1936 Gibson Kalamazoo KG-11

*****VERY GOOD condition for an 84 year old guitar. Loud, full sound.*****

Before Gibson made Epiphone its budget brand, it had Kalamazoo. Named after Gibson’s home town in Michigan, Kalamazoo was the brainchild of Gibson president Guy Hart, who needed something to keep Gibson in the musical instrument business through the Great Depression. The Kalamazoo line was revived during the 60s for a series of electric guitars, basses and amplifiers that were a notch below the mid-priced Epiphone-branded products. The revival was short-lived, and lasted only until 1970.

Although there’s no label, figuring out the model number of this example wasn’t hard. Between 1933 and 1942, there were only a handful of Kalamazoo flat-top acoustics and the small, square-shouldered body marks this one down as a KG-11. Most ‘bluesologists’ agree Robert Johnson played and recorded with the larger KG-14.

• 14 3/4" wide
  
• 17 1/2" body
  
• 1 3/4" shorter then 14 fret L-O body style
  
• Solid spruce top
  
• Mahogany back and sides
  

• Three stress cracks from bridge area to lower bout. They are SURFACE CRACKS ONLY. 
  
• One stress crack on the top right side of body (see pics). It is solid and does not go through the wood.
• Scattered scratches and dings, but overall very nice, especially when compared to others I have seen.
• My luthier fixed a double diamond shape hole on lower right side of the guitar. Great fix, but he removed finish so that the fix would blend in. He retired before he re-finished. Some wood stain and lacquer  and it will look great. Cheap job for a luthier.
  
• Action is medium, to be expected for one of these older Gibson's. It DOES NOT need a neck reset.