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Old 12-31-2013, 07:08 PM
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Archtop. Circa 1945 - 46.

What say you? Looking for impressions from any of you with experience or knowledge of that model/time period.

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Old 01-01-2014, 09:33 AM
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Sure, why not? It's a 16" parallel braced cutaway acoustic archtop built in the immediate post-war period when production ramped up bigtime. I have two '47 Gibsons and they are, as one might expect, quite a lot of fun.
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Old 01-01-2014, 11:40 AM
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That period of Gibson archtops is great. Guitars vary, but the odds from those years are very good. If you have the opportunity to take care of one for a while, don't miss your chance.
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