You can contact me here to sell a vintage Gibson guitar.ĮS-345 history: The ES-345 came out in 1959 and was the third of the Thinline Electric Spanish 3x5 line. I’ll bring the cameras along for the entire story of sourcing a golden era Gibson Les Paul (spoiler alert: It’s gold). Have you subscribed to the channel yet? Here it is: ĭo you want to sell a vintage Gibson ES-345 guitar? I'm always looking to buy vintage Gibson guitars but I especially love the ES-345 model. Also, I just booked a flight for a guitar safari across the United States for two weeks from posting this video that I’d love for you to see. I’m going to go through the story of each guitar, compare the list of similarities and differences, and play them back to back to see which one you prefer. Notable ES-345 players include guitar connoisseur Steve Howe, who can be heard playing his Sunburst model on the Yes prog masterpiece, Close To The Edge.Here's the next YouTube video I've been working on: I’ve got two vintage Gibson ES-345 guitars that are only 4 years apart but made in 2 different Gibson factories. This gorgeous ’65 Sunburst model features a single-bound rosewood fingerboard with double parallelogram inlays, a trapeze tailpiece with raised diamond motif, gold hardware, PAF pickups and the longer, non-rounded horns prevalent on the 60s 335 series. The pickguard was also shortened in 1961 so that it no longer extended beyond the bridge and Gibson dropped the ‘jazz style’ tailpiece in 1982 in favour of the Les Paul-type ‘stop’ variety. The model has seen some variations in its livery since introduction - for instance, on early models, the ring around the Varitone switch was black, with the upgrade to gold being introduced during the second year of production. One thing that set the 345 apart was its Varitone switching and stereo wiring, the former having achieved some notoriety in guitar circles, with many players insisting that it did more harm than good! 'One thing that set the 345 apart was its Varitone switching and stereo wiring' In order to achieve this, the 335-style instruments had a maple block running the length of the body to add warmth and sustain as well as eliminate troublesome feedback in one fell swoop. Like its stablemates, the 345 was originally designed to summon up the mellowness of an f-hole jazzer and combine it with the raunch of a solidbody. Launched in 1959, the ES-345 was aimed to sit in between the 335 and the slightly more luxuriously appointed 355 models in the Gibson catalogue. (Image credit: Neil Godwin/Future) Introduction

Gibson 345 stereo guitar