1958 Gibson ES-175D with Epi tuners

[Easy2grasp]

I got a cool ES-175D recently. It's a 1958 with the rare factory installed deluxe Epiphone tuners that Gibson modified by turning the "E" into a "G". These only appeared on some ES-175's from 1958 as Gibson used up the Epiphone stock. My guitar has a year 1957 FON and a 1958 SN.
The Chicago Musical Instrument company (CMI), which owned Gibson, bought Epiphone in 1957. When CMI purchased Epiphone, they got all of Epiphone's current stock of parts including bodies, necks, pickups, etc. The pickups have been replaced at some point with a matched set of Peter Florance Voodoo '59 reproductions. They sound like original PAF's to my ears!

[citizenk74]

Very cool guitar! Congratulations, and play it in good health!

[Crm114]

oh heck yeah !!!!

BigMike

[garybaldy]

Nice guitar.

[Bluedawg]

Awesome!