Old Gibson history/info help with pics.

briand

briand

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Re: Old Gibson history/info help with pics.

dont know about info but that is a killer guitar. how does she play?
 
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The Golden Boy said:
The best I've found...

http://www.provide.net/~cfh/gibson.html

I don't see mention of an L-40, but starting about a quarter of the way down there's a bunch of identifying features...
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Thanks, It looks like they dropped the zero in the stamps. They must have used double digit stamps for up coming models back in the day.

It looks to be an L-4 standard model around 1935.
 
Re: Old Gibson history/info help with pics.

mrfjones said:
dont know about info but that is a killer guitar. how does she play?
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She plays good but not any better then a new model of same caliber that you can get now days do to technology and such. She is a lot more delicate then guitars of now.

She does have a lot of things going for her such as nostalgia and the smell of an old guitar that puts her up at the top.
 
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Here is the latest info on this guitar.

I have seen a close up picture of him (the original owner) with the guitar and it looked like he was in his late thirties. My bride is 26 her mom is 45 her mom’s mom just passed away three weeks ago at 67 so I am just estimating the guitars age at 70. It looks like the guitar pic in the L-4 models but with f sounds that started in 1935 it could be a younger guitar seeing how that model was made from 1935 and discontinued in 1956.
 
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I'd guess no earlier than 1945, the Gibson logo is the gold screen, like what is on an LP Junior- or any of the lower end post-war models.
 
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The more I'm looking at it, the Gibson logo, inlays and binding are your keys. As yours has dot inlays, no binding on the fretboard or the pickguard and single binding on the body- top only- that says 1945-46.
 
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looks like the joint charlie christian used to play...
 
Re: Old Gibson history/info help with pics.

The Golden Boy said:
The more I'm looking at it, the Gibson logo, inlays and binding are your keys. As yours has dot inlays, no binding on the fretboard or the pickguard and single binding on the body- top only- that says 1945-46.
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Ok I found some more numbers inside the treble f hole here is how they look (4271 23). I am thinking the more I look at the L-40 (inside the bass f hole) that the top of the 4 is not all there and what looks to be a 0 that is the same height as the partial 4. If you finish of the 4 it would leave room to make the 0 into an 8. So I think it is an L-48 basic guitar and the numbers on the treble side are the batch numbers and it is in the 1946 to 1952 range.
 
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