Kitty Wells's hybrid Gibson Jumbo

[GoldenStreet]

Interestingly, this would appear to be a one-off instrument by Gibson, effectively the classic, round shouldered J-45/Southern-style jumbo, but with the J-200 moustache bridge, pickguard, fingerboard markers, etc. Not too sure, though, how much better it sounds!



Bill

[JimN]

I wonder it has the J45's 24.75" scale, or the 25.5" of the J200?

The bridge looks as though it's positioned farther from the soundhole than it would be on a J45, so perhaps that's a full-scale J200 neck mounted with a 14th-fret junction, meaning that the bridge position has to be altered.