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This Gibson ES125TDC is sold with a later Gibson hard shell case. The fully hollow body is quite light and is surprisingly loud acoustically. GIBSON ES-125-TC Guitar Guard Bracket Description. Product Attributes: brandgibson, sku2478776942855272, mpnes-125-tc, typesguitar guard bracket. Gibsons of this era have somewhat narrower fingerboards, particularly compared to current models. Gibson Es-125-tc Guitar Tortoise Guard Bracket Screws. They are easy to spot the ES-125TC and TDC are the only guitars in. Thinline ES-125s were available from 1960-1970 this is a fairly early one. All ES-125TCs were produced at the Gibson plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. This 1969 Gibson ES125TDC is in good playing condition, and has a great feel and sound. This 1962 ES-125 TC is one of 655 made in that year.
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It has great versatility and works well in almost any style of traditional guitar playing, from Blues and Rock through to Jazz and Swing styles. Many non-professional Jazz and Blues players have used the various ES-125 models, and some professionals – George Thorogood, for example, is closely associated with the Gibson ES125TDC. JGG have long been fans of the ES-125 and it remains one of our most popular models of Gibson guitar. For 1961, the cutaway was added and the model was available as the single pickup TC or the double pickup TDC, sometimes called the TCD with the same meaning. By 1956, the ES125T Thinline model appeared, still in non-cutaway form. ' Everything checks out to be original with the. ES125 TC single PU model discontinued in 1970. Cherry sunburst finish introduced in 1961. ' 16 1/4 wide, single P90 PU, single bound top and back, unbound fingerboard, decal logo, sunburst finish.
GIBSON ES 125 TC FULL
Gibson introduced the ES-125 during 1941 as an entry level, non-cutaway, full body archtop with one or two P-90 pickups. Heres a circa 1962 Gibson ES-125TC hollow body electric guitar made in USA, for sale together with a non-original hard shell case as shown. The nitrocellulose lacquer finish is original and in good shape, with lots of natural lacquer checking but minimal wear otherwise. The Florentine cutaway 'enables the guitarist to play the higher frets with greater ease and speed'. An ABR style ‘Tune-O-Matic’ bridge and a pearlescent white pickguard have also been added. 1962 Gibson ES-125 TC The ES-125 TC was launched in 1960 as 'a new Florentine cutaway style guitar' at a price of 189.50.
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Buy in monthly payments with Affirm on orders over 50. Here, the plastic covers have been replaced with metal covers – as used on the Casino and ES-330, to increase shielding and reduce hum. Gibson ES-125, Early 1950’s (Madison 60) Call or Email for availability. Having said this, there are a lot worse guitars out there, and as well as being historically important, the 1820 bass can certainly provide the goods when required.Here’s an always-fun guitar – a Gibson ES125TDC thinline cutaway archtop electric guitar with a pair of P-90’s and several upgrades!Īs stock, the Gibson ES125TDC – ES stands for Electric Spanish (as opposed to Hawaiian) and the TDC initials expand to Thinline, Double Pickup and with a Cutaway has a pair of P-90 pickups with black plastic ‘Dog Ear’ covers, indicating the screw tabs used to mount the cover and pickup to the guitar top. Over the course of the 70s, the Japanese output improved dramatically, and in many ways these early 70s models are a low point for the brand. These new Epiphones were based on existing Matsumoku guitars, sharing body shapes, and hardware, but the Epiphone line was somewhat upgraded, with inlaid logos and a 2x2 peghead configuration. The Matsumoku factory had been producing guitars for export for some time, but the 1820 bass (alongside a number of guitar models and the 5120 electric acoustic bass) were the first Epiphone models to be made there. By the end of the 1960s, a decision had been made to move Epiphone guitar production from the USA (at the Kalamazoo plant where Gibson guitars were made), to Matsumoto in Japan, creating a line of guitars and basses significantly less expensive than the USA-built models (actually less than half the price).