Guitar Forensics with Mark and an Interesting Gibson L-00
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2023
- This 1934 Gibson L-00 arrived at Folkway Music recently, and the owner thought it was a near-mint natural finished 90-year-old guitar. Mark walks us through the process of determining what this guitar's true history is really all about.
Cool guitar and cool story behind it!
always love your videos
I love Gibson L and LG series guitars.
This was probably done at Gibson's expense under the original lifetime warranty. I've heard it suggested that avoiding warranty work was a primary reason that their tops and bridge plates got heavier and heavier over the years. Where I work I've been fortunate to see old Gibsons with factory refins, new headstock veneers or fingerboards but never a new top. But then, maybe I have and didn't detect it. Cool video!
A non original,a horse of many colors. Dealers have told me that the condition of originality was the greatest determining factor in the instruments price. We had a humming dove at one time. The neck of a dove,the body of a humming bird,with a dove pick guard. But of course gibsonians were never consistent from year to year in production.
I have what I think is a natural finish 1944 l00 but I have no idea because I can’t find numbers anywhere inside or anything.
It was my grandfather’s
Is it me or are the back and sides lighter in colour than a 30s L-00? Mine have been darker. Do you think the back and sides were refins?
The entire body is refinished.
Wait wait wait! Lemme guess what it is. Is it an inter-War Gibson?
Interesting, since Gibson would have had to pull the neck off to replace the top, at a time when such an operation may have still been rare. Do you think Gibson pulled the neck off as is done today for a neck set?
Hard to say. The guitar has been completely refinished (except for the headstock face), which makes it difficult to guess. But as the fretboard and frets were 1930’s issue, there’s a good chance the neck was removed (with the fretboard) for the retop.
if you like listening to stories about guitars, i did a series about m current lineup....