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If I could make a request for a subsequent interview at the "Sanctuary" : a video trip through your library of ES-3x5s and ES-330s. Here, in particular, a view of how the roundness / pointiness of the "ears" evolved from 1958 onwards, the thickness of the tops, and at which serial # and/FON...
The Heritage, Heritage Elite, and the very rare Heritage Award guitars have an uncharacteristically "pointy" horn in the cutaway. I am seeing a conventional round horn on this guitar.
Beautiful Mike, thanks or sharing.
Begs the question: at what serial # did transitions occur: 1955 from wraparound to TOM, and 1957 from P-90s to PAFs? Or was there even overlap where, say, there is a higher serial on a P-90 '57 than a humbucker '57? I guess I should also look that up in...