Post your gibson 335

[vcnyls]

 

[martin H]

2011 cherry sunburst

 

[AgentofOblivion]

Gorgeous guitars guys. My 50th Anniversary '60 in action:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz2wPDXrHOc]Recording with Rowsdower (Solos) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ronniesize]

 

[pmonk]

Picture makes it looks like an ebony. She is walnut!

 

[jonas335]

Here is my '59 Dot RI, a great guitar that really nails the vintage vibe, along with my 1961 Guild T100...

 

[christophervolume]

Here is my '59 Dot RI, a great guitar that really nails the vintage vibe, along with my 1961 Guild T100...

wow! very cool stuff there.

 

[bluesguitar1972]

Here is my '59 Dot RI, a great guitar that really nails the vintage vibe, along with my 1961 Guild T100...

Nice - digging that Guild.

 

[boatpaddle]

If any of you are willing to donate one to me..

don't be shy

 

[Kezia]

Technically an Epiphone Dot, but I love it to death

 

[guitarfish]

Playing out last night.

 

[Kezia]

I was playing an outdoor gig at 7 in the morning... had to get there to set up at 5. By the time I got onstage it was so cold I couldn't feel my fingers. It's hard to play when you can't even feel what you're doing haha

 

[Louie]

My Lucille and four old Marshall heads:

 

[Reverb]

Gibson ES-335TDC w/Bigsby

Left - 1964 ES-335TDC Kalamazoo
Pickups - P.A.F. and Patent Number pickups
All original, excellent condition

right - 2004 ES-335TDC Nashville
Pickups (and Covers) - 1962 Gibson Patent Number pickups (Vintage Nickel Gibson P.A.F. cover)
Tailpiece - 1963 Bigsby B-7 (1963 Gibson Custom Made Plaque)
Caps - Vintage Sprague Bumblebee 0.022μF 400V

 

[Quill]

no one more fanatical than a convert...

... never knew how a single guitar can go from explosive to a mournful whisper ...

i've read ES-335's were good and a species all its own, but this is ridiculous

Beautifully said, X. I congratulate you on your conversion! <edit>ah - eight months ago - still a believer?</edit>Or should I just imply, naughtily, thusly:

I have collected a few nice guitars now, so good each of them, I do not know what I would do, should I need to start letting them go - what would be the first one? It would be akin to asking, which finger should I cut off first ...

But I know which would be the last to go.

I just put the bigsby on it - by the way, could have used some help from the 335 w/Bigsby players over in my request-for-help thread, but that's fine, I managed, don't worry about me. Everything but the finish and the wood has been changed many times - it's an '80 that I got new in '81 or '82 I think - by '83 it had a Duncan JB in the bridge - by '85 a more versatile but waaaay less fun set of Duncan Customs and a stop tailpiece - it's on its third and hopefully last and magnificently best refret - and way, way better pickups in it now, wish we could have got pickups then like we can get pickups now - this and my old Twin were all I was lucky to have for probably let's-just-say-about-twenty years of playing, and all but a very few, a small, sad handful, of the live performances I've done have been on this guitar.

The poor old thing has been neglected, of late, but now that the Bigsby is on it, and the flatwounds are off it - I know, I know - and onto a proper full-bodied archtop this old soldier is going to see a new beginning. OH yeah.

As you can see, it once had the coil switch, falling into those dark years, as it did. It does have the three-piece maple neck with volute, which - not to start an argument, or anything - for me does give the 335s from those years a bit of an edge over all others, depending of course on what we are all looking for and want, out of our instruments. If you prefer the one-piece mahogany neck, that's cool, I understand, I have guitars with that kind of neck, too.

If I was silly about my finances, I would order a nice set of aged black pickup rings and black reflectors right now ... please, let's not be silly about our finances. Oh, but it's hard, not being silly.

 

[devnulljp]

66 ES335

 

[RufusTelestrat]

NIce. Very nice.

 

[koufax80]

Still have the cover on the pick guard. Looked in the paperwork last night and discovered it was checked and signed off on on 11/11/11...

 

[guitarfish]

Still have the cover on the pick guard. Looked in the paperwork last night and discovered it was checked and signed off on on 11/11/11...

Cool! That guitar definitely goes to 11 !

 

[Reverb]

1964 ES-335TDC w/Bigsby
P.A.F. and Patent Number pickups, All original