Rare Special Factory Order!

This unbelievably light (5.20 lbs.) guitar is a rare special factory order with split-parallelogram inlays and wide jumbo frets. Laminated maple top, back, and sides, one-piece medium-to-thin (but definately not 'skinny') profile mahogany neck, and rosewood fretboard with 22 wide jumbo frets and inlaid pearl split-parallelogram position markers. With a nice fat nut width of just under 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Individual closed-back Kluson Deluxe tuners with white plastic oval buttons. Two hot black P-90 pickups with outputs of 9.36k and 7.61k. Five-layer (black/white/black/white/black) plastic pickguard with bevelled edge. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way selector switch. Gold plastic bell-shaped "Bell" knobs. ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge and trapeze tailpiece with raised diamond on cross-bar. Apart from the usual body checking and a small amount of minor marking to the back of the neck, this incredibly rare guitar is in exceptionally fine condition. Housed in its original Gibson brown hardshell case with purple plush lining (8.00).

This beautiful example is the only specially-ordered variant we have ever seen! The color is much darker and richer than the usual Natural finish.

Built with the same body shape as the ES-335T, but not the same semi-solid construction, the ES-330T/TD were originally introduced in 1959 as a replacement for the single cutaway ES-225T/TD. The single pickup version was phased out in 1963, but the ES-330TD remained in production until 1972. The main differences from the more expensive ($282.50) ES-335 were the absence of the solid center block and the use of a trapeze tailpiece rather than a stop tailpiece. All examples have the usual dot inlays on the neck. Only 294 ES-330TD's came out in Natural (the ES-330TDN) between 1959 and 1960 (selling at $265.00), but because this guitar was a special factory order it would have cost more.