gringopig's guitars
2025 Atkin LG47
Atkin guitars are known for making loving recreations of classic Martin and Gibson acoustics and their very own quirky electrics and this one is a recreation of a post WW2 Gibson LG-2.
I missed out on buying one in an auction recently and this is more than compensation. A unique grey colour. It shouldn't work but it does!
What a great looking guitar!
It is painted all over in that unique prison grey and that's why I think it's called 'Slade' grey. It was the fictional prison featured in the TV series 'Porridge' and is a wee joke I suspect by Alistair Atkin.
It shares the same body style of the LG-2 and is also X-braced. The slightly smaller body goes with the 24.9" scale length and has all the bass of a larger guitar. Very surprising volume and the guitar is so resonant holding it. It is very lightly braced and the top is wonderfully resonant.
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I played a Gibson Murphy light aged J-45 recently and it really wasn't good. Dull and monotonic, it put me right off although a non Murphy Lab one was much better. However, Atkin make the J43 model as a tribute to this slope shouldered classic and, having 2 Martins, I was keen to have this other classic acoustic shape.
I played a few Atkins and liked them a lot but I was intending to try to bid on an original 1946 Gibson LG-2 in an auction held by Gardiner Houlgate.
Very nice condition indeed!
I set a mental maximum figure and waited with bated breath. Of course, on the day, someone went right past my bid. I bid again manually but stopped. I was being sucked in and with the auction fess, it was going to be very expensive. Maybe market value though but I left it.
Very disheartening indeed but the very next day, three guitars popped up on Instagram. All grey and all from Atkin: a J43, a LG36 and this, an LG47. So nice!
The latter 2 were going to GuitarGuitar, so I got in touch and even before it hit the website, I was on it and had it sent to Edinburgh. It sounded amazing and I took it home.
Thanks to GuitarGuitar Edinburgh and especially Colin there who loves Atkins and has quite a number of their electric models!
Check out my demo below:
