Remember these?

[Bojan]

Would someone kindly identify the make and model of this guitar -- for those of us less knowledgable . . .

[JimN]

Hi, Stuart - it was the 1962 reference, now amended to 1972, which amused me!

JN

[JimN]

Would someone kindly identify the make and model of this guitar -- for those of us less knowledgable . . .

Hi, Bojan,

Gibson J-45!

Examples from the period were finished in that cherry sunburst. I have the natural-finish version, the J-50.

JN

[StuartD]

Hi, Stuart - it was the 1962 reference, now amended to 1972, which amused me!

JN

Sorry!!!

[JimN]

Hi, Stuart - it was the 1962 reference, now amended to 1972, which amused me!
JN

Sorry!!!

No problem, Stuart.

I thought you were doing a variant on Bruce's stage joke...

[StuartD]

Hi, Stuart - it was the 1962 reference, now amended to 1972, which amused me!
JN

Sorry!!!

No problem, Stuart.

I thought you were doing a variant on Bruce's stage joke...

Yeah!! 1862!!

[AlanMcKillop]

Is old age setting in or is JimN testing us? I thought that The Shads had Gibson B-25's & a B45. I know there are similarities to the J-45, but as I've been following this thread, I've had a niggling doubt in the back of my mind. So what were the models, J-45's or B-25's?

[JimN]

J45s.

The B-25 is a much smaller instrument and, as it happens, was not imported to the UK by Selmer at the time. Confusion may have crept in because the 12-string version (not the same shape but otherwise similar) was the B-45.

JN

[StuartD]

They will have been the ones used in Finders Keepers in the Oh Seniorita song

Stuart

[JimN]

Gibson J-45 (Hank and Bruce had one each, which were used circa 1965-1969):



Gibson B-45 12-string (there seems to have been one communal Shadows acoustic 12, as used on My Grandfather's Clock, Chelsea Boot, With A Hmm Hmm On My Knee, etc):



Gibson B-25 6-string and 12-string (not a Shads guitar - superficially similar to J-45 but smaller and a different shape):



JN