gets week in, week out... fair few bruises on her now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryn6490 Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Beuatiful guitar. I don't normally like guitars with two pickgaurds but that is one nice guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryn6490 Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 The 54 J-200 would be my dream guitar if/When I hit the lottery.....Along with my 1962 Chevy Corvette. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted March 22, 2013 Author Share Posted March 22, 2013 I've never played a double pickguard guitar before, especially with guards as big as Dwight's, but that MUST inhibit sound quality somehow???!!! GREAT as an eyecatcher on stage, but sound wise, I'm a'wonderin'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merseybeat1963 Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 The 54' I down right dig. Usually its some other mutant pickguard style on em but these are nice. Price..! But the price for such a guitar is very worth it. If Gibson had not revived the Gibson Acoustic guitar this would be selling for $20-30k. I'd check inside..under the top pickguard for severe wear though. Refinish of top & that guard put there mmm..worth a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobF_ Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Pretty good price for basically a J-200....first thing I'd do is remove the pick guards....lol http://elderly.com/v...s/20U-14618.htm And what a few years of aging can do for the price! http://elderly.com/v...s/20U-13553.htm Be very careful. You never know what you'll find under paint and such on a Gibson. Trust me, I know the hard way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Pretty good price for basically a J-200....first thing I'd do is remove the pick guards....lol http://elderly.com/vintage/items/20U-14618.htm And what a few years of aging can do for the price! http://elderly.com/vintage/items/20U-13553.htm The lefty pickguard on the '54 looks to me to be showing signs of out-gassing. Watch out! We may see guitar spontaneous combustion. Would that bum you out, or what? I keep out-gassing celluloid pickguards in a separate container. It's amazing how much damage they can do to a finish and to metal parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 looks like yosemite sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Looks like the love child of a J-200 and Everly Bros. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streamlights Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 There really needs to be an official name for that type of moustached pick-guard. looks like yosemite sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorod Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 I like the look of the 2nd one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorod Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 There really needs to be an official name for that type of moustached pick-guard. I thought it was the "Marlo Thomas" look...??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMELEYE Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Looks like Dwight's guitar is more the body shape of a J-185, not a J-200. I agree with retrorob, those guards should be called "Marlos". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParlourMan Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 There really needs to be an official name for that type of moustached pick-guard. bodes for a difficult conversation piece though, last night I plucked the old girls g-string, she sounds great considering the size of her moustache.... Psychology gives us the perfect opportunity to view the double guard as a soundhole for a mouth and locks of hair (if we want to be freudian about it) yet en masse we choose to refer to it it as a moustache... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Nilppeznaf Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 bodes for a difficult conversation piece though, last night I plucked the old girls g-string, she sounds great considering the size of her moustache.... Psychology gives us the perfect opportunity to view the double guard as a soundhole for a mouth and locks of hair (if we want to be freudian about it) yet en masse we choose to refer to it it as a moustache... hhahahahah get in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 bodes for a difficult conversation piece though, last night I plucked the old girls g-string, she sounds great considering the size of her moustache.... Psychology gives us the perfect opportunity to view the double guard as a soundhole for a mouth and locks of hair (if we want to be freudian about it) yet en masse we choose to refer to it it as a moustache... You are a sick, sick man. But funny........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorod Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 After a second look, The '54 on Elderly site is one of the best examples (IMO) of that double-guard look. http://elderly.com/v...s/20U-13553.htm Man, that rocks I have noticed with Elderly Instruments' ads....They usually don,t mention the sound of an instrument! Sometimes they say...."good sound" and then occassionly they say..."real good sound"....This is one of the latter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 I could live with either of those pickguards. Neither would be my first choice if I were looking for a guitar, but I'd be okay with the guitar if I owned it. The 1700's not a bad price, but I could do a lot with 8,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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