1928 Gibson Nick Lucas Special SOLD
Here we have the most finest examples of a vintage Nick Lucas Special. The guitar still retains its original case and key along with what must be tag documentation from the original owner. $150 for guitar and case in 1929. The guitar is completely crack free along with a perfect neck angle and so ready for its next owner to enjoy trouble free. This is probably the finest sounding Gibson acoustic i have heard…and i have heard a few over the years.
From the Nick Lucas website:
1926 Gibson Nick Lucas guitar :
$125 list price, 13.5″ wide, 24.25″ scale, deep body (4 1/2″ deep or more), slightly arched top and back, mahogany back and sides, spruce top. The shape of the first generation Nick Lucas Special was the same rounded shape used on Gibson’s L-1 and L-3. This earliest version had an angled “The Gibson” silk-screened in silver paint on the headstock. The sound-hole purfling rings were alternating white, black, white wood strips. Fingerboard inlays were small varied pattern inlays which included a five-point star at the third fret. Rosewood bridge with pyramids at ends, slight belly on bridge with white pins, extra pin below bridge pins, triple bound top & back, triple bound rosewood fingerboard, 12 frets clear of the body, Grover 98 tuners, angled special round “Nick Lucas” label inside, sunburst finish.
Late 1928 Gibson Nick Lucas guitar:
By the end of 1928 the peg head “The Gibson” logo was inlaid in pearl. Also the pyramid bridge changed and the sound hole perfling changed to ivoroid rings of alternating white, black, white plastic. Fingerboard inlays changed to a large varied pattern with notched diamond at the 3rd fret.
You can see our guitar falls in the late 1928 specification
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