{"product_id":"2012-gibson-custom-shop-historic-lg-2-banner-acoustic-guitar-w-case-coa","title":"2012 Gibson Custom Shop Historic LG-2 Banner Acoustic Guitar w\/ Case \u0026 COA","description":"Up for sale, a 2012 Gibson Custom Shop Historic Banner LG-2 in excellent condition, complete with the original hardshell case and COA. Not to be confused with the more widely available current 1942 Banner reissues, this example from 2012 was from an extremely limited run intended for international markets, and even fewer of these guitars were made available to USA dealers.Featherweight at 3lbs 6oz, this LG-2 has a particularly immediate, lively and broad sound, benefitting from a decade of play to work-in the top and ensure a more relaxed, robust overarching response. Tonewoods include a solid X-braced spruce top, solid mahogany back and sides, and a one-piece mahogany neck capped with a rosewood fingerboard. This LG-2 offers an articulate sound with remarkable clarity and projection. Even the lightest strum yields a full, hyper-detailed response. The wound strings are defined, the midrange has a smooth, rich quality, and and the trebles offer both sparkle and punch. This LG-2 Banner has been professionally setup here at Mike \u0026amp; Mike's Guitar Bar with fresh 12-53 strings and easy-playing action.The one-piece mahogany neck has a slender C-shaped profile carve at the nut, with appreciable shoulder and heft further up the fretboard, measuring .795\" deep at the 1st fret and .965\" at the 9th. On the rosewood fretboard, the original slender frets have their full factory height and well-rounded crowns, showing just the faintest hint of wear beneath the plain strings on the crowns of frets 1-3. The guitar plays cleanly up the 24 3\/4\" scale with a straight neck and responsive, optimally adjusted truss rod. The bone nut measures 1 11\/16\" in width. The headstock face has a clean gold Gibson silkscreen and Banner logo, with the Custom Shop graphic on the back of the peghead and some minor cosmetic marks on the headstock perimeter. The original Kluson Deluxe single line strip tuners turn smoothly and hold pitch reliably.On the top, the rosewood bridge is flush with the spruce, fitted with a tall, carved and compensated bone saddle. The deep red transparent tortoise pickguard exhibits light pick scuffing across the strum path, extending above the soundhole. Cosmetic wear on the gloss nitro lacquer finish includes some small dings in the black of the Sunburst on the lower bout on top, faint buckle rash central to the waist on the back, and a few additional finish scratches and minor marks on the body as a whole. The gloss finish on the neck profile is nigh-flawless.The original black tolex Gibson hardshell case is included, along with the COA which outlines the limited nature of this LG-2 Banner model, and the Gibson-embossed envelope for the COA.","brand":"Gibson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43452699279616,"sku":"13162003","price":4299.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/4437\/4714\/products\/medium_f61a0ca3-aa86-4ddf-ad08-ad8338eabe6a.jpg?v=1751543497","url":"https:\/\/mmguitarbar.com\/products\/2012-gibson-custom-shop-historic-lg-2-banner-acoustic-guitar-w-case-coa","provider":"Mike \u0026 Mike's Guitar Bar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}