TYPE
Acoustic Hollow Body Western guitar
FEATURES
Spruce top, mahogany back and sides, maple neck
Ebony fretboard
INFORMATION
The SJ-100 was released in 1939, a year after its predecessor J-100, and had a larger mahogany body. SJ stood for ‘Super Jumbo’. The pickguard had scalloped curves and the mustache-shaped bridge was height adjustable. The ebony fingerboard was inlaid with round mother-of-pearl position dots and the headstock had Kluson tuners.
Within two years, the model was slightly changed, the body became 1cm/0.4 inch narrower, the mustache-shaped bridge was replaced by an ordinary design and the headstock was made more in line with other Gibson models. However, this guitar was taken out of production in the 1940s. In the 1970s and the 1980s, Gibson tried to relaunch the Jumbo. The design was based on that of 1939.
