1948 Gibson L-5P Premiere

[DougB]

Emerald City Guitars in Seattle:

1948 Gibson L-5P Premiere
– Emerald City Guitars

[BreckerFan]

Wow what a beautiful instrument! Natural finish Gibson archtops are pretty stunning. $25k hurts, but it's nice to look at haha.

[customxke]

That’s a beauty, but that price is pre-war premier money.

[Ol' Fret]

All fine with the instrument, but I've never bought that generally accepted though banal and ineradicable statement in the ECG newsletter:

<< A pickup attached to an active and dynamic guitar top is literally the recipe for feedback. Accordingly, large manufacturers and luthiers alike began increasing the thickness of their tops in an attempt to tame the squeal. It was moderately successful but effectively destroyed any chance of producing an acoustically superior instrument. >>

The same folks do never define what they understand by a thicker or a thinner top, they don't put a figure on it because unarguably "thinner" must be finer.
Will they ever realize that it's more about the function of stiffness, mass, gradation, arching curves, height and the recurve (if they make an effort to build one)?
I'd recommend buying a banjo.

[Hammertone]

I like the back. Reminds me of my Gibsellone Award!

[Woody Sound]

Rosewood fb!

[Archie]

All fine with the instrument, but I've never bought that generally accepted though banal and ineradicable statement in the ECG newsletter:

<< A pickup attached to an active and dynamic guitar top is literally the recipe for feedback. Accordingly, large manufacturers and luthiers alike began increasing the thickness of their tops in an attempt to tame the squeal. It was moderately successful but effectively destroyed any chance of producing an acoustically superior instrument. >>

The same folks do never define what they understand by a thicker or a thinner top, they don't put a figure on it because unarguably "thinner" must be finer.
Will they ever realize that it's more about the function of stiffness, mass, gradation, arching curves, height and the recurve (if they make an effort to build one)?
I'd recommend buying a banjo.