Hello everyone, I'm writing this post to ask you a question regarding a guitar that someone close to me gave me as a gift, an ES-355TD Stereo.
I have been told that it is a custom made guitar (factory order), and I'm not sure it's right; I don't know much on vintage Gibsons, my only two other Gibsons are a Les Paul Slash Signature vermillion and a SG, which have both been produced much more recently. I looked up the guitar's serial number on an online search engine, which just says that the instrument has been made in the Kalamazoo plant in Michigan in 1967, but that's just about all of the decisive information I was able to find online.
As you'll see from the pics that I've attached, this beautiful guitar isn't equipped with a bigsby-style tremolo, but with a fixed arch anchoring the strings instead; aside from that, every other component seems identical to every other picture that I've found online. The serial number (in case the picture doesn't show it clearly enough) is 055529.
In your expert opinion, is this beautiful guitar really a custom made one?
Thank you for your time and attention.
Best regards,
Marco
Guitar's pictures
https://imgur.com/a/d1D0s7O
