Gibson Thin line Guitar Models

[gggguitar]

This is my beloved ES-330L. The neck meets the body at the 19th fret instead of the 15th as with a traditional ES-330. Basically a fully hollow ES-335 with P90's.

[Doctor Jeff]

That's a 125TDC in my photo up in the corner. Long gone, I'm afraid, and stupidly so. It belonged to my brother, and he moved it on after a needed neck reset, which was expertly done, back in the day. What did we know? He bought a Gibson Marauder with the $$$$. I do remember us trying to play loud rock with it, and it would howl like an SOB, LOL! We knew little to nothing. This was in the early 70's. That guitar was beautiful and I remember going shopping with my Dad to buy it new, as a birthday gift for younger brother. We both now miss it dearly. Larger photo attached here:
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I was just looking at one on Reverb. Looks like a wonderful guitar. Too bad they don't still make them. (I guess the Epi Sorrento RI was kind of similar, right?)

[Doug B]

Gibson ES-195. Came in black or in Gertsch Orange.
It's a thinline ES-175 with a Trini headstock and a Bigsby (easy replaced with a standard tailpiece if desired). Has single coil pickups that fit in humbucker housings for dead-easy pickup swapping.
Still pretty cheap used and very much worth it.

Thanks but I'm allergic to Bigsby trems.

[pan60]

i grabed thsi some years backs

[Hammertone]

Gibson ES-195. Came in black or in Gertsch Orange. It's a thinline ES-175 with a Trini headstock and a Bigsby (easy replaced with a standard tailpiece if desired). Has single coil pickups that fit in humbucker housings for dead-easy pickup swapping. Still pretty cheap used and very much worth it.

Thanks but I'm allergic to Bigsby trems.

Yeah, it's a really tough decision. Especially the part where you sell the Bigsby B-6 for way more than the cost of the replacement trapeze tailpiece.

[medblues]

Here's some blasphemy.

If you like the feel of a thinline, is there enough tonal difference to justify the cost of using carved woods? The laminates sound good amplified in a ES-175. There are some great players who used a ES-330.

I compared the thinline semi hollow Collings SoCo LC Deluxe (laminated top) and Deluxe (carved top) and could not hear a difference. I bought the carved top one strictly for aesthetic (color) reasons.