The 335 I've wanted for decades is coming my way

[Jethro Rocker]

Congratulations! I dig my 1964 Murphy Lab Ultra Light Aged. Oddly, I am left-handed, but play guitar right-handed.

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Beautiful!!
It makes sense as yoir strength is inherently in your left hand as such. Rik Emmett plays like that as well, it sure didn't hurt him!! Cheers

 

[ch willie]

Playing with photoshop backgrounds. lol--Looks like the tuning pegs are missing.

Anyway, I am not disappointed with this beauty. I played it through my Vox AC30, and it was good, but it really came alive with my 2008 Fender Deluxe.

 

[jb_abides]

Playing with photoshop backgrounds. lol--Looks like the tuning pegs are missing.

Anyway, I am not disappointed with this beauty. I played it through my Vox AC30, and it was good, but it really came alive with my 2008 Fender Deluxe.

It has got that 'Space Cadet Glow' ... sign of a real player!

 

[ch willie]

It has got that 'Space Cadet Glow' ... sign of a real player!

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You can't argue with that space cadet glow. The show must go on!

 

[Bob Womack]

Anyway, I am not disappointed with this beauty. I played it through my Vox AC30, and it was good, but it really came alive with my 2008 Fender Deluxe.

There you go. I've got a Deluxe Reverb and the two just go together. Lots of studio player consider the Deluxe Reverb to be the universal soldier with an ES-335. The 5E3 Tweed Deluxe also does really well, but when I began using a modeler more for sessions, I found the Deluxe Reverb model to be the most versatile starting point for me.

Bob

 

[Cliff Gress]

A 335 will probably be my last guitar purchase. I'd like a blonde with a bit of burl. Mortgage first though, but that's ending soon!

 

[AA00475Bassman]

Very nice enjoy your new guitar .

 

[Wilko]

There you go. I've got a Deluxe Reverb and the two just go together. Lots of studio player consider the Deluxe Reverb to be the universal soldier with an ES-335. The 5E3 Tweed Deluxe also does really well, but when I began using a modeler more for sessions, I found the Deluxe Reverb model to be the most versatile starting point for me.

Bob

I use a '64 Deluxe Reverb most of the time. Magic with a 335. Tweed (for me) just goes to mush with any Gibson. A magical mush for recording things like those David Lindley type fills on Late for the Sky) but for a full gig, the Deluxe is just so sweet.

a sample:

 

[ch willie]

I use a '64 Deluxe Reverb most of the time. Magic with a 335. Tweed (for me) just goes to mush with any Gibson. A magical mush for recording things like those David Lindley type fills on Late for the Sky) but for a full gig, the Deluxe is just so sweet.

a sample:

Fantastic tone, great playing!

 

[Wilko]

Fantastic tone, great playing!

Thanks!

 

[Bob Womack]

I use a '64 Deluxe Reverb most of the time. Magic with a 335. Tweed (for me) just goes to mush with any Gibson. A magical mush for recording things like those David Lindley type fills on Late for the Sky) but for a full gig, the Deluxe is just so sweet.

a sample:

Interestingly enough, three guys pushed me towards the ES-335: Joe Walsh, The late great Will Owsley, and Warren Haynes. Walsh used it around 1975-77. You can hear it on "Turn to Stone" from the album So What?

Will Owsley used it and a Gretsch 6150 interchangeably (and hilariously) on an Amy Grant live album and got some great tones.

And in the Allman Brothers, Warren reached for one of his two ES-335s whenever he needed a prettier, smoother sound than his LPs got.

Bob

 

[Wilko]

Interestingly enough, three guys pushed me towards the ES-335: Joe Walsh, The late great Will Owsley, and Warren Haynes. ...

And in the Allman Brothers, Warren reached for one of his two ES-335s whenever he needed a prettier, smoother sound than his LPs got.

Bob

He and Dickie Betts got the smoothest sounds from their red 335s!

 

[Patrick Ginnaty]

Love my 335! (My '64 came with brass saddles.)

 

[zak9990]

Looking for some advice on a Gibson ES 345.... I've been wanting to add a 345 to my collection. I have a few ES guitars....
They all have the trapeze tail pieces which I prefer... and of course the thinner nut widths etc...
So I want to change it up and get a 345 with stop tailpiece and normal early 60's (Les Paul) nut width.
I'm not really all that familiar with the newer re- issue ES stuff. To get the wide nut width on the early vintage 60's guitars is really expensive and the Canadian dollar is at an all time low! The few I've looked at all needed new frets. So I was thinking at this point get a re-issue that's a few years old in VOS finish without the 'vintage' issues.... anybody got any suggestions... I saw a 2020 ES 345 that looked nice....
much appreciated.

 

[ch willie]

Looking for some advice on a Gibson ES 345.... I've been wanting to add a 345 to my collection. I have a few ES guitars....
They all have the trapeze tail pieces which I prefer... and of course the thinner nut widths etc...
So I want to change it up and get a 345 with stop tailpiece and normal early 60's (Les Paul) nut width.
I'm not really all that familiar with the newer re- issue ES stuff. To get the wide nut width on the early vintage 60's guitars is really expensive and the Canadian dollar is at an all time low! The few I've looked at all needed new frets. So I was thinking at this point get a re-issue that's a few years old in VOS finish without the 'vintage' issues.... anybody got any suggestions... I saw a 2020 ES 345 that looked nice....
much appreciated.

You would probably get more responses if you started a new threat about this, and you'll probably get some good information that way. Cheers.

 

[Bob Womack]

The early 2000s ES-335s with the slim taper necks had nice, wide fingerboards and jumbo frets. Lovely, Just Lovely. Mine is a 2005 DOT Reissue.

Bob

 

[zak9990]

You would probably get more responses if you started a new threat about this, and you'll probably get some good information that way. Cheers.

Thanks........ Yeah, I don't have the required points or whatever is needed to post a thread on the site yet. I also use My Les Paul Forum .

 

[LPR6]

A 335 will probably be my last guitar purchase. I'd like a blonde with a bit of burl. Mortgage first though, but that's ending soon!

Like this?

 

[renderit]

Or this ol' thang...Ren's Third Eye

R58-no neck binding. Some Bee Stings.

 

[ch willie]

I love clear finishes on 335s and all the semis and hollow bodies. Both of those are beautiful.

I've got mine sitting in my living room. And I've been playing the bejeeburz out of it. Strangely enough, playing the 335 has also increased my love for my Les Paul, with which I've had a on/off again affection for. My two other Gibsons, the Explorer and SG Special, are wonderful too. I'd say I'm a "Gibson guy," but I love my other guitars so much that although I ought to pare my collection, I can't bear to lose but one: a 1983 lefty Ibanez Artist that I've put on Reverb. It's crafted in Japan, and it's a wonderful guitar, but my Les Paul is more of the sound I like.