Serial Number: EA 5231 Jack Shook
Year shipped: 1939
FON:
Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script logo
Neck/fingerboard: 20 fret fingerboard with pointed end and narrow block inlays from the first fret. Wide neck heel
Body: 17-inch body with maple back and sides, Natural finish and large bound f-holes
Hardware: Gold-plated metal parts including Varitone tailpiece
Notes: The pickguard is missing. This guitar belonged to Nashville session and radio guitarist Jack Shook
This guitar is one of 48 Natural finished Advanced L-5s shipped in 1939

Thanks to Cheryl Offutt and her husband Jeff Offutt for permission to feature her grandfather’s guitar
Images left and above courtesy of George Gruhn; image top left courtesy of Cheryl Offutt