I'm cleaning out a long closed Western Ma. luthier shops inventory and will be selling a lifetime collection of mostly vintage musical instruments and parts. Today I have a set of 1957 Gibson LGO top braces. LGOs were Gibson guitar companies' student model guitars, and were ladder braced. Back in the day it was common to rebrace them with X bracing . Perhaps that's where these came from. Anyway they were carefully removed, and retain their arch , Even the ends are clean . You can see in ...
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