This killer 1963 ES-335 has been collector owned since new and virtually unplayed. The only mod done to this guitar are the pickup covers have been upgraded to ThroBak lightly aged covers. She ships with all paperwork, COA and OHSC.
The fella we bought it from loved his first one he bought so much, he bought this as a spare.
MVX PAF style humbucker pickup covers are Nickel plated with the correct no copper process at the same family owned Kalamazoo plating shop that did Gibson Nickel plating all the way back to the 50's. Prep buffing and plating are both done in the Kalamazoo area with the same processes that were used with Gibson Golden era covers. Every step in manufacturing from tooling, stamping, buffing and plating was done in the USA exclusively for ThroBak.
Weight - 7lbs 14oz
From Gibson -
The original “dot neck” ES-335 had already set the guitar world alight for half a decade with its powerful blend of archtop finesse and solidbody power by the time the “block neck” came along in 1963, but the first major renovation of the design marked a major milestone in Gibson history nonetheless. Two new refinements, represented here in the Gibson Custom Shop’s 1963 ES-335 Block Reissue, took the seminal semi-hollow guitar to new heights of popularity, and sales spiked as a result. The first alteration was cosmetic: Gibson replaced the ES-335 fingerboard’s dot inlays with blocks, which both eased visibility and added an extra touch of class. The second was a change in playing feel: the guitar’s neck was given the fast, slim profile that was standard for Gibson in the ’60s, and popular with players of all genres. The result was the guitar that Eric Clapton, for one, used to power up blues-rock with the supergroup Cream, and which took the ES-335 in general to new heights of popularity.
