Madness Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Hey, im curious to know what Gibsons are fully hollow and what ones are semi-hollow with a center block:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundaddy Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Oh man that's a big question because there have been sooo many models that have been introduced and discontinued over the years... I'm about to get in over my head but what the hell? I'll do it fast and loose Semi hollow ES models: 135, 137, (anything that starts with a 3, as in 335 - I could be wrong about this, but it's a good rule of thumb) Full hollow ES models: 175, 295, 125, 150, 350, Trini Lopez, Byrdland, L-anything (as in L-5), everything else *I promise I left something out, and I hope somebody else chimes in on this, it could get interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 333 Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Oh man that's a big question because there have been sooo many models that have been introduced and discontinued over the years... Semi hollow ES models...anything that starts with a 3' date=' as in 335 - I could be wrong about this, but it's a good rule of thumb) [/quote'] ES 330 is the exception to the "3" rule! Red 333 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Salina Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 I have an ES165 Herb Ellis, 1998, in essence a one pickup ES-175. So related to what brundaddy stated (apologies if I misinterpreted) it to is a full hollow body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundaddy Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 ES 330 is the exception to the "3" rule!Red 333 Touche! Thank you. Yea that & the 350 I mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troels Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 ...anything that starts with a 3' date=' as in 335 - I could be wrong about this, but it's a good rule of thumb)... [/quote'] Yes you are wrong... 330 is full hollow body even still a thinline! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundaddy Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Isn't this a fun game? You'd think Gibson would have a big fat list or catalog of their production over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qblue Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 The ES-330 is an exception to the 3-rule for thinlines. Listen to Grant Green if you want to hear it played by a master. The 335, 345, 355, 336, BB King, 357 prototype, and discontinued ES-347 are semi-hollow, too. I thought the Trini Lopez model was a semi-hollow, based on the 335, with diamond soundholes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundaddy Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Hm, so then there;s the almighty es 350 (hollow) & a new one I learned about recently that is AWESOME, es 446 (hollow, but falls into my inaccurate 'rule of thumb') Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ES345 Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Howard Roberts Fusion III Semi - Hollow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brrobert Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 ES 125 is full hollow, also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobv Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Aw, c'mon. You're leaving out an important one. Murph, where are you when we need you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarJunkie Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 A simple tip, if it has a stop-tailpiece 99.9% of the time, it's a semi-hollow. If it has a trapeze (not Bigsby) tailpiece, then there's a better than average chance it's a full hollowbody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Aw' date=' c'mon. You're leaving out an important one. Murph, where are you when we need you?[/quote'] I've got a working vacation, home project going on, but I know the answer................. THE ES-339 was missing. But I thought there were some chambered ES models, as well........................... How's that gonna fit? I'LL BE BACK......................... Murph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundaddy Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 A simple tip' date=' if it has a stop-tailpiece 99.9% of the time, it's a semi-hollow. If it has a trapeze (not Bigsby) tailpiece, then there's a better than average chance it's a full hollowbody.[/quote'] Well of course, if ya can look at a pic or an actual guitar you can say that... but making a list going by the model numbers, it gets messy. I think it would be interesting to see if we could do it, if we actually could start a list of the ES models produced over the years and categorize em into Hollow & Semi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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