Model SJ
One afternoon in 1968, I watched a drunken
sailor with a pillow case slung over his shoulder
stagger into a pawn shop in New London, CT.
Since the bag on his shoulder was very guitar-like,
as soon as he emerged counting his money, I
went into the shop to see what he'd sold. After
twenty minutes of bickering, I emerged with
a very well worn twenty year old Gibson SJ.
As I already had a guitar I loved, the SJ was
only around for a couple of months, but almost
as soon as I'd sold it to a friend, I was sorry.
Forty years later, the friend still has that
guitar, and it is still one of the very best
guitars I have ever known.
In recent times older instruments of this
short scale design have become extremely popular,
and their value has soared. While over the
years we have built a few one-off commissioned
SJ-type guitars, we've now decided to add this
design to our roster of formal models.
As we built the prototype of this model
we did our best to photograph each step in
the process and uploaded images of each day's
accomplishments to a blog. We've reworked that
so you can see this guitar from start to finish
in our Model
SJ Blog Revisited. |
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SJ Model Specs |
Body
Width: 16 "
Body Length: 20 "
Body Depth: 4.375 "
Scale Length: 25.0 "
Nut Width: 1.75 "
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