Help identifying this gibson...

poopot

right then, a guitar has been dropped off to a pals for some tlc... gibson 12 string... we’re told pre 60’s... no serial and no model number anywhere...

fancy a game of “name that guitar”...

KKJale

Gibson B45-12. 

Edit: the book says no trapeze/upper belly bridge should be '62-'65. Probably the only way to narrow it down would be to discover a batch number stamped somewhere inside...

ICBM

It's also early 1960s and not pre-60s. The model was made from 1961 onwards, but I think the earliest had 'slope' shoulders which this one doesn't, and from 1965 onwards they changed to a trapeze tailpiece, so I would guess more like 1963-64.

poopot

Cheers chaps... allegedly used on the start of space odity and here comes the sun!!!!!

AliGorie

N.B. it has the classic Gibson - headstock / neck crack / break -

be aware.

ICBM

poopot said:

Cheers chaps... allegedly used on the start of space odity and here comes the sun!!!!!

That actual one?!

AliGorie said:

N.B. it has the classic Gibson - headstock / neck crack / break -

be aware.

Looks to have been reasonably well-repaired and not a complete clean-off in the first place, but yes be aware.

poopot

AliGorie said:

N.B. it has the classic Gibson - headstock / neck crack / break -

be aware.

Yep... not mine so don’t care

ICBM said:

poopot said:

Cheers chaps... allegedly used on the start of space odity and here comes the sun!!!!!

That actual one?!

Apparently so!... need to do a bit more digging but looks to be the case!