“Light lacquer checking, light dings, pick trails, and rounded fretboard edges, with all five encapsulating the tone, look, and played-in feel of a vintage original”: Gibson expands acoustic Murphy Lab collection with five Light Aged classics

The new Gibson Murphy Lab Light Aged Acoustics released on 9 September 2025, all lined up in a wood-panneled show room with round windows and a rural landscape outside.

Gibson has been raiding the archive for inspiration and emerged with a handful of meticulous Murphy Lab reissues of classic acoustic guitars of yesteryear.

Light Aged in at the Bozeman, Montana acoustic Custom Shop, these all bear the hallmarks of the Murphy Lab M.O., offering a box-fresh, just-made version of a vintage instrument with a hefty but not vintage price tag for the collector’s market, and it’s a collection that takes us all the way back to when Herbert Hoover was in the White House with the 1929 Nick Lucas Special Reissue.