It is also one of the most subtle and complicated woodworking decorations on any ACOUSTIC GUITAR. A Rosette rosette is a beautiful, hand-crafted circle around a soundhole, and can be one of the most ornamental elements of any ACOUSTIC GUITAR.
Pickguard tortoise pickguard For J-200 Standard is GIBSON's Standard Super Jumbo shape, hand-engrave with J-200's traditional floral and vine design, surrounded by a cream-color border with yellow and orange dots. Over the years, it has also been called thistle because of group of flowering plants with sharp prickles, though GIBSON has preferred to call it Crown. Crown Peghead Logo GIBSON put the first Crown Peghead Logo on the ES-300 back in 1940, and it has grace headstocks of many legendary GIBSON Guitars ever since, including today's J-200 Standard. Special lubricant inside the gear box provides smooth and accurate tuning stability. Countersunk tension screw lets players regulate tuning tension to any degree. All moving parts are cut for exact meshing, eliminating the possibility of slippage. With a gear ratio OF 14: 1, Rotomatics deliver precision tuning in durable housing that provides maximum protection for gear and string post.
Gold Grover Rotomatic Tuners Grover's original Rotomatic Tuners are engineering marvel, with style and PERFORMANCE exactly suit the J-200 Standard. It is simply the world's most famous ACOUSTIC GUITAR, and certainly one OF most popular, as evidence 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 gives purveyors of the New American music scene OF 1930s reliable, well-build instrument, capable of projecting the sound OF GUITAR well beyond that of any other ACOUSTIC on the market-fact that still holds true today. Upon its introduction in the late 1930s, J-200 immediately filled the need for deeper, more balanced and powerful sound. Today-nearly 71 years later-legacy OF GIBSON's King OF Flat-tops LIVE on in GIBSON J-200 Standard ACOUSTIC-electric GUITAR. " 1964 Gibson J-200 Custom (SN 67437) headstock.jpg", by bptakoma, licensed under CC BY 2.0įrom its inaugural appearance in 1937, GIBSON's J-200 set Standard others have been trying to match ever since.