This is John’s take on a mid-1930s Gibson L-1 … the ostensible “Robert Johnson” guitar

• finish: a truly incredible sunburst by Matt Eady out of Georgia

• top: Carpathian spruce

• b&s: maple

• neck: Port Orford cedar

• fingerboard: ebony

• bridge: ebony

• bracing: X, “knife edge” Gibson-style common in the 1930s