Description

All original and simply a joy to play, this nearly vintage Gibson ES-175 takes a lot of beating. You pick it up and immediately know you’re holding an instrument of premium quality, then you actually play it and it feels luscious, responding beautifully with those humbucking pickups and cavernous maple laminate body.

Compared side by side with a golden-era 175 from the 60s it feels a little heavier; the varnish is noticeably thicker and darker too. However, based on tone and player feel you’d be very hard pressed to tell them apart, so for the jazz or rock player looking for a good 175 this guitar represents outstanding value for money. The neck is particularly good, being 1-11/16" width and having the full depth normally associated with the early sixties.

There’s a 1” x ½” scuff mark on the back and the grain is lifting slightly in four or five places on the back. You can see this in the picture of the back which shows the reflection. It’s stable though and purely cosmetic (and on the back!) There's a "second" beneath the serial number on the back of the headstock indicating it was marked out as a factory second, although no normal person would ever be expected to even see the reason for this marking, and once out of the original showroom the "second" has no impact on the guitar or its value.

All in all, for the ludicrously low price tag we’re offering you simply can’t beat this 175 on feel, sound and features. Even the original hard case is a joy to behold with it’s deep purple plush lining, so you can transport your enviably high quality ES-175 with the style it so rightly deserves.

Gibson ES-175 D electic guitar

• 16” wide maple laminate body with florentine cutaway
• Three piece maple neck with volute
• 1-11/16" width at nut
• Rosewood fretboard with double parallelogram markers
• Gibson flower logo tuners
• Headstock with Gibson crown logo
• Chrome plated tailpiece with raised parallelograms
• Tune-O-matic bridge
• Two humbucking pickups
• Pickup selector switch
• Two volume and two tone controls with black reflector knobs
• Original hard case

175 tags

Gibson ES-175, Gibson ES 175, Gibson 175, 175, 175 D, classic jazz guitar, jazz box, jazz sound, tailpiece, Kluson, Steve Howe, Joe Pass, Florentine (pointed) cutaway, vintage Gibson