Gibson LG-1 1965 Transitional 1 5/8" Nut w/ Case, Very Good

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The Gibson LG-1 is one of those small-body acoustics that serious players discover and then can't stop talking about. Rootsy, dry, punchy, and surprisingly loud for its size. In 1965 alone, 7,839 of these shipped from the factory, the all-time high for any Gibson flat-top in a single year. The folk and blues boom was in full swing and these guitars were everywhere. Most of them were played hard. Clean examples in excellent condition are genuinely harder to find than the numbers suggest.

This one came in looking good and sounding promising, but the original plastic bolt-on bridge — Gibson's cost-cutting measure of the mid-60s that nobody defends — was not going to cut it. I replaced it with a proper rosewood bridge and set it up correctly, and the guitar now plays exactly as it should.  Everything else is original and intact: spruce top, mahogany neck with a comfortable C profile, rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays, original frets, original tuners, original pickguard. 

At 4 lbs 1 oz this is a genuinely lightweight guitar — comfortable for long sessions or slouchy couch playing in a way that larger, heavier instruments simply aren't. The neck measures .82" at the first fret and thickens naturally to 1.36" at the tenth, which is a comfortable, medium C profile that suits both fingerpicking and strumming. Action is set at 3/32" on both the first and sixth strings at the twelfth fret.

This guitar lands in the middle at 1-5/8" — wider than the slim-neck versions that fingerpickers often find cramped, and a genuinely comfortable width for a broad range of playing styles. It's a sweet spot that the pure narrow-nut 1965-68 guitars don't offer, and players who know to look for it specifically seek these transitional examples out.

The original alligator-grain chipboard case is included — the correct period case for this guitar and a nice survivor in its own right.

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Specs:

• Color: Sunburst
• Weight: 4lbs 1oz
• Top: Spruce 
• Body: Mahogany
• Neck: Mahogany
• Neck Profile: C
• Fretboard: Rosewood
• Inlays: Dot
• Frets: Original
• Fret Count: 20
• Nut: Original
• Nut width: Transitional 1-5/8"
• Radius: 12"
• Scale: 24.75"
  
• Neck thickness at 1st Fret: .82"
• Neck thickness at 10th Fret: 1.36"
• Action 1st String at 12th Fret: 3/32"
• Action 6th String at 12th Fret: 3/32"
• Overall length: 39-1/4"
• Body length: 19"
• Lower bout: 14-5/16"
• Waist: 9-5/8"
• Upper bout: 11-1/8"
• Body depth/thickness: 4-1/2"
• String gauge: 12-53
• Pickguard: Original
• Bridge: Replaced / Repaired
• Tuners: Original
• Case: Original Chipboard Alligator Case
• Notes: