{"product_id":"kalamazoo-kg-34-sport-model-flat-top-acoustic-guitar-1938-4358","title":"Kalamazoo KG-3\/4 Sport Model Flat Top Acoustic Guitar (1938)","description":"Kalamazoo KG-3\/4 Sport Model Model Flat Top Acoustic Guitar, c. 1938, made in Kalamazoo, Michigan, sunburst top, dark back and sides finish, mahogany back and sides, spruce top; mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard, original black soft shell case. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis very cool little 3\/4 guitar was a relatively late addition to Gibson's budget Kalamazoo line, available from 1937-41. Built on the body pattern of 1920's TG-1 tenor guitar, the just over 12\" wide \"Sport Model\" is a dainty tight-waisted design compared to the more familiar and rather stumpy body of the far more common Kalamazoo KG-11. The neck is very slim with a fairly sharp \"V\" profile and an ebony nut. The center-peak peghead is adorned with the standard Kalamazoo silkscreen logo, with \"Sport Model\" underneath, and early Kluson strip tuners. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe top \"sports\" a typically nice late-30's wide sunburst, with single binding on the edge and soundhole and a small firestripe celluloid pickguard. The sound is bright and tight...this is a cool little blues picker and would make a great high-strung \"Nashville\" tuned guitar. While likely intended for young students this is still a nicely made instrument fully the equal of other Kalamazoo instruments, and represents an unusual value in a pre-WWII \"travel guitar\" with full Gibson appointments. A fairly rare small-body Gibson design and dare we say an awfully cute little guitar.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOverall length is 36 7\/8 in. (93.7 cm.), 12 5\/8 in. (32.1 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 4 in. (10.2 cm.) in depth at side, taken at the end block. Scale length is 22 3\/4 in. (578 mm.). Width of nut is 1 5\/8 in. (41 mm.). Very clean for a 1930's guitar; some small areas of top wear between the fingerboard and pickguard that appear to have been colored in and one small repaired back crack, otherwise just light play wear. A very nice example, one of the best we have ever seen. Excellent + Condition.","brand":"Kalamazoo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853295898764,"sku":"4358","price":2600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/8702\/3756\/files\/01_e59770b9-3b0c-49c8-a51f-4d94ba0a6c0e.jpg?v=1774333470","url":"https:\/\/retrofret.com\/products\/kalamazoo-kg-34-sport-model-flat-top-acoustic-guitar-1938-4358","provider":"RetroFret","version":"1.0","type":"link"}