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Introduction, General Specs, Serial Number/Year Info, etc.: Gibson vintage guitars history and collecting. A gloss-black plate is probably 1939 a crinkle-brown finish would be 1940.Vintage Guitars Info - Gibson collecting vintage gibson guitars Vintage Guitars Info's You never knew what Gibson was gonna do back then!īaz - The guitar that you describe sounds like it might be an EH185: a hollow body of curly maple w/ sunburst or natural finish a CC pickup and a one-piece metal plate that extends from the (slotted) peghead to the bridge, under a rosewood fingerboard. 10 string Charlie"s! I love it! I have a Grande console with 2 7-string CC's that have adjustable polepieces. So I figure that he must have been playing standard guitar when he was seen with the show, like you suggested. What I'll do is to take some pics of myself playing it and also some mpegs and mp3's and post them on my web site over the weekend.īTW Ron, My informed sources tell me that Bobby Nichols never played steel with Hawaii Calls. It has "The Sound" if you know what I mean. Yeah, the sound, how does it sound? I've heard they are really good tone wise. (Now if only I could play as well as him i'd be getting somewhere) I have a Gibson that has the metal plate all across the top of it and a "Charlie Christian" pick-up, I don't know the model number but I think it's from 1939.I thought that this guitar had the ultimate tone, I was wrong, th EH 150 Metalbody is far superior. If I was to pinpoint it's "timbre" I'd say VERY close to the sound of Iona's Carefree. You don't have to search for the sound, just taylor it to your particular taste. very long sustain and a tone that takes modifying with no problems. The guitar has the typical 30's tone to it. What do you think of the sound of your new "baby?" I have # 1319-38 stamped on the back of my EH-150. That's a BEAUTIFUL guitar and there's no Prizes for guessing what tuning this baby was set up for. I have a 10-string from, I believe, 1938 and it's F1969-1. GIBSON LAP STEEL GUITAR SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBERSHow about some of you who have the EH 150 wooden bodied one, giving you serial numbers to compare ? GIBSON LAP STEEL GUITAR SERIAL NUMBERS CRACKEDMichael Miller has could have cracked it he says quote:Ĭould it be they started with 150 and ran up to 248? Might make sense for a model 150. JackĬorrection- stamped on heel of neck as pictured. My #118 was stamped below where neck meets body on back. I mean it's only 67 years ago, I thought the average forumite was older than that. Is there no one on the forum that is familiar with what Gibson did in respect of the serial numbers. If we have a question re Fender, there's always Jody. But Gruhn's Guide is my only source of information. It would appear that the E-150s didn't fall into that scheme. except it doesn't it's all one piece.īasil - The standard Gibson numbering practice was to use the factory order number, preceded by a letter: 1935 was "A" and 1936 was "B". Stamped on the heel where the neck meets the body. ![]() I just realized that you're talking about that beautiful metal-body guitar of yours! (Gruhn refers to it as an E-150.) So I doubt there's a label on which to ink-stamp a number. Gruhn's Guide wasn't much help on this one, although it raises a couple of questions: Is there a letter prefix before the number? Is the number ink-stamped on the label? Pressed into the back of the body? But the notion of month numbers or week numbers doesn't seem to fit with the numbers we have. GIBSON LAP STEEL GUITAR SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBERIF you added the numbers of the serial number together. Just for fun the three guitars would be numbers 8, 9 and 10. How does this relate to the 98 that they made.ĭo the serial numbers relate to date of manufacture or invoice or what ? Now this is very strange, the one from e-bay is 170, Jack's was 118. The serial # of my EH 150 Metalbody is 207. ![]() Your profile | join | preferences | help | search Gibson serial numbers in 1935 - The Steel Guitar Forum INSTRUCTION ![]()
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