Description

All original, and simply a joy to play, this nearly vintage Gibson ES-175 takes a lot of beating. Pick it up and you immediately know you are holding an instrument of high quality. Play it and it feels luscious, responding beautifully with those humbucking pickups and cavernous maple laminate body.

Compared side by side with a golden era 175 from the 60s and it feels a little heavier, with the varnish being thicker and darker. Tonewise and player feel, you’d be hard pressed to tell them apart, so for the jazz or rock player looking for a good 175 this guitar represents very good value indeed. The neck is particularly good, being 1-11/16" width and having the full depth normally associated with the early sixties.

There’s a 1” x ½” scuff mark on the back and the grain is lifting slightly in four or five places on the back. You can see this in the picture of the back which shows the reflection. It’s stable though and purely cosmetic (and on the back!) There's a "2" beneath the serial number on the back of the headstock indicating it was marked out as a factory second, although no normal person would ever be expected to even see the reason for this marking, and the "2" has no impact on the guitar or its value.

The original hard case is a joy too with deep purple plush lining.

Gibson ES-175 D electic guitar

• 16” wide maple laminate body with florentine cutaway
• Mahogany neck with volute
• 1-11/16" width at nut
• Rosewood fretboard with double parallelogram markers
• Gibson flower logo tuners
• Headstock with Gibson crown logo
• Chrome plated tailpiece with raised parallelograms
• Tune-O-matic bridge
• Two humbucking pickups
• Pickup selector switch
• Two volume and two tone controls with black reflector knobs
• Original hard case

175 tags

Gibson ES-175, Gibson ES 175, Gibson 175, 175, 175 D, classic jazz guitar, jazz box, jazz sound, tailpiece, Kluson, Steve Howe, Joe Pass, Florentine (pointed) cutaway, vintage Gibson