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Company: Gibson
Model#: SJ-100 Extra Centennial Limited Edition
Year: 1994
Description: I just love this guitar.   It's the one I take everywhere with me. I purchased this guitar at the Philly Vintage Guitar Show in 2006 and I just can't put it down...actually that's not true...I try to rotate instruments so that they all get play-time. When my wife and I attended the Philly show I spotted this almost immediately at a vendor's table (Nothing New Music, New Jersey) and tried not to look too interested.  But after a walk through of the place we came back around and I played it.  I actually had no intention of buying another guitar at the show, especially since I had just bought my Gibson J160E, but there it was. First of all, what drew me to it was that it was just like a J200, one of my favorites, but without that gaudy engraved pickguard! I also loved the un-inlayed "mustache" style bridge and pearl topped mahogany bridge pins . It also has Gibson/Kluson plastic topped tuning keys, obviously my favorite, if you look at my own creations!  Now the most important part of all...the sound. I asked the vendor at the Guitar Show if I could play it, and the sound was great, it had  had ten years to mellow in, and it was loud, even in the crowded show room. And speaking of age, it is a Centennial model, made in 1994, the 100th birthday of the Gibson Company (note the picture of the sticker inside the guitar)!  It fit me just right since my main guitars up to this point had been my jumbo body Guilds (6 and 12). Other than one nick in the binding on the rear lower bout of the body, it was mint.  Even though it came with a passive Fishman under-saddle pickup installed from the factory, I have since had this guitar refitted with a new Fishman under-saddle pickup with preamp and volume/tone/voicing control just inside the soundhole on the bass side.  It now sounds as good amplified as it does acoustic.  It came with the original brown Gibson hardshell case.    

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