Gibson Guitars
Top tier onlySJ-200 Custom - Ebony
Listed at Dave's Guitar Shop · La Crosse, WI
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Dave's Guitar Shop’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Dave's Guitar Shop’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Maple
- Fingerboard
- Rosewood
- Body shape
- SJ-200
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1.725"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- 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.
Dave's Guitar Shop
Dave's Guitar Shop opened in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1982, when Dave Rogers — a blues player who'd been buying and trading out of his home — rented a 400-square-foot former dental office. Four decades on it fills a roughly 21,000-square-foot building at 1227 S. 3rd St. with more than 2,500 guitars, making it one of the largest independently owned guitar stores in the Midwest; Rogers' public vintage collection (300-plus instruments, including a 1959 Les Paul) draws players from well beyond the region. The floor leans electric and vintage, but the acoustic room runs deep: Dave's carries Martin, Taylor, Gibson, Collings, Santa Cruz, Goodall, Larrivée, and McPherson, from working-musician models to custom-shop and high-end flat-tops, new and used. Roughly 70% of sales now ship by phone and web, with new arrivals photographed and posted daily. A Midwest institution, and a real destination for boutique acoustic shopping.