jimmyl51

Gibson is really going down the tubes..........

If my memory is serving me correctly didn't this guitar when it was hanging there at Gianniani come originally with a trapeze tailpiece on it? jim

I remember going into Giannini Music Center store on Irving Park Road when I was living in Chicagoland at that very time and seeing this exact guitar on the wall there! I must have just have just missed you as this guitar was still there when I went back to Giannini the following day as I was trying to figure out was an ES-240 was as to this day nobody has ever heard of it...... I then called Gibson in Lincolnwood at the time to find out what this guitar was. Again no answers so to this day your guitar remains a bit of a mystery! jim in Maine

It was up to the line inspector to not have signed off on that guitar of yours until that issue with the pickup was fixed.........a little thing but darn these guitars are not cheap especially in our current economy............sorry for my rant but my much beloved USA has got to start getting all of these 'little' things right otherwise the other countries WILL get it right..............jim in Maine

Yep if you want it done right you have to have either the Japanese,Chinese or Koreans do the work. It ain't going to happen with a USA firm these days which is sad. The whole thing makes me sick as I compare the Gibsons of the late '50's to todays guitars. To sum up you MIGHT get a really nice Gibson however the odds are that you will not get a really nice Gibson......this whole thing with the pickup should be a non-issue but only points out lack of follow through on the part of Gibson's line manager at the time of said guitars time of manufacture........jim in Maine

I can very clearly remember playing some original '59 L.P.'s when I lived in Chicagoland back in the late 70's before the Japanese and later the Chinese starting buying everything up. In short some were very cool and frankly some were lousy IMHO. What I do remember is that nothing cost more than $1200 if you could believe that...............jim in Maine

Can I ask why Gibson is using IMHO anyways these volume and tone control knobs that really don't do much justice to these 335's rather than using the traditional tophat knobs that used to come on the historic reissue instruments? I know its being petty but at least to my mind little things matter especially when one is putting out big bucks for these guitars...jim in Oklanoma City at Tinker AFB

BJB = Bruce Bolan who was one of Gibsons guys who would go out and introduce their new guitars to the public in the late 1970's.......nice guy, met him in Chicago years ago when he was doing his thing! I don't know if you will be very happy with the 165........NO comparison to an ES-175 in regards to quality of build IMHO. Why Gibson went to a floater on that guitar is beyond me. They should have stayed with a set-in humbucker.... jim in Maine