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135s in the 90's are righteous guitars. Versatile. More dynamic response than a solid body or a 335. Increased body depth over a 335 and extra internal volume due to having only 1 cutaway. The extra resonance due to that additional cavity size is largely obliterated by the solid block, but it does make for a subtle increase in responsiveness that suits a jazz gig. Nowhere near the dynamic range of a carved archtop, but enough to be a respectable jazz vehicle in a combo, while still handling louder blues and rockabilly settings.
A good guitar, as long as you stay before about 2003. After that, the quality completely tanked and they then came out with the embarrassing 137 toy.
BTW, my '96 135 is on offer to pay for my Slaman carved top (purchased here).
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08-24-2019 03:24 AM
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Originally Posted by benrosow
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Originally Posted by benrosow
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Originally Posted by christianm77
i like 8 strings, though.
Everything but the drum tracks on that is my .strandberg* Boden OS 8.
Which is chambered, but without F holes, btw...Last edited by dogletnoir; 08-29-2019 at 09:25 AM.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
and what looks like a Van Eps string damper. i wish we had a sound sample to go with the pic!
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Originally Posted by dogletnoir
#embracethedweeb
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Originally Posted by starjasmine
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Originally Posted by sgcim
http://www.davestryker.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/021008stryker132.jpg
Once you get past the fluff about how pretty it is cosmetically, this review basically calls out a few things like the ebony fingerboard (I'm no expert but I think the 335 could be had with ebony or rosewood) , factory coil tap on both PUPs and the fine-tuners on the bridge. Sounds like the 347 is a pretty nice axe.
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Originally Posted by dlew919
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Originally Posted by starjasmine
:-)
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To be perfectly honest I have trouble distinguishing all this 3 series guitars. If it’s got ears that’s close enough.
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Originally Posted by zcostilla
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Originally Posted by sgcim
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Originally Posted by christianm77
In my defense, a quote from the following
Then I saw what would become my main guitar, a tobacco sunburst 1980 ES-347, hanging on the wall at a guitar store in Brooklyn. I traded my ES-335 for it.”
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Originally Posted by benrosow
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Hey - you can't impose a moratorium on me from the UK.
That's guitar repression without representation!
I'll play all the Jazz I want on mickey mouse ears guitars, and if you don't like it, maybe I'll start throwing "real" archtops in the harbour - err, harbor?
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Uppity colonials
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Silly cousins!
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Originally Posted by Lobomov
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John stowell may not approve of the moratorium...
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Now y‘all made me pull out my 335 copy again, after three Telecaster years. Sings like a bird.
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Originally Posted by Average Joe
The keyboard player I played with had comp. tickets to a gig he was doing at Seventh Avenue South, the Brecker Bros. club in NYC, and he was playing the same guitar there. Probably that was the guitar that he used up till about 1988. I think he used it on the video tape of him playing with
Getz back in the 70s.
I don't think it was a 335, in fact most of the guys that got good jazz sounds out of their Gibson semi's used other models
Grant Green and Terry Smith- 330s
Dave Stryker- 347
Chuck Loeb- not a 335
This is why we're declaring a moratorium on the 335, they're no good for jazz!
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OK, I'm in. I pledge not to buy one.
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ES-335 The original Fusion Guitar! A marriage of hollow and solid body guitars.
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Originally Posted by sgcim
Elias Prinz -- young talent from Munich
Today, 10:24 PM in The Players