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  1. A couple of photos of mine to keep you interested, can't really see properly from the photos, but she's a looker for sure. For me much prettier than the VOS, who cares what she plays like!
  2. I have a 330L in antique cherry. To be honest it's hard to put down, it looks and plays beautifully. I love the neck. I tried it next to a Casino, but acoustically (unplugged) there is simply no competition, the Gibson is gorgeous. I play it unplugged all the time. My brother is a far more experienced guitar picker than me and he loves the P90's to bits, and the guitar in general. A few things I like about it: The neck is very accessible and has a longer tenon joint that is stronger than the vintage long neck (post 67 is it?). Possibly this even improves the tone. The dimensions of the long neck are exactly the same as a 335, which will be great when I can justify buying a 335 block. At the price (£1600 for me), this is about the best 'custom shop' value for money you'll ever get, including COA and hard case. The only odd thing about this one for me is that considering the long neck, maybe nickel PU covers would have been more appropriate? Still, easy to change. You've already decided to buy one? You won't regret it.
  3. Yes I already knew where my guitar was made, and I already knew what year it was made, but it's nice to have an explanation of what the serial number means isn't it? We now know (more or less) that since about 2010 Memphis numbering starts from 50000, there is Gibson precident for this sort of numbering scheme I think. R9, I think you're right about the ES's. Memphis Custom shop basically does the production ES's, solids and historics done in Nashvillle.
  4. Yes I realised that shortly after I had written my response. Presumably one doesn't have to be an employee of Gibson to use that Avatar, but the group "Customer Services Team" clinches it. I'm new to these forums as you can see. Anyway, It's pretty clear to me that "5" is Memphis and probably "0" is Nashville, but the wording of the response is slightly vague if this is the case. I don't really understand why Gibson doesn't either make their serial numbers completely obscure and stop publishing them, if it's counterfeits they are worried about, or explain fully and update descriptions of the method, which is clearly a new one.
  5. Thanks Stijn, So are you confirming that the 5 indicates a Memphis guitar? I was guessing that the '5' is either for Memphis. or perhaps for the 330, but it would be nice if this could be confirmed 100% I have emailed Gibson, and although this may be completely uninteresting to most on this forum, I am very curious to confirm.
  6. Tell me how it helps. Did you read my post? My full serial number is CS154648, I have it in front of me right now so that's definitely the number. Custom Shop regular production models CSYRRRR CS stands for "Custom Shop" Y indicates the production year RRRR indicates the guitar's place in the sequence of production Example: CS10845 is the 845th reg. production CS model produced in 2001. So my guitar is Custom Shop production number 54648 from 2011?? Sounds like a lot of guitars to me!
  7. I bought a new ES-330L about a month ago, great guitar! I have a question about the new 6 digit CS serial numbers. All of the serial number de-coders I have read about state that CS production serial numbers will always be CS followed by 5 digits, where the first digit is the year. The serial number on my guitar is CS15xxxx. I take this to mean made in 2011, but I can't beleive the CS knocked out 50000+ guitars in 2011 so what do the other 5 digits mean? I've seen this on a lot of CS guitars now (ones I looked at when buying), Also I know someone with a cs-356 which is CS103xxx. Incidentally, does anyone have the original spec or any Gibson released details on the es-330L? As it's now out of production I can't find anything apart from the dealer info. Thanks in advance.
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