'It's doubtful that any guitar, flat-top or archtop, acoustic or electric, or any combination of same, can surpass the Super Jumbo 200 in distinctiveness of appearance.The allure of the Super Jumbo 200 indeed ranges far and wide, touching rock, pop, blues, gospel, country, folk, hillbilly, and of course cowboy (as in country-western). The brace is still present in this guitar, but so is that wonderfully rich J-200 sound. But both totally killed the J-200's tone, so many owners removed this brace' (). Apparently this brace was added to keep the front of the bridge from sinking. In the middle of the brace is a large metal screw, held against the top. One of the changes to the J-200 specs in 1961 was 'the addition of a large, suspended wooden brace under the top, between the bridge and the soundhole. Gibson hang-tag warranty/booklet.Īlthough this guitar has a '2' (second) under the serial number, we can only assume that a couple of the tiny surface marks on the top must have been present when the guitar was made.

Housed in the original Gibson black hardshell case with yellow plush lining (9.00). The back of the guitar is nice and flamey, as is the back of the neck. There are a couple of tiny surface marks on the top of the guitar, a little bit of finish checking, and some minor fretwear to the original frets, mainly confined to the first six frets. This guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition. 'Closed' moustache tailpiece with four pearl inlays and adjustable rosewood bridge. Brown celluloid pickguard elaborately etched in a floral design in white and yellow. Individual Kluson Super tuners with tulip-shaped metal buttons. Serial number ('812626') impressed into the back of the headstock with a '2' underneath it.

The back of the headstock is black with a widow's peak. Black plastic truss-rod cover with white binding and with 'Custom' engraved in white. Black headstock with inlaid pearl 'Gibson' logo and pearl crown inlay.

The top of the guitar has seven-ply binding, the back has five-ply binding, the soundhole rings are in two groups of seven and three, and the fretboard and headstock are single-bound.

Highly figured curly maple back and sides, with a 'zipper' stripe down the center of the back, close-grained spruce top, five-piece curly maple and mahogany neck with a medium profile, and rosewood fretboard with a peak at the end of the fretboard, 20 jumbo frets, and inlaid pearl crest position markers. and has a fat nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches, a really nice medium neck profile and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. This 17-inch-wide 'King of the Flat Top Guitars' weighs just 5.60 lbs.

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