Gibson SJ Southern Jumbo Flat Top Acoustic Guitar (1950)
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Gibson SJ Southern Jumbo Model Flat Top Acoustic Guitar (1950), made in Kalamazoo, Michigan, sunburst top, dark back and sides finish, mahogany back and sides, spruce top.
The SJ or "Southern Jumbo" sometimes feels like a bit of a forgotten model in Gibson's postwar flat-top line; not as simple a working man's guitar as the more austere J-45, but not as yee-haw fancy as the SJ-200 or even the J-185. The SJ features the same general layout as the J-45 with a sunburst spruce top on a 16" slope-shouldered mahogany jumbo body, with a mahogany neck and rosewood fingerboard. There are multiple layers of binding around the body and soundhole and the fingerboard is bound with double parallalogram inlays.
This 1950 model has a big sound and makes a great honky-tonk guitar. Don Everly used a 1953 SJ to create the famous open-tuned chord hooks on the Everly Brothers' early records, and this guitar has that same combination of punch and warmth.
Overall length is 40 7/8 in. (103.8 cm.), 16 1/4 in. (41.3 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 5 3/4 in. (14.6 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.).
Very well-worn with an obvious bridge replacement, lots of pickwear, replaced tuners, and a small added headstock inlay. This ol' road dog looks funky but plays and sounds extremely well, and would be a great touring and recording guitar. Very Good Condition.
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The SJ or "Southern Jumbo" sometimes feels like a bit of a forgotten model in Gibson's postwar flat-top line; not as simple a working man's guitar as the more austere J-45, but not as yee-haw fancy as the SJ-200 or even the J-185. The SJ features the same general layout as the J-45 with a sunburst spruce top on a 16" slope-shouldered mahogany jumbo body, with a mahogany neck and rosewood fingerboard. There are multiple layers of binding around the body and soundhole and the fingerboard is bound with double parallalogram inlays.
This 1950 model has a big sound and makes a great honky-tonk guitar. Don Everly used a 1953 SJ to create the famous open-tuned chord hooks on the Everly Brothers' early records, and this guitar has that same combination of punch and warmth.
Overall length is 40 7/8 in. (103.8 cm.), 16 1/4 in. (41.3 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 5 3/4 in. (14.6 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.).
Very well-worn with an obvious bridge replacement, lots of pickwear, replaced tuners, and a small added headstock inlay. This ol' road dog looks funky but plays and sounds extremely well, and would be a great touring and recording guitar. Very Good Condition.