Thread: J-45 vs J-50
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Old 01-04-2009, 01:50 AM
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Think it was just for a year or so around WWII. Don't believe they have re-issued the combination.You can hear one on Barenberg's recordings. Sounds great on the duets CD Not Too Far From The Tree by Bryan Sutton where they do Big Scotia.
Exactly right. Apparently, Gibson was running out of mahogany that was suitable and started using maple. There are also some maple LG-2's out there from the same period. I'd love a maple J-45.

Ken C, I did the same as you, except my "bible" was Gibson's Fabulous Flattops by Eldon Whitford, Dan Erlewine, and David Vinopal. Excellent book and one I still refer too (the pictures are awesome), but once I got into reading the posts by John Thomas, Willie Henkes and many others on the Vintage section of the umgf, it became apparent that GFF wasn't entirely accurate either. Many of the experts are still trying to unravel all the mysteries of vintage Gibson's, but more and more it seems to me like a hopeless task.

In any event, Henkes and Thomas are working on a book about Gibson during WWII that should be really interesting. Here's a website they set up about the Banner Gibson's that may interest some folks,
http://www.bannergibsons.com/
and of course, if you have a banner model, you may want to add it to the registry on that site.
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