Gibson ES-350 Rare?

[Greentone]

The ES-300 is also very much a great and well made jazz guitar. I had one at the house for about six months. It was the first post-war version, with the narrower P90 pickup. Beautiful and beautiful sounding (and playing) guitar. After evaluating it for as long as I could, I passed on buying it. D'oh! In retrospect, I wish that I'd purchased it.

[Fred Archtop]

Just spotted this.....!

Gibson ES 350 1951 Gloss Tobacco Burst Tal Farlow owned and | Reverb

Hmm, personaly I don't like these dark tobacco sunbursts. Burrellesque your guitar is way smatter.

The ES-300 is also very much a great and well made jazz guitar.

Agree 100% Mr Greetone. Mine is from 1946. It's the easiest 17' I've ever tried in terms of playability. And the big 17' body gives a nice sound.

Cheers.

[Greentone]

The one I almost/should have bought was also a '46. GREAT guitar.

[Fred Archtop]

Here is the old lady



Second previous owner was by J. Geils. The p90 was missing when I made the acquisition, already replaced by a prewar EH-150 CC (J. Geils had a lot of CC equipped guitars). The sound wasn't good, way too much basses, muddy mediums and a lot of output signal, 9 k if I am correct.

I've swapped the mike with a Lollar CC. I love this guitar, the look, the sound, the playability. All.

Cheers.

[Burrellesque]

Interesting that Tal had more than one ES-350, and an early 3 knob variant at that.

[nopedals]

Gibson dropped all four full depth 17 inch laminates -- ES5, ES350, ES300, and ES150 -- around the same time. Feedback issues? I like them a lot. The big box gives them a special electric sound. They are not great sounding acoustically, but you *can* play them unplugged with another guitar player and be heard.

[Burrellesque]

She's a beauty Fred!

[telephone]

Just spotted this.....!

Gibson ES 350 1951 Gloss Tobacco Burst Tal Farlow owned and | Reverb

Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but has this same guitar been for sale for the last few years? Is there more to it than meets the eye?

[Filmosound 621]

Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but has this same guitar been for sale for the last few years?

yes, it has been at ~6000 pds. in between, IIRC.

not sure about it.

[telephone]

I have another question for those more knowledgeable regarding the first gen ES-350. I recently played a '49 350 that had a pretty sizable neck. Is that typical of most 350s from this ('47-'52) era?

[wintermoon]

I have another question for those more knowledgeable regarding the first gen ES-350. I recently played a '49 350 that had a pretty sizable neck. Is that typical of most 350s from this ('47-'52) era?

yes