Before Gibson made Epiphone its budget brand, it had Kalamazoo, named after Gibson’s home town to get through the great depression era. In this periord, there were only a handful of Kalamazoo flat-top acoustics and the small, square-shouldered body marks this one down as a KG-11 (it is believed that Robert Johnson played and recorded with the larger KG-14). Sharply-carved headstock corners parallel to the nut, pronounced headstock thickness taper with the classic three-on-a-plate tuners, fire stripe pickguard on a darkly shaded spruce top with mahogany back and sides. No truss rod. Many dings and dents and some pro repairs including a great neck reset, but this beautiful pre-war baby delivers dry, dusty blues tones to die for!
