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Which Gibson ES?

Hi there,

this year I've been to a Kooks concert and fell in love with this beautiful guitar...I've looked everywhere but could not find it, probably someone can help me? This is the best picture I could find:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hell_city/7252120388/in/photolist-c3R1Jq-5HTmnL-c3R2fd-5HPdLv-5HTkp1-6NB1qC-5HP3BX-5HP8bH-6Nz3TZ-b7rnjk-UAwoR3-vS8yx-c3R14G-5HP6Hx-s2icM6-a5oanM-qV1Q8d-cJxcjE-UAwoM5-dhPrQg-vS8yz-5gJi95-TeXxjG-s8Xrxa-s9x1wd-6wut6i-saQAhD-4SF2Kb-q89eNf-4SBcMM-UvaBc5-bZCfVb-5HTro7-9sqpe-5HP99p-6a5ALe-qq4pRr-UMmpL7-6NDerf-5HTo4m-2PMZ9c-9sqpC-yP24LN-UAwoA3-5doyoE-roJ26M-wqYx4-5FkmVv-UQNT6r-CHKHpX

It's easily recognizable that it is an Gibson ES-, but the bigsby, parallelogram neck inlays and headstock make it very hard to find...

Thank you so much in adavance :)

There's always the possibility that its a Gibson ES-345 or something similar that he added a bigsby on. Could be modified.

split parallelogram inlays, gold hardware, stock bigsby... ES345... but don't see a varitone chickenhead and thats weird... but an ES255 should have solid blocks in ebony and double ehadstock binding and the crazy diamond inaly like all teh fancy gibson guitars

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i think its a Custom Shop reissue 335, last year gibson released a 63 335 custom shop with split inlays and it was all black with gold hard ware like this just without a bigsby which he could of put on it

could be this one cant tell in the pic if its got a worn finish or not but if it doesnt id still venture to say its a 335 from their custom shop since they are big gibson users they probably have a hook up with them

https://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/products/gibson-custom-shop-1963-es-335-reissue-lightly-aged-psl-ebony-nh-serial-cme030?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=googlepla&variant=36004625424&gclid=CjwKEAjwsqjKBRDtwOSjs6GTgmASJACRbI3fQDKR0GhVxFYO1tXWkRK-NFq940dqCaE4iWWOoJnHaBoCTlPw_wcB

there it is.... not sure how you cna have a reissue of a guitar that was neve rissued in tehfirst palce except maybe as a custom order, but whatever Memphis Gibson

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I mean i wouldnt turn it down but it would be like a fender American Vintage Reissue 52 Reissue

for the record I woulld take any ES model gibson memphis gave me.... heck, Ill take crappy ES models, love 'em

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i want a 335 in walnut but ill take any es gibson as long as its a double cut im not a fan of jazz boxes

I've been eyeing the fully hollow double cuts for awhile like the fulld epth trini or barney kessel with the horns....a s well as the full depth 335 shape one, forget the model ES it is, but those are way cool. But I have reasonable jazz skills.

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ive been wanting to play a bit of jazz just to work on playing cleaner, but im not very into jazz so my strat will have to do

jazz is like punk, you can use anything.... but its the opposite of punk in that you have to know what you're doing

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  • Gibson SG Standard
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