In the current issue of Vintage Guitar mag in the Q&A section with George Gruhn someone asks about the fingerboard inlays on a '34 L12 guitar. They are intricate scroll and flower style inlays in a picture frame or a rectangle of straight MOP pieces.
George says these were leftovers originally for style 5 Mastertone banjo's. Then says the inlay was done at Aumann Brothers of Grand Rapids.
Moving back in history from this I was wondering about the earliest inlay work at the company. I was under the impression that the inlays were imported from Germany until WW1 when imports were cut off and that was when the quality of "The Gibson" script went downhill like it is on the Loars as compared to sat an early teens oval.
Anyone who knows more of the facts, I'd love to hear them.
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