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Gibson ES 355 Guitar Review

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The Gibson ES 355 is an electric heavyweight for the serious guitarist who's interested in the best. This is a great sounding guitar with incredibly rich features. It will sound superb played through a wide variety of amps, both clean or with effects.

Its ebony fretboard makes for easy playing with a light touch and a fast neck that makes string bending a breeze.

This instrument will ideally serve as a first choice guitar for gigs since it inspires confidence and is durable and reliable. It has an immaculate, rich antique ebony finish (an antique red is also available) with gold hardware that overall makes for a flawless look and feel.

For those that can afford instruments in this price range, this guitar will be one amazing investment.

Here's a video of Gregory Hilden from GregsGuitars playing a 1959 version of this guitar and experimenting with the different effects options. This video gives you a great idea of the wide variety of sounds locked up in this baby:

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Gibson Custom ES-355 Electric Guitar with Bigsby Antique Ebony

Gibson Custom ES-355 Electric Guitar with Bigsby Antique Ebony

The ES-355 Limited Run electric guitar makes one of the great Gibson classics of the late '50s available again as a beautifully crafted and finished Custom Shop masterpiece. This one sports the classic Bigsby vibrato. Includes black levant hardshell case.The Gibson ES-335 brought hollowbody tradition and solidbody performance together in 1958, and it is still one of the all-time classic guitar designs. It's among the most versatile guitars you can own. Classic semi-hollowbody design and dual '57 Classic Gibson humbuckers combine to produce everything from full-bodied growls to singing sustain. The ES-335 also features a thin-tapered 1960s neck and rosewood fingerboard (24-3/4" scale), body/neck binding, nickel-plated hardware with Grover kidney tuners, Tune-O-Matic bridge with stopbar tailpiece, separate volume and tone controls, and a 3-way switch.Check the drop-down menu to the right to select colors and/or other options.