Serial number: 89115

Year shipped: 1932

FON: 357

Headstock: Horizontal ‘The Gibson’ logo

Neck/fingerboard: 20 fret fingerboard with a pointed end and dot inlays from the third fret – see Notes below

Body: Maple back and sides. Solid top braces

Hardware: Gold-plated metal parts including regular tailpiece and Waverly three-on-a-strip tuners with engraved base plate and pearl buttons, mounted so that the cog is positioned below the worm gear. Long bound pickguard 

Notes: The brass truss rod cover is not original to the guitar

UPDATE

Since the above photos were taken, L-5 serial number 87506 has been fitted with a new 20 fret fingerboard with a pointed end and dot inlays from the third fret. The fingerboard work was done by Dimitri Tenev

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Images courtesy of Tony Marcus