New Gibson Midtown

littlethoughts

It kind of reminds me of an alternative stringed instrument like a parlour acoustic or one of those cuatro things.

jimmyd

ICBM said:

rpr said:

I kinda like like it-tho something about the same dont look right-maybe the angle the pics were taken at ?

Wrong neck joint position - they've put it at the 16th fret like the ES135, and single-cut semis need it at the 14th. This makes all the hardware too far forward on the body, in particular the gap between the tailpiece and the bridge is too big.

And it looks like it has a flat top, like the 335 ones did - but because you're expecting it to be arched, it actually looks like it's dished instead.

Horrible.

Totally agree!  Really didn't think I'd notice, then clicked on the link and it just looks completely like everythings been shunted forward on the guitar.

I thought the old style midtowns looked really good value at £1k; these new ones not so much.

Handsome_Chris

ICBM said:

Handsome_Chris said:

Does it play like butter?

Don't know, but it looks like it melted in the middle.

And so did I when I first saw it.

EricTheWeary

Looks better in the horizontal full length picture than the vertical body only one where the body looks weird.
If it was an Epiphone pawn shop special for £500 maybe we would be praising Gibson for doing something brave?

rockmonster

I had an original midtown and for me it really shouldn't have worked at all. It was the orrible natural colour it had a flat top it was neck heavy and it had burst buckers in it and a pretend wooden fretboard! Everything I don't like in a guitar. Trouble was it played great and sounded even better! Still looked like an old man's guitar to me though!

badlydrawnbanjo

rockmonster;47417" said:

I had an original midtown and for me it really shouldn't have worked at all. It was the orrible natural colour it had a flat top it was neck heavy and it had burst buckers in it and a pretend wooden fretboard! Everything I don't like in a guitar. Trouble was it played great and sounded even better! Still looked like an old man's guitar to me though!

That one started its life with me. Always wished I'd bought the burst instead.