1963 GIBSON ES 125 FULL

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. Far more so than our own ES-225, but there isnвЂ™t anything like as much sustain. Played unplugged, the ES-125 has pretty impressive bass for a thinline, and itвЂ™s loud, clear and bright. The guitar plays perfectly as is, and the frets are a light dressing away from perfection. Since this guitar has not been used heavily, the wide and medium height frets have plenty more miles left in them and very few flat spots. The fingerboard is in similarly fine fettle, and an absence of dirt shows the colour and complexity of the Brazilian rosewood in all its beauty. Although thereвЂ™s one dent on the front edge of the lower bout, between the pickguard bracket and controls, thereвЂ™s almost no playwear on the back of the neck and the headstock has never needed to be repaired. ThereвЂ™s lacquer checking all over, but weвЂ™re talking fine lines rather than finish flakiness. It has a standard width, itвЂ™s fast, comfortable and oddly contemporary. ThereвЂ™s not a great deal of depth and it feels more like a flattened D than a C. It bears no resemblance to the fatter 50s profiles and instead feels closer to the type of neck carve you might associate with Fenders of 1963.

The cherry back and sides are no less vibrant, and while the top veneer is a single piece, thereвЂ™s a centre join at the back.Д¬learly these are all 1960s Gibson features, but the biggest giveaway is the neck profile and this example is fairly typical of the era. The cherry sunburst is much the same, too, and removing the pickguard confirms that the вЂtomato soupвЂ™ redness has barely faded. Outside there are four вЂmirrorвЂ™ knobs identical to those used on the last of the Bursts. Peeking inside with an inspection mirror, we see four intact original potentiometers and a pair of Sprague вЂblack beautyвЂ™ capacitors. This feature, which gave the ES-225 some of the sustain characteristics and feedback resistance of a semi-solid, was dropped for the ES-330 and all the ES-125TC models.

1963 GIBSON ES 125 FULL

As noted above, it comes complete with its original Gibson hard shell case and is straight off the workbench with a full pro setup вЂ“ plug her in and cut loose!ДЄs with all Just Guitars instruments, FREE COURIER DELIVERY is included to any address in Australia.The ES-225 had a substantial maple block glued under the top, right between the parallel braces.

In Excellent- condition, your new ES-125 will blow your, your friends, your bandmates and your audiences away, with both its wondrous looks and supremely vintage tone.

The neck profile is the same as the then new, slimmer 'C' profile of the classic Les Pauls, so no baseball bat here. But forВ rocking out, nailing every run & every lead note andВ looking cool onstage, this is the classic, vintage axe you're looking for.ДЄll American Maple body, Honduran Mahogany neck, Rosewood board, compensated Rosewood bridge, 3-way pickup selector, trapeze tailpiece, tortoise pickguard, and a killer set of original Gibson P-90s. The 125's sheer versatility вЂ“ as shown by the artists listed above вЂ“ can even take in the completely unexpected throw on a set of flatwounds and this thinline is more than happy to get all jazzy. In the hands of such artists as Sheryl Crow, Tracy Chapman, Thom Yorke and the legendary George 'Bad To The Bone'В Thorogood, the ES-125 has great sustain, rarely feeds back and is light enough for you to power through your whole gig, without needing to change guitars. And it's still in really fantastic condition!В Vintage-aged Kluson tuners aside, the guitar is all original, including its original Gibson hard shell case, (see pic # 8 and right). This mega-cool Cherry Sunburst ES-125 TDC, ( Thinline, Dual pickups, Cutaway), was built at the original Gibson factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan, right about the time the Beatles were beginning to hit the bigtime. When some of music's all timeВ biggest names regularly strap on a particular guitar, you can bet it's a guitar that, a) covers a lot of ground, and, b) it's a model that you probably need for yourself.

1963 gibson es 125