It also has a rosewood fingerboard and bridge, an engraved pickguard, and mother-of-pearl crown inlays. The SJ-200 Standard is available in sunburst and natural, featuring LR Baggs electronics, gold hardware, Grover tuners, figured maple back and sides and a three-piece laminate neck (maple/rosewood/maple). The SJ-200 Studio is the lowest model in the line, featuring walnut rather than maple back and sides, chrome hardware, a plain pickguard, natural finish and no fingerboard binding, but it retains the inlays and electronics of the SJ-200 Standard. Gibson currently makes many variations of the J-200. Early models made from rosewood are highly prized by collectors. Due to the weak post-depression economy and wartime austerity, demand for this high-end guitar was very limited and production quantities were small. Gibson changed the name to the J-200 in 1955. In 1947 the materials used for the guitar changed to maple back and sides. The SJ-200 was named for its super-large 16 7/8" flat top body, with a double-braced red spruce top, rosewood back and sides, and sunburst finish. It was made at the Gibson Factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Some play well but don’t sound so good, some don’t look good but play well but this one is very much a great acoustic, a really nice sounding guitar and I love it.Gibson entered into production of this model in 1937 as its top-of-the-line flat top guitar, initially called the Super Jumbo, changing the name in 1939 to the Super Jumbo 200. It all depends on the wood, the craftsmanship of the maker, the temperature when it was made, the moisture in the wood… there’s a thousand things that go into making an acoustic guitar sound good. One made on a Tuesday might not feel the same as one made on Wednesday. They can vary tremendously, each individual guitar. Gibson sponsored the event and let us keep the guitars we’d played on the roof which in my case was a fabulous Gibson J-200.Īcoustic guitars are very peculiar. “This guitar of mine comes originally from an event in April 2007 at the Empire State building in New York for Mike Peters’ Cancer Charity ‘Love, Hope & Strength’. Mike, Dave Wakling (The Beat), Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) and I did a hike up the 1,600 steps to the top of the Empire State Building and then played a little gig there. It is simply the world’s most famous acoustic guitar, and certainly one of most popular, as evidenced by the list of players that have made it their primary acoustic instrument, among them Ray Whitley, Emmylou Harris, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Gram Parsons, and Pete Townshend. It gave purveyors of the new American music scene of the 1930s a reliable, well-built instrument, capable of projecting the sound of the guitar well beyond that of any other acoustic on the market - a fact that still holds true today. Upon its introduction in the late 1930s, the J-200 immediately filled a need for a deeper, more balanced and powerful sound. Today years later the legacy of Gibson’s “King of the Flat-tops” lives on in the new J-200 Standard. From its inaugural appearance in 1937, Gibson’s J-200 set a standard others have been trying to match ever since.
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