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DanKirkland
PostPosted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 10:47 pm 
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So I am doing some work Gratis for a friend. It's a family instrument with several "repairs" as per the usual course.

I'll post some pictures but my question is do any of you guys know what material was used for the bridge plates on the early 30s L-0s?

This particular one has had the bridge plate overlayed/replaced with a 1/2" thick chunk of pine and some other repairs that were inadequate to make it last. I don't know if the original plate is still under the pine or not but I'll find out as soon as I get the "plate" off.


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Hesh
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Hey Dan. Not sure so take this with a grain of salt but G*bson was very much a use what they had company back in the day and what we have here in Michigan is Maple.
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Hesh wrote:
Hey Dan. Not sure so take this with a grain of salt but G*bson was very much a use what they had company back in the day and what we have here in Michigan is Maple.


Hey Hesh, I understand, I wouldn't be surprised if it was something as soft as spruce on some of the cheaper models


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DanKirkland wrote:

Hey Hesh, I understand, I wouldn't be surprised if it was something as soft as spruce on some of the cheaper models


1933 Kalamazoo. Spruce patch

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From Dave Collins when asked about this:

Gibson mostly used what they had laying around on the floor....:) Most of the time it was maple although they did on occasion use spruce and even poplar at times. The spruce started around the time that they started producing low end, ladder braced instruments but again it was a function of what was kicking around the shop.

Obviously "configuration control" was not something that G*bson subscribed to all that much.....

Where we live and have our shop is pretty close to where G*bson started out and as such our area has lots of "employee guitars." Employee guitars were made out of seconds and dumpster diving parts and often look very G*bsonesque but lack the logo. We see these pushed as G*bson's at times too and they kind of sort of are but just the same kind of sort of are not either...

When I don't know what the heck G*bson did I am reminded of Cheech and Chong...

What look like....
Look like Maple to me....

What smell like....
What.....?
Smell like Maple to me...

And so on and so forth....:)
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Broken and backless 1933 L-00 - maple bridgplate:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/15337755106/in/album-72157646344222304/

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