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c.1929 Gibson Nick Lucas w/two cases
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| Our Price: $8,500 | Serial # 85387 |
We can't find much info on what singer performed as The Ozark Rambler on station KMBC in Kansas City, but Leroy Montesanto recorded a few sides for Paramount under that name. Our guess is "Ozark Rambler" was probably used by more than one performer in the 1930s, but at least one of them chose this early Gibson Nick Lucas when serenading his listeners. He obviously did some vigorous picking, and the area of the top where a pickguard would have been on a later model has been smoothed and filled, then tinted to match the rest of the coloring on the top.
This is the second version of the Nick Lucas model, with the longer flat-tipped bridge instead of the funny little one with an extra pin, but it still has the earliest headstock, with "The Gibson" instead of just "Gibson," and no other inlay. Some folks say it has to be late 1928, not '29, but whatever, it's the early Lucas with the short scale length, so you can do things on this neck you'd never be able to reach on a regular guitar. Gibson still hadn't quite figured out how to brace flattop guitars, as opposed to their archtop models, and the top on this one needed serious help years ago and was rebuilt by Mario Martello around 1990. Nothing shows on the outside, but the top bracing was updated and looks more like what you'd find on a Gibson from a decade later.
The original tuners are long gone, but we fitted this guitar with Waverly reissues of the Grover 4-to-1 banjo-style tuners, and mounted old ivoroid buttons as well.
The original hardshell case as shown is included, but offers little real protection (there's a hole in back side of the neck of that case we forgot to show in a photo) so a tweed hardshell TKL case is also included.
| Top: | spruce |
| Back & Sides: | mahogany |
| Neck: | mahogany |
| Scale Length: | 24.25" |
| Frets Clear of Body: | 12 |
| Fretboard & Bridge: | Brazilian rosewood |
| Binding: | white celluloid |
| Tuners: | Waverly reissue |
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