1967 Gibson ES-330
Rare Custom Color!
This unbelievably light guitar weighs just 5.90 lbs. Laminated maple top, back, and sides, one-piece mahogany neck with a medium to thick profile, a medium nut width of 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 23 3/4 inches. Rosewood fretboard with 22 jumbo frets and inlaid pearl block position markers. Inlaid pearl "Gibson" headstock logo. Individual Kluson Deluxe tuners with white plastic oval buttons. Two chrome-covered P-90s with outputs of 7.96k and 7.93k. Five-layer (black/white/black/white/black) plastic pickguard. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way selector switch, all on lower treble bout. Black plastic ribbed-sided conical-shaped "Witch Hat" knobs. Tune-O-Matic retainer bridge with white plastic saddles and trapeze tailpiece with raised diamond on cross-bar. There is a small surface chip on the bass side edge of the headstock (approximately 5/8 x 3/8 inch) and some minimal body checking to the finish. A former owner has painted red dye on the inside back of the guitar under the f-holes so that on stage under lights the guitar would appear all one color inside and out. A spectacular example of this rare custom color, which is totally original and unfaded, with no wear to the neck whatsoever. Housed in a seventies Gibson black hardshell case with blue plush lining (9.00). Very few Burgundy Metallic guitars were made between 1966 and 1968. Larry Meiners's Gibson Shipment Totals 1937-1979 does not specify how many were made in this color.
Known affectionately as the "poor man's dot neck guitar," the ES-330 was numerically speaking, the biggest seller of the double cutaway series in the late fifties and early sixties, even if it was not a real semi-solid guitar! Built with the same body shape as the ES-335, but not the same solid construction, the ES-330T/TD were originally introduced in 1959 as a replacement for the single cutaway ES-225T/TD. 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 as opposed to the 335's stop tailpiece. These guitars are very underrated and undervalued...and disappearing fast!
This unbelievably light guitar weighs just 5.90 lbs. Laminated maple top, back, and sides, one-piece mahogany neck with a medium to thick profile, a medium nut width of 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 23 3/4 inches. Rosewood fretboard with 22 jumbo frets and inlaid pearl block position markers. Inlaid pearl "Gibson" headstock logo. Individual Kluson Deluxe tuners with white plastic oval buttons. Two chrome-covered P-90s with outputs of 7.96k and 7.93k. Five-layer (black/white/black/white/black) plastic pickguard. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way selector switch, all on lower treble bout. Black plastic ribbed-sided conical-shaped "Witch Hat" knobs. Tune-O-Matic retainer bridge with white plastic saddles and trapeze tailpiece with raised diamond on cross-bar. There is a small surface chip on the bass side edge of the headstock (approximately 5/8 x 3/8 inch) and some minimal body checking to the finish. A former owner has painted red dye on the inside back of the guitar under the f-holes so that on stage under lights the guitar would appear all one color inside and out. A spectacular example of this rare custom color, which is totally original and unfaded, with no wear to the neck whatsoever. Housed in a seventies Gibson black hardshell case with blue plush lining (9.00). Very few Burgundy Metallic guitars were made between 1966 and 1968. Larry Meiners's Gibson Shipment Totals 1937-1979 does not specify how many were made in this color.
Known affectionately as the "poor man's dot neck guitar," the ES-330 was numerically speaking, the biggest seller of the double cutaway series in the late fifties and early sixties, even if it was not a real semi-solid guitar! Built with the same body shape as the ES-335, but not the same solid construction, the ES-330T/TD were originally introduced in 1959 as a replacement for the single cutaway ES-225T/TD. 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 as opposed to the 335's stop tailpiece. These guitars are very underrated and undervalued...and disappearing fast!
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