Gibson Guitars
Top tier onlyCustom Shop 1942 Banner J-45 Murphy Lab Light Aged Vintage Sunburst (019)
Listed at Willcutt Guitars · Lexington, KY
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Willcutt Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Willcutt Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Rosewood
- Body shape
- J-45
- Scale length
- 24.75"
- Nut width
- 1.725"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Gibson Guitars
Founded in 1894, Gibson built the flat-tops that run through a century of popular music — the J-45, the Hummingbird — and still makes its acoustics by hand in Bozeman, Montana. The Atlas carries only its Custom end: the Historic reissues and Murphy Lab–aged recreations of those vintage models, not standard Original- or Modern-Collection production.
Willcutt Guitars
Willcutt Guitars has run out of Lexington, Kentucky's Beaumont Center since the mid-1990s, operating as one of the larger online guitar dealers in the country. The catalog runs wide across Fender, Gibson, PRS, Martin, and Taylor, with substantial custom-shop content from each — but the boutique-acoustic shelf sits at the heart of the shop, anchored by an unusually deep Collings inventory that includes much of the current production lineup plus a steady rotation of pre-owned and signature models. Santa Cruz, Bourgeois, and Larrivée round out the acoustic floor, with periodic Preston Thompson, McPherson, Goodall, Lowden, and Pre-War listings. For Collings shoppers in particular, Willcutt is one of the deepest single-dealer catalogs in the US.