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Post by Auf Kiltre on Mar 4, 2020 16:34:46 GMT -5
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Post by Leftee on Mar 4, 2020 16:40:15 GMT -5
I think all guitarists in Texas have to have one of those.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Mar 4, 2020 16:43:00 GMT -5
With a "Don't mess with Texas" sticker on it.
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Post by Leftee on Mar 4, 2020 16:45:03 GMT -5
That goes on your forehead.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Mar 4, 2020 17:00:14 GMT -5
That's a good-lookin' 335. Nice to see they are finally putting the proper-color knobs on the tuners. The snot-green buttons are horrible; none from the 50's look like that anyway. What the heck were they thinking? Like this:  |
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Mar 4, 2020 17:19:25 GMT -5
Yeah, that's what's on my Epi 335 Pro.
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Post by Leftee on Mar 4, 2020 17:25:03 GMT -5
You get the snotty green ones aftermarket, too. Maybe not quite as snotty as the linked image.
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Post by Firebird-V on Mar 4, 2020 17:25:26 GMT -5
I have a 2003 335 Dot in red
Top and back are both one piece of Flame Maple
It is in my top 3 gigging guitars
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Post by budg on Mar 4, 2020 17:38:14 GMT -5
Dang that looks mighty tasty. Would go nicely with my natural figured 335 with block inlays. The “rounded C” if it’s the same thing on my blonde 335 isn’t favorite a Gibson neck to date. Not a bad price either.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Mar 4, 2020 17:39:37 GMT -5
Back around 1979 I bought a 67 ES-335 for $400. I foolishly got rid of it around 86 and have been chasing the vibe with an ES-333, then later the Epi. The problem has been the necks on those 2. The 333 had squared shoulders like a 2x4. The Epi is insanely thin. "Rounded C" sounds nice.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Mar 4, 2020 17:41:02 GMT -5
Dang that looks mighty tasty. Would go nicely with my natural figured 335 with block inlays. The “rounded C” if it’s the same thing on my blonde 335 isn’t favorite a Gibson neck to date. Not a bad price either. Do tell. How would you describe the profile? |
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Post by budg on Mar 4, 2020 18:12:20 GMT -5
Dang that looks mighty tasty. Would go nicely with my natural figured 335 with block inlays. The “rounded C” if it’s the same thing on my blonde 335 isn’t favorite a Gibson neck to date. Not a bad price either. Do tell. How would you describe the profile? To me it is beefier than a slim taper with more shoulder. Beefy, but not ball bat beefy. I have sausage fingers and find it very comfortable. |
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Post by LTB on Mar 4, 2020 20:54:49 GMT -5
doublepost, please delete |
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Post by LTB on Mar 4, 2020 21:02:42 GMT -5
That's a good-lookin' 335. Nice to see they are finally putting the proper-color knobs on the tuners. The snot-green buttons are horrible; none from the 50's look like that anyway. What the heck were they thinking? Like this: Those tuners have a serious sinus infection!  |
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Post by HenryJ on Mar 5, 2020 7:10:45 GMT -5
What a beautiful guitar! Gotta be in red, with the white or cream binding, just like that one.
Reminds me of when I was in high school. The area had an annual art and folk festival. The jazz ensemble from a nearby university played, and the guitarist had a red ES-335 with the white or cream binding (or a guitar that looked like it), and I thought that was a very cool guitar.
I never have had one.
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Post by SoK66 on Mar 5, 2020 8:15:31 GMT -5
These are great guitars generally. I scored a '59 reissue back in '09 that's been my #1 or #2 ever since. For an expensive guitar it needed an unacceptable amount of work to put into proper playing status. The "PLEK" nonsense was done to a fingerboard whose radius was 9 1/2" at the nut to about a 12" radius at the 22nd fret. The machine just leveled the frets at 12". Fortunately I have a local ace luthier who was able to get the frets right with a lot of hand craftsmanship. It needed a new nut and the bridge saddles weren't radiused to match the board. IOW, a mess setup wise. I've seen $300 offshore-built guitars with a better setup from the factory.
Gib-O can be pretty confusing with their ES335 model designations, "Sixties" 335 to me means reflector knobs, either a dot board with the "Slim Taper" neck profile of '61 - '62, block inlays and a more rounded neck if you mean '63 - '64, or a narrow nut, trapese tailpiece shallow peghead angle from '65 onward into the fog of the '70s. PLUS, let us not forget the '64 (I think) addition of the 345/355 open wire channel under the bridge pickup, which changes the tone of the entire guitar. Gibson applies this a bit willy-nilly in odern 335s, but fortunately my '59 RI has a solid center block, which is accurate to that era.
Like Strats, Teles & Les Pauls, no GAS-driven arsenal is complete without a good 335. (It's a good idea to get this understanding in writing as part of the pre-nuptial agreement, 'y know?)
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Mar 8, 2020 11:57:30 GMT -5
Some interesting info SoK66. My interest in the 335 came by way of an unusual connection. I was a huge Moody Blues fan (still am) and always dug Justin Hayward's cello-like guitar parts. When I found an opportunity to snag a 67 for $400 I jumped. It had an early Dimarzio super distortion in the bridge but the original pickup was included and I quickly swapped it out. That guitar was a dandy.
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Post by LTB on Mar 8, 2020 23:12:53 GMT -5
You get the snotty green ones aftermarket, too. Maybe not quite as snotty as the linked image. Well, the ones on my Gibson SG looked off white in my house. When I was in Guitar Center today trading it in Under the bright white lighting I was surprised to see it too had the Green tuners. I do not know why they would put snot green on them... |
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Post by LTB on Mar 9, 2020 2:20:23 GMT -5
Stock Gibson tuner that came on my SG Standard vs Kluson Locking Tuners I put on it. While they aren’t extremely green you can see a difference i.imgur.com/wO8KRG7.jpg |
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