GIBSON GENERATION COLLECTION G-200 EC & G-WRITER EC

It’s always the way, isn’t it? You wait 120 years for Gibson to make an acoustic guitar with a shoulder-mounted soundhole and then four come along at once. Last time around, we explored two of these new models, the fully acoustic G-00 and G-45. Here, we’re looking at the upper end of this nascent range with the G-200 EC and G-Writer EC, both of which apply the minimalist Generation Collection design language to existing Gibson models.

While the callipygian silhouette of Gibson’s J-200 needs no introduction, the same cannot quite be said of the Songwriter model. This dreadnought outline – originally designed by Ren Ferguson – first emerged in the 1990s in the Gibson Custom Line series