OK ... show us your 335s (and 345s and 355s)

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Re: OK ... show us your 335s (and 345s and 355s)

Post by JamesSGBrown » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:33 pm

Beauties in here.
The Tokai semis are amongst the best I've ever played, and the Bernard Butler fanboi in me wishes I could rock one.
Alas, my small stature means I look like a complete prick when playing one standing up (and a 339 just ironically makes it even more obvious how vertically challenged I am)

Can 330's come into this thread? Played a '65 one recently and it might have been the single finest guitar I've ever laid hands on.

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Re: OK ... show us your 335s (and 345s and 355s)

Post by sookwinder » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:55 pm

Yeah throw in some 330s if you’ve got them
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Re: OK ... show us your 335s (and 345s and 355s)

Post by MrFingers » Fri Jul 30, 2021 3:52 am

It IS a 335... body.

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It remains the benchmark for nicest sunburst ever. From 1964.

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Re: OK ... show us your 335s (and 345s and 355s)

Post by tammyw » Sat Aug 07, 2021 2:32 pm

I bought this a couple years ago because it's pretty. It has the bridge posts screwed directly into the wood, and the tailpiece came with locking studs. It's a nice guitar, though it doesn't especially suit me. I think they called it glacier burst. 8)

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Re: OK ... show us your 335s (and 345s and 355s)

Post by Embenny » Sat Aug 07, 2021 2:44 pm

That's a great finish. I have no idea why blue bursts are so rare, they can be among the nicest colour schemes in my opinion.

There was a "blueberry burst" offered on one of the recent years of Les Pauls, and then Epiphone copied it on their 335. The Gibson version looks even better - Gibson is up there with G&L as masters of blue bursts.
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Re: OK ... show us your 335s (and 345s and 355s)

Post by Highnumbers » Wed Aug 11, 2021 11:09 am

With no disrespect to the offsets (huge love for the Jazzmaster!), Gibson ES models are my absolute favorite guitars.

A bunch of really good ones have gone through my hands over the past year.

I clearly have a 'type' and think these guitars look best in cherry. (The '61 355 and '63 330 on the right were sold last year)
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My 'desert island' guitar is this super beat up '64 335. My all-time favorite guitar.
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Epiphones basically count, right? Here's a '64 Riviera in Royal Tan.
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This one recently joined the family, it's an early 1960 ES-330. Pretty different from all the others, these are unusual guitars that sound great unplugged too.
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The other great color for ES is Black. This one is a Custom Shop that was modified with vintage parts, and aged by somebody. Sadly, I sold this one a few months ago. :fp:
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Post by sal paradise » Wed Aug 11, 2021 12:45 pm

Wow 🤩 not much more I can say there. Just beautiful.
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Re: OK ... show us your 335s (and 345s and 355s)

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Wed Aug 11, 2021 2:06 pm

Highnumbers wrote:
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...these are unusual guitars that sound great unplugged too.
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I bet.

Quite an array of beautiful guitars, not to mention some tantilising glimpses of Vox & Rickenbackers locked away in the background.

But that 330, man!!! The burst takes me back to my old '59 125T that I sold and I know just how good P90s of this era sounded.
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Re: OK ... show us your 335s (and 345s and 355s)

Post by Highnumbers » Wed Aug 11, 2021 3:09 pm

PorkyPrimeCut wrote:
Wed Aug 11, 2021 2:06 pm
I bet.

Quite an array of beautiful guitars, not to mention some tantilising glimpses of Vox & Rickenbackers locked away in the background.

But that 330, man!!! The burst takes me back to my old '59 125T that I sold and I know just how good P90s of this era sounded.
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Yep the 330 only arrived last week, but it's quickly become a keeper. These are such great guitars, and possibly the ultimate at-home guitar (either unplugged, or at lower volumes). They just sing, and weigh practically nothing.

The 125T is cool! I've never owned one, but that's still one of the most affordable guitars from that era and they sound great.

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Post by andy » Wed Aug 11, 2021 7:24 pm

Here’s my 63 VOS reissue. Best guitar ever!
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Re: OK ... show us your 335s (and 345s and 355s)

Post by bossaddict » Mon Sep 06, 2021 6:47 pm

Here's my '62 ebony block 355

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Re: OK ... show us your 335s (and 345s and 355s)

Post by zhivago » Mon Sep 06, 2021 11:30 pm

Excellent photography, as always! ^^^^

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Post by CorporateDisguise » Tue Sep 07, 2021 3:34 am

That ebony block 355 makes my heart ache.

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Re: OK ... show us your 335s (and 345s and 355s)

Post by bossaddict » Wed Sep 08, 2021 6:10 am

zhivago wrote:
Mon Sep 06, 2021 11:30 pm
Excellent photography, as always! ^^^^

:-* 8)
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That ebony block 355 makes my heart ache.
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Re: OK ... show us your 335s (and 345s and 355s)

Post by Despot » Sat Sep 11, 2021 8:53 am

I am conscious that I’m almost morally obliged to post on this thread. And I promise to do that later when I’m back to my desktop…

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