Gibson LG-1 Flat Top Acoustic Guitar (1958)
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Gibson LG-1 Model Flat Top Acoustic Guitar (1958), made in Kalamazoo, Michigan, serial # T2752-20, sunburst top, dark back and sides finish, mahogany back and sides, spruce top; mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard, black hard shell case.
This is a played in example of the LG-1, Gibson's lowest budget flat top in the 1950's. While originally built to a price this is still a classy looking and good sounding guitar. The model is essentially identical to the next-in-line LG-2 but with simpler ladder-bracing under the top instead of the more elaborate X-pattern. The materials and cosmetics are otherwise exactly the same, with mahogany back and sides and a spruce top. The only way to tell the difference is to peer (or poke a finger) under the back edge of the soundhole! The top is finished in a stately sunburst, the back and sides natural mahogany and both are single bound. The mahogany neck has a plain dot-inlaid rosewood fingerboard and is topped by the standard Gibson-logo'd headstock with Kluson Deluxe tuners.
While designed as a budget guitar for student players and teaching studios the LG-1 in this period is still a very nicely made instrument, especially compared to most of its competitors. The sound is somewhat brighter and less sophisticated than its X-braced sisters, with something like a mix of Gibson and Stella characteristics. These days some folks actually like the barkier, bluesier tone of the ladder braced models better!
Overall length is 39 3/4 in. (101 cm.), 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm.) in depth at side, taken at the end block. Scale length is 24 3/4 in. (629 mm.). Width of nut is 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.).
This guitar shows some old wear and repair but is a nice player. There is general finish wear overall, with dings, dents and scrapes and some noticeable pickwear to the top centered around the soundhole. The top has repaired spruce grain splits by each side of the fingerboard extension and along the top edge of the pickguard; these are sealed but quite visible. There is another shorter split with an impact mark to the top off the front edge on the upper treble bout, and an almost mirror image crack on the lower treble bout. The back and sides are crack free but have a few deep dinks. The back of the neck is relatively clean with a few small dings.
The neck has been reset, a solid job but leaving a few signs; The heel overlaps a hair and the uppermost fingerboard dot is clouded. The fingerboard has been trued and refretted, with a few small divots still visible in the rosewood. Internally the guitar is original except for some added spruce patching under some of the top crack repairs and a brace reglue. The rosewood bridge is original with the retaining bolts under the pearl dots still intact, once lowered a hair on the treble side. The guitar plays very well with a most comfortable low action and bright and barky sound especially suited to fingerstyle blues and related styles. It resides in a modern HSC. Very Good + Condition.
This is a played in example of the LG-1, Gibson's lowest budget flat top in the 1950's. While originally built to a price this is still a classy looking and good sounding guitar. The model is essentially identical to the next-in-line LG-2 but with simpler ladder-bracing under the top instead of the more elaborate X-pattern. The materials and cosmetics are otherwise exactly the same, with mahogany back and sides and a spruce top. The only way to tell the difference is to peer (or poke a finger) under the back edge of the soundhole! The top is finished in a stately sunburst, the back and sides natural mahogany and both are single bound. The mahogany neck has a plain dot-inlaid rosewood fingerboard and is topped by the standard Gibson-logo'd headstock with Kluson Deluxe tuners.
While designed as a budget guitar for student players and teaching studios the LG-1 in this period is still a very nicely made instrument, especially compared to most of its competitors. The sound is somewhat brighter and less sophisticated than its X-braced sisters, with something like a mix of Gibson and Stella characteristics. These days some folks actually like the barkier, bluesier tone of the ladder braced models better!
Overall length is 39 3/4 in. (101 cm.), 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm.) in depth at side, taken at the end block. Scale length is 24 3/4 in. (629 mm.). Width of nut is 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.).
This guitar shows some old wear and repair but is a nice player. There is general finish wear overall, with dings, dents and scrapes and some noticeable pickwear to the top centered around the soundhole. The top has repaired spruce grain splits by each side of the fingerboard extension and along the top edge of the pickguard; these are sealed but quite visible. There is another shorter split with an impact mark to the top off the front edge on the upper treble bout, and an almost mirror image crack on the lower treble bout. The back and sides are crack free but have a few deep dinks. The back of the neck is relatively clean with a few small dings.
The neck has been reset, a solid job but leaving a few signs; The heel overlaps a hair and the uppermost fingerboard dot is clouded. The fingerboard has been trued and refretted, with a few small divots still visible in the rosewood. Internally the guitar is original except for some added spruce patching under some of the top crack repairs and a brace reglue. The rosewood bridge is original with the retaining bolts under the pearl dots still intact, once lowered a hair on the treble side. The guitar plays very well with a most comfortable low action and bright and barky sound especially suited to fingerstyle blues and related styles. It resides in a modern HSC. Very Good + Condition.