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This just posted on Reverb today. It’s listed as brand new and I believe the serial number dates it 2024. The last pic is a spec sheet stating the fretboard is ebony but the photos look like rosewood to me. Also, no pictures of the COA. Kinda suspicious for a guitar in that price range.
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05-03-2024 04:59 PM
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House of Guitars has had a few new Gibson archtops in the last few months. It's probably for real.
They have a new L5CES as well.
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How close they are is an interesting question. I'll grab a few measurements from one of the three CES-style Campellones (w/P-90s, below) and a 2016 CES-style Heritage (Florentine, below) in the near future and post some results. My guess is that the Campellone will be less tank-like compared to the Gibson L-5CES, and that the Heritage will be similarly tank-like compared to the Gibson. But one never knows.
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The drool from looking at those pictures just shorted out my key-board. Wow, what fantastic instruments!
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It was not made in 2022. I actually had that guitar at my home in 2008 and took some photos of it (see below). It was for sale at my brother’s store at the time (Murch Music in Cambridge ON). Fortunately, I am able to zoom in on one of the photos and read the serial number, which confirms it is the same guitar.
Keith
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That is really great Keith. It’s amazing you remembered that. You guys had some real beauties come through that store. I remember talking to your brother a while back about a beautiful Heritage JS that had been in your store but long since sold.
I wish that, A: that guitar was more reasonably priced and
B: it was for sale in the fall of this year..
C: the volume knob wasn’t so “ in the way” on the pickguard.
Because I think my final guitar will be an L4. And that guitar would definitely warrant consideration.
JD
Crimson/Hutchins Gibson l5
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