What would you order in the Gibson Custom Shop?

[Jimmy Recard]

What would you order, money permitted, if Gibson had a Martin style custom shop? I’d probably like a Hummingbird but with more of a D28 feeling neck, maybe with a tad more width at the bridge too.

[rmp]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Recard

What would you order, money permitted, if Gibson had a Martin style custom shop? I’d probably like a Hummingbird but with more of a D28 feeling neck, maybe with a tad more width at the bridge too.

I know that Gibson has their own custom order setup called The Made To Measure Program.

I'm pretty sure they offer acoustic guitars for custom builds as well as electric guitars.

[Brucebubs]

I'm happy with my Custom Shop Historic 1957 SJ-200 .. I do like a high gloss finish over the thin varnish finish but if it's part of what makes it sound so good .. I can live with it.

[Robin, Wales]

I'd have a 1944 style Gibson banner era LG-2 with the maple plywood back and sides they used in that year (dark stained) and spruce top, sunburst finish, V neck but with a truss rod, 12" radius fretboard 1.72" nut. Perhaps built with a maple (dark stained) rather than mahogany neck.

But that is never going to happen

[RalphH]

Originally Posted by rmp

I know that Gibson has their own custom order setup called The Made To Measure Program.

I'm pretty sure they offer acoustic guitars for custom builds as well as electric guitars.

I think they stopped doing that a few years back sadly.

As for what I'd have them make me... If they could make me a hummingbird that was slightly smaller all around, with a 24.22" scale, but sounded exactly like my full-sized hummingbird, well that'd be my ultimate guitar, but I suspect the laws of physics may have to be bent.

So I guess I'm happy with the custom shop i have.

[rmp]

Originally Posted by RalphH

I think they stopped doing that a few years back sadly.

strange, I thought I read a thread in the Gibson forum where some one just recently went thru the M2M program. Perhaps it was yet another resurrected thread and I didn't pickup on the dates.

[Steve DeRosa]

Two instruments - a sunburst J-15 and a Kalamazoo Epiphone "Carl Perkins" Emperor thinline electric, both dead-stock...

[RalphH]

Originally Posted by rmp

strange, I thought I read a thread in the Gibson forum where some one just recently went thru the M2M program. Perhaps it was yet another resurrected thread and I didn't pickup on the dates.

Or maybe they've relaunched it. I thought it died around the time Ren Ferguson left. Google must know....

[fuman]

I'd get a Blonde J-185 with a torrefied red spruce top, a maple neck, and ebony bridge and fretboard.

[Jim Owen]

Probably just a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe.

[gmel555]

SJ-200, Thin varnish natural torrefied spruce over flame maple back & sides so I can channel my inner Pete Townsend and Greg Lake when the need arises.

[Mr. Bill]

I would not order anything. I would have to play it first. I would avoid the square-shouldered models. They don't have the magic that the best of the round-shouldered guitars have. The right J45, J35 or Advanced Jumbo would be my pick,

[zombywoof]

While I do not know about Martin, Gibson apparently will not build a guitar in any configuration you want. A guy on another forum tried to order a 12 fret L-00 with various upgrades and was told that a 12 fret version was not available but they would build him a 14 fret L-00 Legend with similar upgrades. So I am guessing if I asked a Magic 8 Ball about chances of getting say a 12 fret L-00 with raised fingerboard or a J35 with three non-scalloped tone bars the answer would be "Don't Count On It."

[davenumber2]

12 fret AJ with this burst

[brencat]

Probably a banner style J-45, but with the double ring rosette of the 1960s, J-35/AJ Advanced-X bracing, teardrop pickguard, rectangular bridge with cut-through long saddle, and their “Luthier’s Choice” fat neck that has 1.77” nut and 2 5/16 string spacing. Voiced to be as wet and sustainy as possible.