Description
Exc- condition ♦ All Solid Woods
1-3/4″ width at Nut ♦ 24-3/4″ scale length
2-3/8″ Pin Spacing ♦ Ladder Bracing
This fairly rare old Gibson is a product of 1930’s depression era guitar marketing from Gibson Guitar Co. This 1934 Carson Robison model was built cheaply from Mahogany and Spruce with ladder bracing. It was designed to accomplish 2 main goals: 1) Make a guitar that people could afford to buy during the depths of the Great Depression, and 2) Make it without referring to the name, “Gibson” anywhere… This was so they could sell them to more music stores than just their established Gibson dealers.
It has a body that people refer to as a squatty dreadnought shape. It is thinner, shorter and narrower than a dreadnought. Normal short scale length (24.75″), 1-3/4″ nut width and wide 2-3/8″ string spacing at the bridge.
Neck profile is a full “V”. Straight rectangular Gibson bridge. Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard. New frets. Original tuners are black button 3-on-a-plate.
It is easy for old ladder-braced instruments to have a “punky”, or “thumpy” attack and tone. It is a short-scale shrunken dreadnaught body with ladder bracing and solid inside linings, instead of true “kerfing”. It is just out of the shop with fresh neck reset and set-up. The sound is much better than you expect from ladder braces. Solid sound with good projection, good balance and full sounding bass notes.
