Don't have $30,000 in your jeans for a 1934 Gibson Jumbo? Save your money, this is better. This fine instrument is about as good as sloped D's get with a rich, loud, dark, hollow and sweet voice that can only be compared to the original 1934 and 1935 Gibson Jumbos with 70 years of playing on them.
The first Kopp guitar I tried was a jumbo 12 fret 12-string cutaway that Leo Kottke brought in for Marty Reynolds (our in-house Luthier, free lance spiritual advisor and all around character) to put a pickup in. It was loud with a thunderous bass and just a whole lot of musical character that you didn't have to work very hard to get out of it.
John Walker (Walker Guitars) told me that Kevin Kopp was one of the stars in Gibson's acoustic custom shop when he was there and that we should give him a call, but Leo's Kopp guitars had already convinced me.
Phil Heywood, a Winfield National Fingerstyle Champion and one of our teachers, was playing the first one we had and we had to threaten to hit him in the head to get him to put it down and go give a lesson. He and Leo are long time friends and he was also blown away by Leo's two Kopp guitars. I just sat across from a guy playing his 1934 Gibson Jumbo and this instrument has old Gibson in it like nothing either of us have ever heard.
This awesome instrument has a few unusual construction features like a ribbon lining instead of slotted kerfing for a stiffer rim assembly, hide glue for the braces and brace end mortices perfectly fit into the ribbon lining.
Features:
- Mahogany back and sides
- Sitka spruce top
- Ebony fretboard
- Brazilian rosewood bridge
- Hand applied alcohol stain burst
- Very thin (.003") nitrocellulous lacquer finish
- Nickel Waverly tuners
- Bone bridge pins, nut and saddle
- 24 3/4" scale length
- 1 3/4" nut width
For more information, call us toll free at 1-866-331-8893 or email sales@thepodium.com.
| Model: |
K-35 |
| Manufacturer: |
Kopp |
