Kalamazoo KG-11 Flat Top Acoustic Guitar (1937)
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Kalamazoo KG-11 Model Flat Top Acoustic Guitar (1937), made in Kalamazoo, Michigan, sunburst top, dark back and sides finish, mahogany back, sides and neck,spruce top, rosewood fingerboard, original brown chipboard case.
A superb example of the smaller-bodied flat top model from Gibson's pre-WWII budget Kalamazoo line. The KG-11 has no equivalent Gibson model, it features a shorter body with a truncated upper bout compared to the KG-14 or Gibson's L-00. The KG-11 is built of the same quality materials as period Gibsons but is ladder braced and has no truss rod. The top is single-bound with a sunburst finish showing the fairly large highlighted area typical of the later 1930's, with a single-bound soundhole edge and firestripe celluloid pickguard. This guitar has a subtly sunbursted headstock face, which is not a common feature.
Overall length is 38 in. (96.5 cm.), 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) in depth at side, taken at the end block. Scale length is 24 3/4 in. (629 mm.). Width of nut is 1 3/4 in. (44 mm.). This is an absolutely superb original example of a KG-11; as good sounding and playing a guitar as these get! The bridge has been neatly lowered and re-lacquered over; there are no other repairs or alterations and very little finish wear. Really as clean as we generally expect to find a 1930's instrument, complete with the original brown SSC. Excellent + Condition.
A superb example of the smaller-bodied flat top model from Gibson's pre-WWII budget Kalamazoo line. The KG-11 has no equivalent Gibson model, it features a shorter body with a truncated upper bout compared to the KG-14 or Gibson's L-00. The KG-11 is built of the same quality materials as period Gibsons but is ladder braced and has no truss rod. The top is single-bound with a sunburst finish showing the fairly large highlighted area typical of the later 1930's, with a single-bound soundhole edge and firestripe celluloid pickguard. This guitar has a subtly sunbursted headstock face, which is not a common feature.
Overall length is 38 in. (96.5 cm.), 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) in depth at side, taken at the end block. Scale length is 24 3/4 in. (629 mm.). Width of nut is 1 3/4 in. (44 mm.). This is an absolutely superb original example of a KG-11; as good sounding and playing a guitar as these get! The bridge has been neatly lowered and re-lacquered over; there are no other repairs or alterations and very little finish wear. Really as clean as we generally expect to find a 1930's instrument, complete with the original brown SSC. Excellent + Condition.