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Some very minor wear and checking, some average light fret wear and finish loss to the back of the neck but really this guitar appears to have seen only very careful use in 60+ years. Warm, rich P-90 tone tone coupled with a woody acousticness. Very much like an ES-125, but with trapezoid fretboard inlays.
#Used gibson es 125 serial#
A serial or factory order number could not be located, so it's difficult to pinpoint the exact year of the guitar. A superbly clean, all original example-one of the nicest 1950's ES-125's we have seen in a while. What makes this guitar special: Very rare Gibson hollow body model from the early '50s. I had a 1952 ES-125 for a few years, but sold it long ago for 300. Ive seen ones from the 60s & 70s in the 500-750 range and ones from the 40s & 50s in the 800 - 1200 range. (8.3 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. The original Gibsons arent that expensive over here. (40.6 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 3 1/4 in.
#Used gibson es 125 professional#
This is a very good playing and sounding guitar although marketed as a student model the ES-125 were fully functional as a professional quality instrument and are often seen in period photographs with players of many styles. Introduced in 1941 as the successor to the ES-100, the ES-125 was an entry-level archtop electric guitar.
#Used gibson es 125 code#
This guitar has been refinished and was owned and played by Kaleo. Usage instructions Paste the following code into the top of an article, filling all known (or relevant) fields: Aligelmnet The Gibson ES-125 is an archtop, hollow body electric guitar model that was produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. The knobs are the gold-backed "barrel" style with numbers-also a new feature this year- and the post-war "Gibson" logo decal is still the earliest "joined dot" version. This version of the ES-125 features a thin body with a Florentine cutaway, sunburst finish, dual P-90s and a Bigsby. The tailpiece is an off-the-rack part not specific to Gibson and the tuners are Kluson Deluxes, 3 to a plate which had just come into use in 1949. This guitar has a 16" wide body of laminated maple and the pickup is Gibson's classic P-90 with adjustable poles but the earlier narrow cover. This is a superb original example of Gibson's post-WWII ES-125, the "bread and butter" electric during the late 1940's and early '50's. The ES-125 actually sounds closer to our ES-330, but it has a distinct twangy woodiness that can almost certainly be attributed to the bridge.
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ES-125 TDC's from this time are somewhat scarce, especially in sunburst (most at this time were cherry). Wonderful and very clean ES-125-TDC from 1967. Far more so than our own ES-225, but there isn’t anything like as much sustain. Signal Chain Gibson ES-125 Archtop Guitar 26071 - Used. Gibson ES-125 Model Arch Top Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1950), made in Kalamazoo, Michigan, serial # FON# 5936-23, sunburst top, dark back and sides finish, maple body,mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard, original brown hard shell case. Played unplugged, the ES-125 has pretty impressive bass for a thinline, and it’s loud, clear and bright.