The necks are also worth writing home about. We’ve outfitted these semi-hollow sweeties with a ’59 neck profile that is scarily accurate, and that means something coming from me. I worked at a guitar shop in Kalamazoo, Michigan—the home of Gibson—for several years, so I’ve played plenty of ’59 335s. If you put a blindfold on me, I couldn’t tell the difference between this reissue and a real vintage neck.
For a guitar that looks and feels vintage, you need electronics. So, we asked our friends at Gibson to outfit these exceptional Electric Spanish guitars with Wildwood Spec Custombuckers, which are the product of our obsessive effort to recreate the sound of the vintage guitars we all revere. You can really hear the blood, sweat, and tears that the geniuses at the Gibson Custom Shop put into these humbuckers the instant you strike your first chord. They embody the very best characteristics of vintage underwound PAFs: fantastic string-to-string balance, crystalline clarity, and sweet, singing trebles. It’s not easy to develop a pickup that hard rock players and jazz cats alike will fall in love with, but the fine folks at Gibson have accomplished that nearly impossible feat.
Wildwood Guitars: https://wildwoodguitars.com/product/A91599/wildwood-spec-19…35-reissue-vos-9/
'The Greg' Amp: https://wildwoodguitars.com/product-category/amps/koch-amps/
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Serial Number: A91599
Specifications:
Brand Gibson Custom Shop
Model Wildwood Spec 1959 ES-335
Finish Color Viking Red
Finish Type VOS Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Weight 7.73 lbs.
Top Wood Laminate Maple
Body Wood Laminate Maple
Neck Wood Mahogany
Neck Shape 1959 C
Neck Dimensions .880 1st - .950 12th
Fingerboard Indian Rosewood
Fingerboard Radius 12"
Frets 22
Scale Length 24.75"
Width at Nut 1 11/16"
Binding Single-Ply on Top, Back, and Fingerboard
Pickups 2 Wildwood Spec Custombuckers
Controls 2 Volume, 2 Tone, 3-way Switch
Hardware Nickel
Bridge ABR-1
Tailpiece Aluminum Stopbar
Tuners Single-Band Kluson Deluxe
Case Gibson Custom Hardshell
COA Yes