these kind of guitars are where you get to be a good player. nothing to play with just plug and play. great sounding a wonderful story. thank you for sharing.
Beautiful guitar Leonard, for what it’s worth I think it looks better without the pick guard, I have an old epiphone arch top acoustic and I took the pickguard off , but I do understand that yours has a sentimental value, keep thinking of it as another part of the guitar’s story, take care ✌️🎸🧷
Lovely guitar, lovely backstory! Glad it's still working for you! I have a great 1978 Yairi Nylon String that someone managed to put their foot thru back in the '80s but a local NZ luthier managed to patch it up for me - virtually invisible fix. It still records beautifully, incredibly rich harmonics . . . like a Steinway or Bosendorfer with the sustain pedal held down! 😀
That sneaky Allison😱 Those girls can really sneak things up on us when we don’t expect it!! Love that great playing!! Dare I say Jazzy??🤔 Great guitar !!!
Looks and sounds spectacular. These little bumps along the journey always seem to give these old beauties more character in my view. can't explain why, but the guitars i own that are a bit beat up and well loved play the best and even make me sound like a decent player (at times) Cheers Len.
I think the guitar looks better without a pick guard. Your guitar was born the same year as me. Would you like to hear a long story about all the stuff that's gone to crapola with my body?
Hi. Have a mid 60s Broadway with a similar c/v neck (its old headstock shape so probably sat in the Gibson takeover for a few years) and New York pick ups. Is the replacement p/u a New York copy - sounds really good and deep!!!! Nice plaking.
Yes, Gibson used up all the New York parts before making their own. I’m a little surprised to hear of them in the mid 60s since I thought they’d pretty much exhausted the old stock by about 62, but the history’s pretty murky from back then. Thanks so much for watching.
Haven’t gotten that one in my hands. The general consensus seems to be it’s a nice guitar, which I would expect since I own the 150th Sheraton. That said, I’d expect a very different experience to an original.
Nice wife ❗ Great playing 🎸🎵🎶👍 I don't understand why someone wants to pay extra for a " relic " worn guitar ‼️ I'm buying a new guitar, I want it looking and feeling new and I will make it relic myself ‼️ It's like buying a new car, are you going to buy a brand new car off the lot , with bald tires , dents on it for extra money ⁉️🤣😂
That’s pretty much where I am. The fact is, it can be made with a worn in feel without looking beat up, which seems the best of both worlds. Thanks for watching.
Nice old Zephyr and a great story. I had identical model for twenty some years. For some time it was my only guitar. Eventually I went in a different direction and sold it though. One thing about it I never understood was the tone circuit. It didn’t use a cap as one would expect but had stacked pots and an iron coil resistor. As far as I know it was original. It had a serial number of 602xx Any insight into the tone circuit would be awesome Thanks
I believe you’re right, but those pots are long gone. It’s been a couple decades or so but I seem to recall the pots were going bad when the pickup died. At first my Luther replaced the pots with a conventional arrangement and the pickup with a 70s Gibson mini humbucker. It sounded nice but ultimately I wanted it to look original so I had the custom pickup built into the old housing, which I was glad I’d kept. This pickup suits the guitar really well. I told Pete what I was after and he describes it as a cross between a Charlie Christian and a gold foil.
