Gibson / ES-335 / 1963 / Cherry Red / Guitar
Amazing cool and sweet sounding ´63 ES-335. The guitar not 100% original, but almost. It has had a bigsby in some point late sixties, but is now in original condition. Bigsby fits straight to this stoptail holes, so there´s only few tiny holes beside strapbutton, which tells bigsby has been installed. The nut is a new bone nut. (if vintage guitar has been played, the nut just needs to change about every ten years, to keep good playability and tuning). Neck is perfect. Very good playability and straight. It is well balanced too. In my opinion this neck is not a slim taper but not chunky as well. I think it´s close like in 59-60 les pauls. I believe this has a pro refret, but it has been done so carefully there are no visible marks to show the refret work. In some point the tuners has been off so you can see a ring marks around the ferrals but the original tuners were put back on which are Kluson Deluxe tuners with original ferrals. The tuners are straight, no bentshafts and are still pretty tight. The holes were NOT enlarged. The electronics are all original. Original NON T TOP Black PAT Sticker pickups with original nickel covers, original M-69 mounting rings. They sound amazing, basically these are PAF's that had Pat # stickers placed on them. The hardware is original nickel hardwear. The bridge is a nickel ABR-1 wired bridge. The saddle have not been recut or have any cuts or nicks, The nickel is NOT flaking or bubbling. Headstock: No breaks or repairs, The neck joint is original, no cracks or repairs. Body: no cracks or breaks. The binding is in very good condition, yellowing but no separation anywhere and no repairs. The case is the original yellow lined case.