Gibson - ES-345TDC 1964/65 |
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| year: | 1964/1965 |
| color: | cherry, gold hardware |
| scale length: | 24.75" |
| body: | laminated maple back and sides? |
| top: | laminated maple, 2 f-holes |
| pickguard: | black |
| neck: | maple, set-in |
| fretboard: | rosewood |
| fretboard radius: | ? |
| fretboard inlays: | split parallelogram |
| frets: | 22 |
| neck width: | 1 11/16" at nut |
| neck taper: | ? |
| weight: | ? |
| pickups: | 2 humbuckers (PAFs) |
| tuners: | Kluson "single line" tulip |
| electrics: | 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way-switch, stereo, Varitone switch |
| bridge: | tune-o-matic with trapeze tailpiece |
| country: | USA |
| price: | about 17.000.- US$ (hard to say) |
| website: | www.gibson.com |
| further information: | This is an ES-345TD from 1964 to 1965. It has a ´65 serial but ´64 neck specs. Photos above by Tim, photos below by Fred. Compared to the ES-335 the ES-345 offers stereo outputs, gold hardware, split-parallelogram inlays and the varitone switch. Founded as "Gibson Mandolin - Guitar Co. Ltd." in 1902 by Orville H. Gibson in Kalamazoo/USA. At this time they mainly made archtop mandolins and guitars. Gibson had a very big success with their carved guitars and increased popularity with many well known electric guitars since the 1930s. Many of them are still produced today, like the Super 400, the L5, Byrdland and ES-175 etc. The most famous Gibson guitar was the Les Paul, one of the first solid body guitars, invented by famous guitarist Les Paul. Since then Gibson made a lot of very popular solid body electric guitars, like the SG, the Flying-V, Explorer, Firebird and many more. During the years Gibson bought a lot of guitar companies, like Epiphone (in 1957), Dobro, Kramer, Steinberger and many more... In the 1980s the production moved from Kalamazoo to Nashville, Tennessee. Gibson is still one of the biggest and most popular guitar manufacturers. All Gibson guitars are produced in the USA, the cheaper ones are made under the Epiphone-brand in Japan and later in China. There is much more to say about Gibson. You can get a lot of information via the internet and in many, many book publications. |