Scotty Moore Rides Again…

This incredible guitar weighs just 6.10 lbs. and has a very comfortable nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Reminiscent of the ES-175, with the same sharp-edged single Florentine cutaway and pearl split-parallelogram inlays, this wonderful guitar has a 16-inch-wide laminated maple body, one-piece mahogany neck with a medium to thick profile, and rosewood fretboard with 19 original thin frets and inlaid pearl split-parallelogram position markers. Headstock with inlaid pearl "Gibson" logo and pearl crown inlay. Two-layer (black on white) plastic truss-rod cover secured by two screws. Individual single-line "no-name" Kluson Deluxe tuners with single-ring Keystone plastic buttons. Two original P-90 pickups with outputs of 7.98k and 9.62k. Cream plastic pickup covers, each secured by two screws. Clear plastic pickguard back-painted in cream and embossed with a gold floral design. Four controls (two volume, two tone) on lower treble bout plus three-way pickup selector switch on upper bass bout. Gold plastic barrel-shaped "speed" knobs (.50 inch tall). Les Paul combination trapeze bridge/tailpiece with strings looping over the bridge. All hardware gold-plated. With the original Gibson white oval label inside the bass f-hole, with the style "ES-295" written in black ink and the serial number stamped in black. Inside the treble f-hole is the FON number. This guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition, with only the tiniest amount of finish checking and none of the "greening" that always plagues the gold finish on this model. Quite simply the second finest and most original ES-295 we have ever seen or heard of! (we had an equally minty 1952 example which we sold seven years ago). Housed in the original Gibson brown hardshell case with purple plush lining (9.00).