#Gibson j 200 black series

Unable to resist the call of the jumbo we begin our playing session with the G-200. Window seat: the Player Ports allow you to peer into the guitars In use The ebony вЂ™boards and bridges of both guitars are well cut and the fretwork is uniformly smooth. The necks are made from utile вЂ“ an African mahogany often referred to as sipo вЂ“ carved to GibsonвЂ™s Advanced Response profile, which in real terms is a slim and slinky C shape.

As with the other models in the range, the back and sides are made from figured walnut, the soundboards are Sitka spruce and the bodies are a little slimmer than usual. Each has a Venetian cutaway, more elaborate bar inlays on its striped ebony fretboard, body binding and an LR Baggs Element Bronze pickup system. The G-Writer and G-200 take things up a notch in terms of both functionality and aesthetics. That said, we loved the sonic impact that the Player Port design had on the G-45 and G-00 so it will be fun to see how it works here.Д®arn your stripes: each guitar has a belly-down striped ebony bridge

Peaking through it reveals not just the X-bracing and two tone bars but also internal construction thatвЂ™s a little rough and ready. Gibson has since done extensive research culminating in the Player Port, an elliptical plastic-edged soundport in the shoulder of the guitars in this range.ДЄs with the other Generation Collection instruments we looked at, the Player Port also functions as a handy viewing port. Dating back to 1964, the вЂModern J-45вЂ™ never went into production but the design featured a large circular sound hole in the lower bout. The Generation Collection, made in GibsonвЂ™s dedicated acoustic facility in Bozeman, Montana, is inspired by a recently discovered blueprint from the Gibson archives.

#Gibson j 200 black series

This slinky dreadnought outline вЂ“ originally designed by Ren Ferguson вЂ“ first emerged in the 1990s in the Gibson Custom Line series before becoming the Songbird and finally the Songwriter. While the callipygian silhouette of GibsonвЂ™s J-200 needs no introduction whatsoever, the same is not necessarily true of the Songwriter model. READ MORE: The Genius OfвЂ¦ Parallel Lines by Blondie.Here, weвЂ™re looking at the upper end of this nascent range with the G-200 EC and G-Writer EC, both of which apply the minimalist Generation Collection design language to existing Gibson designs. Last time out we explored two of these new models, the fully acoustic G-00 and G-45. ItвЂ™s always the way, isnвЂ™t it? You wait 120 years for Gibson to make an acoustic guitar with a shoulder-mounted soundhole and suddenly four come along at once.