Gibson LG-2 Nathaniel Rateliff Western Guitar 

I have my dad's old 60 LG2,sweet little guitar 👍

@@kevinkendall3122 Lucky you .....hang onto it and make more music history with it. :-)

I have a 50s LG2 and J45. Between those, I can jam to anything! Great guitars, nice full necks.

Thanks Roy - truly appreciate the kind words! Only problem is that I feel the same way - it's torture to repeatedly fall in love and have to hand em' back over :)

@@quintonking9960 always in enjoy you demos on these guitars. 😆

I would also like to see this

Me 3!

Sign me up for that one too!

Yes please. I would love this exact comparison.

i need this comparison so bad. there is no chance that a guitar store has both in stock at the same time.

I'm a Martin gal , but wanted a Gibson. The 50's Lg2 has a thicker neck that I like . It's not like a baseball bat , (I have small hands) , but fits my hand well and I don't get cramps in my hand when playing long gigs. So , (for me) I usually go for the modified V neck in any guitar.

@@BaktaBak3 I'm assuming this is a short-scale which also makes it easier to play in comparison to Martins. I also have small hands so I might consider this one based on your response. Cheers.

sure that would be great here’s how the review will go with these two gibson fan boys. the gibson is wonderful , the neck is perfect its resonant the bindings are great the sunburst is classic . the taylor is great but its not a gibson and the gibson has the nitrocellulose finish. My guess is quentin doesnt even own a gibson

Hi scottmayre and Chris - I've tried using the narrower picks like the FK slick, but coming from a bluegrass flatpick style, I've honed in on the Herco flat thumbpicks - medium or heavy gauge. That's what I'm using in this and other demos. Best part is that when I inevitably step on em' and break off the thumb wrap, I still have a perfectly good flat pick - thanks for watching!

@@quintonking9960 Hey Quinton, I love ur reviews, do u ever use longer nails when u play? I used to use dunlop thumb picks, but decided to stick w/nails and fingerstyle.

Hi ematt98 - you may know that after demoing a ceo-7, I was so impressed that I took it home with me - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CKD1dPiM9Nk.html I put a K&K Trinity Pro in and it's really performing well. To my ear, the ceo-7 was broader with a touch more low-end (which appealed to me coming from playing dreadnoughts). I play in a number of "bluegrassy" duets and trios where I feel like the lower-end helps me cover more tonal space as an accompanist. That said, I really liked this Gibson and I could definitely see many applications. The Gibson seemed more mid-range punchy which perhaps would let it cut through other instruments a little better for snappy rhythm and crisper solos. I would also suppose that with a good pickup (definitely like the Trinity Pro myself), the Gibson could be dialed in and some additional bottom end added and/or tweaked to whatever your preference might be. All that said, there's really no substitute for getting your hands on em' and just playing to get a feel - always recommend sitting in front while someone else plays too in order to really hear what's coming out the front. I don't think you'd be disappointed with either one of these options. . . good hunting and thanks for watching!

@@quintonking9960 can confirm, the CEO-7 rules. Coupled with my Boucher HG56 (for finger picking) I have finally found my two guitars to grow old with.

@@quintonking9960 say no more. I think that has answered my question.

@@quintonking9960 Thanks for the review and the great response here. I've been looking for a small bodied guitar that "spoke" to me for a while, I tried a CEO-7 which is a great guitar but for some reason seemed "brighter" than what I wanted and I couldn't pull the trigger on it (ended up with a 000-28 EC sunburst). But now I'm back to wanting a smaller guitar and stumbled up the LG-2 Rateliff which seems to check so many boxes for what I want to do with it (think stripped down Rateliff, Fleet Foxes, Gregory Alan Isakov, Wilco, Lone Bellow and others), and the LG-2 seems like a warm, sweet-sounding ready-out-of-the box solution. Based on a few videos, and especially this one, I just ordered one (things being what they are, can't try before I buy - not available near me) and can't wait to get it! Do you think it would work even for a poor (low skilled) and mostly strummer guitarist like me?

To my understanding both guitars are essentially new.

You suck. And it’s ‘Rateliff’, not ‘Ratliff’. Kind regards, Alex.