Gibson CF-100 Flat Top Acoustic Guitar (1950)
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Gibson CF-100 Model Flat Top Acoustic Guitar (1950), made in Kalamazoo, Michigan, sunburst top, dark stained back and sides finish, mahogany back, sides and neck, spruce top, rosewood fingerboard, original brown soft shell case.
Here is a lovely example of an uncommon Gibson flattop from the first year of production. The CF-100 is an unusual guitar for its time, as the concept of a cutaway flattop guitar was quite novel in 1950. Extremely common today, the use of a cutaway on a flattop body was radical for 1950 making this a guitar very much ahead of its time. While the instrument is generally similar to the non-cutaway LG-2, it is considerably fancier in appearance and has a rather different feel. The top is triple bound and the back and fingerboard are single bound, and the headstock carries a pearl Gibson logo and crown inlay.
The rosewood fingerboard is inlaid with pearloid trapezoids, in a shape that would become much more familiar when used on the Les Paul Standard. Gibson offered this model as either a straight acoustic guitar or with an ingenious added magnetic pickup as the CF-100E, and both were sold in limited numbers throughout the 1950's but are fairly rare today. Today this very attractive, forward-looking guitar makes perfect sense and we can only wonder why the players of the 1950's failed to warm to this excellent design.
Overall length is 39 1/2 in. (100.3 cm.), 14 5/16 in. (36.4 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 4 1/4 in. (10.8 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.). Excellent Condition.
Here is a lovely example of an uncommon Gibson flattop from the first year of production. The CF-100 is an unusual guitar for its time, as the concept of a cutaway flattop guitar was quite novel in 1950. Extremely common today, the use of a cutaway on a flattop body was radical for 1950 making this a guitar very much ahead of its time. While the instrument is generally similar to the non-cutaway LG-2, it is considerably fancier in appearance and has a rather different feel. The top is triple bound and the back and fingerboard are single bound, and the headstock carries a pearl Gibson logo and crown inlay.
The rosewood fingerboard is inlaid with pearloid trapezoids, in a shape that would become much more familiar when used on the Les Paul Standard. Gibson offered this model as either a straight acoustic guitar or with an ingenious added magnetic pickup as the CF-100E, and both were sold in limited numbers throughout the 1950's but are fairly rare today. Today this very attractive, forward-looking guitar makes perfect sense and we can only wonder why the players of the 1950's failed to warm to this excellent design.
Overall length is 39 1/2 in. (100.3 cm.), 14 5/16 in. (36.4 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 4 1/4 in. (10.8 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.). Excellent Condition.