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Pardon my ignorance, but I don’t understand why it’s a Southern Jumbo that you picked as the one modern guitar that is basically the same as the CW? I would have thought your Hummingbird would be the one that’s structurally the same?

Sounds like the perfect singing companion. So mellow & just smooth.

The newer one has a noticeable brighter tone to it, yet it still has that distinct Hummingbird richness on the bronze strings. The '68 has that unmistakable sound of richly pronounced bronze strings & typical diminished steel & a beautifully subdued reverberation that only time can give to a select wood instrument. They were designed with vocal accompaniment in mind & '68 is the last year for Brazilian Rosewood sides & screw on pick guards & first year of the bottom belly bridge (My personal favourite year actually)👍👍

I have a mid 70’s M36, great tone, but the narrow nut makes it sit in the case most of the time. I heard they increased nut width on later models?

It’s laminate rosewood, not maple. Not that it really matters.

I heard the brighter tone on the new one right off the bat . I prefer the 68's tone . Thank you for the comparison

I just got this version, which seems the same as that one. It's a beautiful guitar for the money, and you make it sound great, I'm going to try and learn from you! *SNIP* New Kalamazoo KGN-12-F Oriole Pre-War Tribute Acoustic Guitar Flame Maple $369.00 Fox Guitars and the author of the book “The Other Brands of Gibson” presents a brand new tribute to the legendary pre-WWII Gibson-made Kalamazoo KGN-12 “Oriole” flat-top acoustic guitars. Construction features include: solid red spruce top with spruce x-bracing; flamed maple laminate sides and back (ladder-braced); solid maple neck; mahogany kerfed lining; 3-ply celluloid tortoise top binding and 1-ply tortoise back binding and matching tortoise heel cap and end stripe, 3-ply sound hole binding; C-profile maple neck with truss rod (adjustable inside the body below the fingerboard - wrench included); Vintage tinted glossy nitrocellulose lacquer finish, black head stock with white Kalamazoo logo and Oriole decal; High quality 18:1 individual tuners with ivory buttons; solid Indian rosewood fingerboard with MOP dots and ABS side dots, solid rosewood bridge with bone saddle and black ABS pins; bone nut; celluloid fire stripe pickguard. Guitar has a deep body that produces a fat resonant tone with plenty of punch akin to guitars with larger bodies. Great for strumming or finger-picking. Comes with custom printed padded case.

The '68 sounds warmer to my ears. Unfortunately I am playing fingerstyle blues all my life (I can't even play with a pick) and therefore I love to play on my 000 martin's with a modified V neck.

How do you find the pickup? Would love to hear a sample di recording.

I wish I could play as good as you and had lessons to learn especially all the music you've been playing very good

I own and love a couple of Eastmans, but something seems to have happened to this brand that has practically destroyed its attractive prices. I got a Gibson L-00 walnut used but mint for 1000 bucks recently. Haven't seen this Eastman anywhere for under 1400. It's nice that their quality is being appreciated, but to me it was always a "great for the money" brand, not a "you get what you pay for" brand.

I'd love to hear a Rosewood j-45 compared to a Hummingbird. I sold my 64' Countrywestern and I'm trying to fill that hole.

What gauge pick are you using my friend???? It really makes a difference to the tone using different gauge picks. You have a fabulous collection of guitars!!

This was great to see on your channel. I know you’ve said, “you didn’t come here for the stories, you came to hear the guitar”. Well, I love a good story. Twenty-five years ago, a co-worker of mine was moving and noticed something in the corner of the attic that he hadn’t seen before. Lo and behold, it was a crappy original faux-croc Gibson cardboard case from 1961 with a beautiful LG-0 inside. It had one bent/broken tuning peg and someone put it up there and forgot about it. Amazingly, it weathered beautifully somehow and has no cracks, flat top, straight neck. I love the tortoise shell binding too! Well, co-worker asks me if I want to buy a broken vintage guitar, but before I get back to him he sold it for $300. I felt pretty dejected, until I learn who bought it. My old man worked at the same company and had worked with my co-worker years before. He had heard about it and bought it straightaway. So, let’s just say it’s in the family now. It’s a great living room guitar and records beautifully. The guitar is 63 years old, but that is old growth mahogany and the sound is unbelievable! Grabbing a slide or get into some old blues picking will conjure up the ghost of Robert Johnson. Thanks for bringing this “student model” guitar into the spotlight, it’s a gem.

The 68' might be built with heavy X braces (before the dble X in norlin era). Would be interesting to see a side by side comparison with an older hummy. However, they both sound very nice, full with deep woody tones. As close as they might be, the new cooked top hummy will probably sound better than the old 68' in a few years. It has incredible overtones for a brand new guitar.

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I have an M36 and it’s my main guitar. Great for finger picking , flat picking and strumming. Very comfortable to play. The larger top, forward shifted scolloped bracing and the shallow body depth give it a nice mellow bass with clean trebles.

Thanks for the review, good quality sound on your video. The M36 despite the shallow body depth, from what i can hear from the video, it does seem to still have quite good bass, you reckon?

I have a Fullers Edition AJ- it took a while to get used to the (big C) neck and the brighter sound from the Rosewood (over Mahogany on a J45) - I get more attached to it each time I play it. It's unique and it fills a niche the others just can't. I'm really glad to have the AJ. That said, you can make great music on any of these great Gibsons. Nice vid!

Nice history lesson. But it would have been better to let us hear how the guitar sounds.

Wow......I am lucky enough to own this same guitar........ your demonstration is one of the best and most diverse styles I've ever heard.

GIBSON!!!

Ok nice to listen to your video,, my question is,, I own a larrivee oo 40r beautiful guitar,, I was offered a larrivee L 09 custom with moon spruce top rosewood back and sides for $1800. Do you think it is enough different to justify buying,, unfortunately I can’t play it before buying

This was my first guitar. Given to me by my uncle Matt in 1996

What is the name of the song at 5:20 ???

The Eastman sounds better.

I just bought a used L-03 today with a LR Baggs SL from Reverb for 1500 including shipping. Can’t wait to get it. Love what I am hearing here.

Tried them all...chose a custom shop deluxe songwriter

Both nice but I would keep the guild

grossartig Greetings from the sunny climes of Basle, Switzerland

Both superb guitars but side by side the gibson sounds muddy and lacking dynamic in comparison 👍

1994 00-05 here. Small bodied but not a parlor guitar. Somewhat rare. Not many made.

warm and tame and beautiful is what i am hearing. what a gorgeous guitar. man, you're really beginning to dig deep into boutique territory with you guitars 'n things!

Great review. I always look forward to a Unicorn. felt the tonewoods were too "woody" but not in a good way. My ears felt a lot of restraint and not much chime at all. Good if you played Black Sabbath and Neil Young in double drop D or DADGAD tuning. It looks very nice but it sounds like a what I would expect a unicorn of a guitar in Redwood over Walnut. I do have a Larrivee OM-3 which is Moon over Bhilwara and that Bhilwara is more of a mahogany adjacent type of EIR, it is discontinued now. Not sure if it was discontinued because of its Unicorn status or they just ran out of the woodpile. I love it though.

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Hi, sounds lovely. May I ask how much you had to pay for the whole process? Thanks!

Flat top strings? Which side is flat and how do you orientate it 360 degree's it would take a years to restring a guitar

A versatile Martin to be played over and over! Congratulations!

Rosewood back and sides not maple! Usually Taylor's come with Elixir. And it's out of tune.

It’s great that you chose multiple genres for your demos, they are the most pleasant on guitar review UA-cam

Great review, all your reviews are great Dave. This is a unicorn that you do not see much or less a thorough review. Great playing too. I like your choice of music and not some Billy Strings fast bluegrass. Thanks !!!

I have a question, what model of sj200 is that? Why does your say standard on the headstock? I’m looking for new ones and they don’t have it written

Sj 200 in this vid all day! Tone so warm and nice!

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I gave you a like once you stopped talking and played the guitar. Sounds great. You are very good at playing.

I just bought this guitar at a guitar shop in Santa Cruz, CA. I played many high end guitars, and I'm with you; it felt the most comfortable and being a finger picker, it was perfect for me. Thanks for the video.

Shame I live in Melbourne Australia, would love to get my hands on one of these. ❤️🎶

The shinny one sounds definitely better.

Sounds expensive

This is the 800th yt video (along with my own experience) I'm a hog guy through and through. Rw in all guitars sounds constrained to me. Not bad by any means, just doesn't fill in the nuanced tone gaps mahogany does. To my ears at least. Cheers.