Description: The Explorer's radical body shape debuted in 1958 and was almost 20 years ahead of its time. Not until the late 1970s did rock and roll's most daring guitarists embrace the Explorer, and that classic 1976 styling is captured on today's X-Plorer.
Description: Originally introduced as a hollowbody doubleneck model in 1958, the EDS-1275 assumed its more familiar SG-style body shape in 1962. Always one of Gibson's more esoteric models, the 1275 got its moment in the sun when Jimmy Page began using it for live performances of the Led Zeppelin classic Stairway to Heaven. Thirty years later, Page is still the artist most closely associated with this model.
Description: The ES-335 brought hollowbody tradition and solidbody performance together in 1958, and it is still one of the all-time classic guitar designs.
Description: The ES-335 brought hollowbody tradition and solidbody performance together in 1958, and is still one of the all-time classic guitar designs. Gibson's Custom Shop offers this variation on a theme with a plain top and satin lacquer finish.
Description: The original ES-345 debuted in 1959 in response to demand for an upgrade on the revolutionary new semi-hollowbody design of the ES-335, with the Vari-tone electronics and double-parallelogram inlay. Some things never change. The demand for the ES-345 is still there... and so is the ES-345.
Description: The ES-137 Classic combines 2 classics -- the look of Gibson's single-cutaway semi-hollowbody guitars and the hot sound of a Gibson Les Paul Classic. The 490R and 498T humbucking pickups, plus trapezoid fingerboard inlays with an engraved C in the 12th-fret inlay, identify this new classic model.
Description: Gibson modernized the single-cutaway thinbody guitar in the 1990s with the addition of a solid centerblock, and the ES-137 Custom enhances the model with elegant new features, including an Ebony fingerboard, split-diamond inlays, '57 Classic humbucking pickups, 6-position Vari-tone and multi-ply top binding.
Description: The ES-175 debuted in 1949. With a comfortable body size and stylish pointed cutaway, it quickly became the most popular guitar of the jazz world.
Description: The Gibson ES335 Fat Neck puts a great new twist on the original. The Gibson Fat Neck features the chunkier neck dimensions of the 1959 ES-335, as well as the longer pickguard and slightly thinner body of the original ?59. The centerblock construction is also period-correct lightweight maple, making this guitar a true joy to play.
Description: As Larry Carlton has shown throughout his multi-faceted career as a first-call session guitarist and a successful recording artist, the ES-335 is the perfect guitar for any musical setting. The Larry Carlton signature model features all the personal specs of the man known as Mr. ES-335, from the custom neck profile to the Carlton Burst finish
