Gibson Guitars
Top tier onlyUSED Gibson 1952 Custom J-185 Acoustic Guitar - Vintage Sunburst, Sitka Spruce Top, Flame Maple Back
Listed at Music Street · Huntingdon, England
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Music Street’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Music Street’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Maple
- Fingerboard
- Rosewood
- Body shape
- J-185
- Scale length
- 24.75"
- Nut width
- 1.725"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
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.
Music Street
Music Street operates from a Huntingdon storefront in Cambridgeshire, about 70 miles north of London, as a family-run independent founded in 2014 by Tony Rawson — a longtime music-retail manager who came up under Jeff Pumfrett at Machinehead Hitchin. The shop's identity is its in-house luthier bench: every instrument, in-store or online, is set up before it leaves the building, and the floor staff (several ex-Machinehead, all working touring musicians whose credits include Sister Sledge, Tony Hadley, and James Bay) sell on advice rather than commission. The retail floor runs broad across PRS, Patrick James Eggle, Rock n Roll Relics, Fender, Gibson, Martin, and Duesenberg (Music Street is the UK Flagship Duesenberg dealer), with a focused boutique-acoustic shelf anchored by Lowden — F, S, O, and Wee series across multiple appointment tiers, plus rotating Collings, Huss & Dalton, and more.