

Find out about some of the vintage Gibson electric acoustic models by following the links below. This one has a huge neck and sounds really rich sound, particularly with single-note picking. All original as far as I know, except for bridge I had replaced a couple of years ago (but still have the original if you want to put it back in). The allure and legend of the Gibson J-45 lives on in the new Custom Historic 1942 Banner J-45. Very comfortable to play with warm lows and crisp highs, low action on a straight neck, gorgeous sunburst, With original case, ultra rare in this condition. Join the leader in mutual relations services and find a date today. Gibson L-00 Standard Acoustic-Electric Guitar Vintage Sunburst. Acoustic guitars deliver sound without electronic amplification and through the body of the instrument. The standard way an acoustic guitar is constructed is that the body is built independently of the neck.


1959 Gibson Country Western acoustic guitar ApRecent Posts. Nothing that impacts the playability or sound. FAQ Store Policies & FAQ Gibson Guitar Specs (2015 - 2019) OUR COMPANY. Thread starter 55GibsonLPJR Start date 55GibsonLPJR Member. I installed the LR Baggs pickup which sounds amazing through my Princeton Reverb. It feels great all the way up and down with a low and smooth action. This guitar has been around the block and shows many signs of wear. MARLIN SIDEWINDER I’ve covered this model in depth in its own article, but I should draw attention to the Sidewinder Bass (Model KB34), which is also depicted in this advert, and came priced at £129 in a choice of five colours.When it comes to used and vintage instruments, we only sell the finest so you. Especially given that the Blue Fin’s price also included a gig bag, the guitar was pretty evidently a tier below the rest of the range in terms of budget. There’s no stipulation that the pickups are wax-potted, so I suspect this cheaper instrument used pickups more typical of the Korean output of the day. Priced at £139 it was the cheapest of the advertised guitars. MARLIN BLUE FIN The Blue Fin was a roughly vee-bodied rock machine featuring two humbuckers, a locking trem and a maple neck. All the finishes were metallic, but only two – the Red and the Charcoal – were available on the left-handed models. But after Squier began shipping much cheaper instruments from Korea, the Marlin brand suffered, hence the need to push the guitars hard in advertisements The 1988 ad above shows four models of guitar, including the formerly market-busting Sidewinder.īut I wonder how many people knew or remembered that Marlin also offered amplifiers? The guitars in the ad are as follows MARLIN STINGRAY Priced at £159, the K36KT Stingray was Marlin’s locking trem-fitted HSS ‘Superstrat’, featuring a coil-tappable humbucker and two single coils (all wax-potted), and coming in either Red, Dark Blue, Charcoal Fire, Pearl White or Black. To briefly recap, before, the Marlin Sidewinder had been virtually unchallenged as outright bestselling guitar in the UK. Below you’ll find a 1988 UK advert for the Marlin guitars, which was part of a drive to maintain the brand’s position as a bestseller. I’ve already covered the on this blog, but this post adds some wider snapshots of this big-hitting range of 1980s Korean instruments.

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