Hey, am I hallucinating or is Bob Dylan playing a Guild here???

[davismanLV]

As I was listening to this, I thought I detected a Guild bridge, and then a G-shield. You never really see the headstock well. What do you think?

 

[jedzep]

I see it now. F30 with the jumbo shape bod?

 

[adorshki]

Thanks to my 27" screen I can make out the headstock inlay. Nope, not a G-shield, something else. Also, the fretboard inlays are unlike anything else I've seen 'em use, especially considering it looks like an F30 sized guitar.

I see it now. F30 with the jumbo shape bod?

Nope, you're hallucinating too. You wouldn't happen to be getting your water from the city of Lost Wages, would you?

 

[jp]

That's a Gibson Nick Lucas Special. Not sure what year.

 

[jedzep]

That bridge did pull me off into the muck. Funny, just yesterday I was listening to Steve Earle talking about Dylan's Nick Lucas.

My water comes from a well, but I will be getting it tested. When I close my eyes I still see the M30 I missed out on.

 

[SFIV1967]

That 13 fret Gibson Nick Lucas Special is said to be most probably from 1933.
And yes, it has a Guild replacement bridge! That's even documented on a Gibson webpage! Also the top is said it was refinished from burst to natural and a Martin pickguard added.

Legendary Guitar: Bob Dylan’s Gibson Nick Lucas Acoustic

Before he went electric in 1965 — and drew jeers from legions of (arguably small-minded) fans in the process — Bob Dylan epitomized the hard-traveling folk troubadour, and he established this image largely on a vintage Gibson Nick Lucas model flat-top guitar. The young Dylan had played other...

es.gibson.com

GIBSON NICK LUCAS SPECIAL

Blog about the guitars played by Bob Dylan since the first album till now, guitars like Gibson, Fender, Martin , etc, electric and acoustic guitars

bobdylansgear.blogspot.com

"The
Gibson" on the headstock:

Ralf

 

[dreadnut]

You're hallucinating, that must have been some good stuff.

 

[davismanLV]

You're hallucinating, that must have been some good stuff.

Although there's a certain cachet to having some "good stuff" (I wish....) I'm afraid I'm going to dash your hopes and just admit to failing eyesight (I really need new glasses, badly) and unfamiliarity with Dylan's choice in guitars. Also, if I had Ralf's skill at computers and research, I'd never have posted. But it was fun anyway. I'm more than willing to admit defeat, @dreadnut.

But that bridge isn't a typical Gibson style, is it? That's what lead me astray. Well, that and my poor eyesight these days. Oh well.....

 

[cupric]

Hallucinating? View attachment 14895Blame it on this guy!

 

[Nuuska]

Ralf being mentioned - I wonder if he can find a picture of Dylan with THAT 12-string - built in Duluth - in mid seventies . . .

 

[SFIV1967]

But that bridge isn't a typical Gibson style, is it?

Read second line in post #6!

Ralf being mentioned - I wonder if he can find a picture of Dylan with THAT 12-string - built in Duluth - in mid seventies . . .

I think we tried in that thread but no, don't think there was a picture available.

Bob Dylan birthday guitar - handmade 12-string

Not a Guild - but a very rare 12-string - most likely only one 1977 while living in Bloomington MN over summer - I visited Duluth - and naturally wandered around to area of (positively) 4th street - there was a guitarmakers shop on side street - somewhere near Leif Erikson Park - there was...

letstalkguild.com

Ralf

 

[Lance Lawson]

Dylan's Nick Lucas was extesively modified by a guitar store in New York City in 1963/64. The guitar was origionally owned by the sister of well Known guitar repair/builder Paul Hoffstetter. It was strripped of it's sunburst finish and given that Guild bridge. The guitar was damaged on the 1966 world tour and likely never repaired. It's last known care taker is Dylan's son Jacob Dylan who apparantly never was public with the guitar. One guitar player who has seen the guitar and described it has having the strings 1inch above the sound board. In other words still un playable.

 

[adorshki]

Dylan's Nick Lucas was extesively modified by a guitar store in New York City in 1963/64. The guitar was origionally owned by the sister of well Known guitar repair/builder Paul Hoffstetter. It was strripped of it's sunburst finish and given that Guild bridge. The guitar was damaged on the 1966 world tour and likely never repaired. It's last known care taker is Dylan's son Jacob Dylan who apparantly never was public with the guitar. One guitar player who has seen the guitar and described it has having the strings 1inch above the sound board. In other words still un playable.

Welcome Lance! Wonderful anecdote. Just the kind of stuff we love around here.

 

[Cougar]

As I was listening to this.....

Didn't notice this is an older thread, but still, as I was listening to this I was just thinking, Dylan is such a gift to our generation. A hard rain's gonna fall -- wow.

 

[chazmo]

Dylan's Nick Lucas was extesively modified by a guitar store in New York City in 1963/64. The guitar was origionally owned by the sister of well Known guitar repair/builder Paul Hoffstetter. It was strripped of it's sunburst finish and given that Guild bridge. The guitar was damaged on the 1966 world tour and likely never repaired. It's last known care taker is Dylan's son Jacob Dylan who apparantly never was public with the guitar. One guitar player who has seen the guitar and described it has having the strings 1inch above the sound board. In other words still un playable.

@Lance Lawson , welcome aboard!!! Please continue to tell us what you know about the guitar and how you know it.

Thanks for joining us! Keep it coming!

 

[Walter Broes]

Ah, a Nick Lucas. I hope to own some kind of version or copy of one some day. The small-but-deep 13-fret long scale Nick Lucas spec is unique and makes for a special guitar.

 

[chazmo]

That 13 fret Gibson Nick Lucas Special is said to be most probably from 1933.
And yes, it has a Guild replacement bridge! That's even documented on a Gibson webpage! Also the top is said it was refinished from burst to natural and a Martin pickguard added.

Legendary Guitar: Bob Dylan’s Gibson Nick Lucas Acoustic

Before he went electric in 1965 — and drew jeers from legions of (arguably small-minded) fans in the process — Bob Dylan epitomized the hard-traveling folk troubadour, and he established this image largely on a vintage Gibson Nick Lucas model flat-top guitar. The young Dylan had played other...

es.gibson.com

GIBSON NICK LUCAS SPECIAL

Blog about the guitars played by Bob Dylan since the first album till now, guitars like Gibson, Fender, Martin , etc, electric and acoustic guitars

bobdylansgear.blogspot.com

"The
Gibson" on the headstock:

Ralf

That ain't no Givson! Great sleuthing, as usual, Ralf!

 

[SFIV1967]

The guitar was origionally owned by the sister of well Known guitar repair/builder Paul Hoffstetter.

Welcome top LTG!
That seems to be not correct however, the guitar belonged to Marc Silber's sister Julie according to Paul Hostetter himself:

Le modèle H - special series

Ralf