I postyed a you tube link to some tunes on the recording sharing forum but I thought you collings CJ owners might enjoy hearing this gibson OJ reissue. I am a slope dread lover and this short scale adi/hog gibson is the best I have owned so far...and I have owned a bunch.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jkds74UHiqI

Great song, well played, very nice guitar. OJ? I thought he drove a white Bronco. Sorry.

Very solid performance all 'round, Mark. Thanks!

B

aaahhhhh, you so fonny...that would be original jumbo..and, he really did do it I think

Great model, just a little thicker than a J-45 at the treble bout. I had one with adi top. I sold it to fund my CJ varnish ss.

I thought the advanced jumbo was the original jumbo, but I am not George Gruhn. Most importantly, the guitar sounds great and that song is very moving and extremely well performed. And, yeah, he probably did it, but there are 30K murders in this country every year and we usually only hear about the ones with cute white victims. There is a huge hole in the bottom of the boat, brother, and I'm bailing as fast as I can. tom

Very well done, Mark. On the subject of Gibsons versus CJs, I recently found a '50s J-50 that is good enough to have sent my CJ-MhGSB packing. Admittedly the CJ was primarily a placeholder until the "right" older J-50 came along, but it was King of the proverbial Hill for almost a year.

When you find a really good old Gibson, there is nothing better for that type of sound. And there are a few new ones that fit the bill as well. You just have to play a bunch to find one.

Again, great performance. And great sound.

Slightly off topic, but my first "real" guitar, purchased with virtually all my earnings from working at Old Faithful Inn for the summer of '65, was a new '64 J50 (not with that tool of the devil "adjustable tone sucking bridge", and it was very good. I think. It was 43 years ago. So, Miguel, are you fencing the Cj? Should we talk? You know my email address. tom

Already fenced, Thomas. A buddy of mine from Houston played it once and was sold. It's the best large-bodied mahogany Collings I've ever played but again ... it was primarily a placeholder until I weeded through enough vintage J-50s to find a great one.

Which I did. And I'm pleased to report that I didn't have to take Acoustic Dave's away from him either.

Warm, woody, thump-you-in-the-chest bass, not a bit bright ... dead perfect. It's going into the hospital in a week or so for a bridge job (adjustable-to-fixed) but that's the only work it needs. And it doesn't really NEED that. I just prefer the fixed saddle.

Man, that looks just like my old J50, except for the bridge. A good compensated bone saddle can't help but make a great guitar even better. Now, hone those Everly Bros. chops, bucko. And early James Taylor, and Dylan, and Phil Ochs. And the Beatles. Congrats. At least you have the sense to thin the herd when a new stallion arrives. tom

Very nice lookin' axe professor.
Tom

The Original Jumbo design predates the AJ design. There are differences between the two:

The OJ has non bound neck with a 24 3/4 scale while the AJ has a long scale.

The OJ has mahogany B & S, Adv jumbo R/W

The body of the OJ is the same depth at the front of the body as at the back.

There are other differences but these are the key differences.

Mike