04-11-2011, 10:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-11-2011, 10:15 PM by goaliehack.)
(04-11-2011, 01:41 PM)brettyboy link Wrote: So I actually now believe it is a J-50. I am still trying to find out the year for sure.
What you have is a J-50, which didn't begin production until 1947. Your particular guitar has 19 frets, which puts it before 1955, a wide slotted fixed saddle which puts it before '53, but a large reverse bridge which started in 1950. So the guitar is somewhere between 1950-1952. Those turners are non-original, but besides that it looks to be in pretty good shape for it's age.
By the way, Gibson is notorious for horrible serial number coding on vintage instruments.