Freshly inspected and set up in-house by our esteemed Guitar Tech.  In Very Good Vintage Modified condition with normal wear for an instrument of this age, including scratches, nicks, and natural aging of parts and finish, with lots of finish checking.  The guitar was structurally restored by Stay Gold Guitars during the conversion process.  A center seam crack was glued and repaired.  Sides were reinforced.  A small heel repair was performed.  Small soundhole and fingerboard cracks were reglued.   

This guitar started its life as an LG-1 which is the ladder braced version of the more desirable X-braced LG-2.  In 2025 the guitar went through a "conversion" process performed by Stay Gold Guitars in Santa Fe, NM.  The conversion process is described in the Stay Gold section below.

The tone of this guitar was dramatically transformed by this conversion process, changing from a typical boxy ladder-braced tone to a much more harmonically detailed and open tone consistent with a vintage X-braced acoustic.  Playability is excellent given the extensive work performed.  See below for more details and specifications.

FROM STAYGOLD GUITARS:

Before we work our engineering magic on your acoustic guitar we have to completely disassemble it into it's component parts.  We carefully remove the neck and bridge, separate the back from the body, and remove all hardware and old braces. We then inspect and remedy any structural problems.

Through years of string tension, the neck can pull up, the top can warp, and the dovetail joint can slip: resulting in high playing action or impossible playability.  We remove the neck and clean out the dovetail, before setting a perfect neck angle and glueing back in place to ensure further more years of life.

A precise re-fret, built on-top of a level-planed fingerboard, greatly enhances playing feel, action, sustain, and intonation.  All frets are carefully leveled, crowned, sanded, and polished to a mirror finish as part of the process.

Making the perfect guitar nut, ensures optimum resonant transmission, acoustic coupling, and intonation. Each guitar that passes through has a hand carved nut.  Every bespoke nut is made to fit, ramps and guides are filed to be flat and true, and each guitar is expertly tuned for playability and function.

Our bracing pattern, inspired by pre-war models, increases headroom, richness and projection. Combined with vintage tone-woods, we create top shelf guitars at a fraction of the cost.  Each brace is meticulously hand carved, shaped and perfectly fit using the highest quality spruce stock we can source.

We consider the bridge to be the engine of the guitar. Converting energy supplied by your pick to project sound.  Every guitar that comes through our shop gets a bespoke hand carved bridge to match the style and footprint of the original.

Over more than 40 years, the tuning gears on vintage guitars tend to warp and bind together leaving them stiff and unusable.  We replace all tuning gears with high end models as standard. Ensuring precision tuning and years of further use.

SPECIFICATIONS:

New Gold Grover Rotomatic Tuners

New 1 11/16” Bone Nut

Original Mahogany Neck with 24 3/4” Scale Length

Neck Thickness .81" at First Fret and 1.03" at Eleventh Fret

Planed Original Rosewood Fingerboard with Dot Inlays and 16" Radius

20 Medium Jumbo Frets in Excellent Condition (Full Refret)

Added L.R. Bagg Internal Pickup with Soundhole Controls

New Hand-Carved Rosewood Bridge and Bone Saddle with New Maple Bridgeplate

Sunburst Spruce Top and Mahogany Back & Sides in Original Finish

Fully X-Braced with Hand-Carved Spruce Braces

Weight 4 lb 9 oz

Modern Gig Bag

Serial Number 52055 (Faded & Difficult to Read)

NOTE TO OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS:

We want you to be happy with your purchase and we try to represent the condition of all used and vintage guitars as accurately as possible in our listings.  Every used guitar shows some signs of play wear and vintage models even more so.  We call out all areas of damage or unusual wear, and describe the overall condition based upon what is "normal" for the age of the instrument.  Expect to see minor dings, finish checking, or other evidence of normal use and aging which may not be captured by photography or explicitly mentioned in the listing. 

We recognize that everyone has their own personal standard of what constitutes acceptable wear and tear.  If play wear is especially critical for you, please contact us for a complete in-hand description and to answer any questions you may have.  Your satisfaction is of paramount importance to us.