Cap6000 Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 I just bought this ES 330L. Long & McQuade said it is the last one in Canada and they are no longer being made. I guess the VOS model has replaced it. I have wanted a ES 330 for a long time so I cannot begin to say how stoked I am. I added a Bigsby B7 and changed out the Strings to 11's. Tuning is very stable and intonation is spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKahune Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 . Beautiful 330. The Bigsby looks great on it. I don't see the stop anchors - did you have them removed? Congrats. . B) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 . Beautiful 330. The Bigsby looks great on it. I don't see the stop anchors - did you have them removed? Congrats. . B) . Um...ES-330 with stoptail? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKahune Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 . Oops . . . . trapeze. Stein I'm sure you meant to leave a comment on the nice Bigsby job too. . :P . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 I thought it went without saying... But anyway, as if it isn't plainly obvious: There are FEW guitars or TYPES of guitars that are as great as a full hollow, P90's, AND thinline with the neck and shape of a 335. Add a bigsby to THAT, and you have what amounts to the best of everything in one axe. It not only makes a guitar with as much balls as any guitar, but also demostrates balls of a certain stature of one who would mount a bigsby on such a guitar. To me, this is what justifies and explains what exactly is the true meaning of the name on the headstock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap6000 Posted October 10, 2012 Author Share Posted October 10, 2012 Thanks for the replies. I don't know if adding a Bigsby b7 to my ES 330 took balls or not, but I added it within a hour of getting it home. I learned to play when I was a kid in the sixties when hollow body guitars with bigsby's were not uncommon at all. Back then My first guitar was a japanies made hollowbody with a tremolo arm that was over a foot long. I packed that guitar everywhere for the next 10 years. To say it was the one thing I owned that meant everything to me would be an understatement. Today I m pushing sixty years old and have owned and still own many different guitars but the ES330 is like welcoming back an old friend. There is just nothing else quite like it and yes it just had to have a Bigsby to be complete. The Les Paul and Strat will be lonely for a while I am happily getting requainted with an old friend. Fantastic guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 HNGD - it's a beauty!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmothy Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Beautiful guitar. I've been sitting at my computer with my finger hovering over the order button to buy a similar one online but being a student makes guitar buying hard and I haven't had the nerve to pull the trigger. A cherry red '65 330 with the chrome P-90s is my dream guitar. Hope yours sounds as good as it looks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon S. Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Congrats!! The Bigsby looks great on it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Nice!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 NICE!! I love it! Incidentally I have an ES-135 that came with the trapeze tail piece, (see ya!) Installing the bigsby was pretty easy, and it transformed that axe in to one killer PAF equipped blues machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazorge Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 I just bought this ES 330L. Long & McQuade said it is the last one in Canada and they are no longer being made. I guess the VOS model has replaced it. I have wanted a ES 330 for a long time so I cannot begin to say how stoked I am. I added a Bigsby B7 and changed out the Strings to 11's. Tuning is very stable and intonation is spot on. Beautiful guitar! I got a red 330-L and truly love it. I've never seen the ES-330L truss rod cover before. Yours looks really nice. Congrats! -B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser Bill Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 Congratulations... I hope it brings you years of trouble free playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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