![]() ![]() ![]() It is also outfitted with standard period strip tuners with cool translucent plastic buttons. The large and strikingly unusual peghead design has a very deco look with diagonal lines stenciled over Celluloid showcasing the "Washburn" logo. The 14-fret mahogany neck has the typical 1930s Gibson "V" profile, with a bound rosewood fingerboard and pearl dot inlay. ![]() ![]() The natural-finish top is bound in white celluloid, with a bound sound hole edge and small rectangular rosewood bridge. This Gibson-made 5241 "Classic" Model has a spruce top with ladder bracing over mahogany back and sides. For a short time in the late 1930s Gibson picked up some of this contract work, and thus some very nice Washburns were born in Kalamazoo between 19. Tonk still used it on their better fretted products but had them built by different suppliers, primarily Regal. The Washburn brand had been used on Lyon & Healy's premium instruments from the 1880s through 1928 after that it passed to Tonk Bros, another Chicago jobber. This very interesting pre-war 16" Jumbo guitar has two famous names behind it "Washburn" which is on the headstock, and Gibson who actually built the instrument. Washburn Model 5241 Classic Model Flat Top Acoustic Guitar, made by Gibson (1939), made in Kalamazoo, Michigan, natural lacquer finish, mahogany back, sides and neck,spruce top, rosewood fingerboard, chipboard case. ![]()
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