Everything about this guitar is amazing: Unplugged, this guitar has depth ,tone and a nice. The guitars pick-guard was made of tortoise-shell style celluloid. Here is an all original, really clean 1961 Gibson ES-125 TCD. The headstock, like the previously mentioned guitars, was unadorned except for the Gibson logo silk-screened in gold lettering across the top. The unbound solid Honduras mahogany neck was capped with a Brazilian rosewood fretboard which was originally topped with pearloid dot markers. The pickup was now Gibson's P90 dog-eared unit with adjustable pole-pieces. The back and sides were also made of maple. ES-125TCD (D Double p90 pickups) florentine cutaway produced from 1960-1970. The body on this guitar was now 16 1/4 inches in width and came with a laminated arched maple top, which became Gibson's standard on it's electric hollow body instruments. The Gibson ES-125 is an archtop, hollow body electric guitar model that. In 1940 this changed to Gibson's first pole magnet pickup.īy 1941, the ES-100 was dropped from the line-up and replaced with the Gibson ES-125 model. Originally the pickup on this model was a blade style unit. The strings were held in place by a trapeze tail-piece. The neck was unbound and capped with a rosewood fretboard. The guitars arched top was carved and made of spruce. Within the guitars body were two sound-posts. It's body was bound on the top and bottom. These student models are a way of accessing these fabulous Gibson tones without the higher price tags of the other more desirable models, grab them before they fly away.The ES-100 was two inches shorter than the ES-150, having a body depth of a mere 14 1/4 inches. There’s jazz, blues and roots all hiding in the cherry red overcoat. Admittedly there’s an amount of wrangling required to tame the beast but even at more reasonable volumes, this guitar sings. The most famous proponent of the ES125 has to be George Thorogood and the pickups on this guitar do definitely deliver that raunchy tone. The guitar comes with its correct ‘Gator skin’ case. Inside, the electronics are all correct and both pickups are working really well with all the bite, growl and warmth you expect from vintage P-90’s. The Florentine cutaway 'enables the guitarist to play the higher frets with greater ease and speed'.
There are a few scratches here and there which isn’t surprising but all in all this is a very clean guitar. The ES-125 TC was launched in 1960 as 'a new Florentine cutaway style guitar' at a price of 189.50. The original frets and fretboard are in good shape without any extreme wear.
The faux-tortoise shell pickguard hasn’t warped. The tailpiece and rosewood bridge are in fantastic condition as are the plastics. The cherry finish on this guitar has weathered well and is still quite vivid as is the back. What you do get here is a great sounding and stylishly understated thinline electric guitar in the spirit of the classic ES-330’s and ES-225’s.
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The neck and pickguard are unbound and the headstock is the free of any unnecessary artist flourishes.
The accoutrements are basic, in fact the only real adornment is the binding around the body. As student models go, you wouldn’t mind taking delivery of anything coming out of Kalamazoo duding the 50’s or early 60s and this near MINT, 1964 ES-125 TDC certainly punches above its weight.