Have you always played Teles?

Even though I’m a “jazz” player, I play a Telecaster-style guitar because I grew up playing rock and blues on Teles and Strats, and when I got into jazz I just stuck with them. I did have a Gibson ES-175 for a few years when I was studying jazz with Pat Metheny at Berklee. That was a great guitar, and everybody there was playing jazz guitars, but when I would play my rock, blues, and funk stuff, it would just start feeding back. At one point Pat heard me playing a Tele and said that it sounded great, and that I should stay with it.

Here, Wes is seen holding a 175. It is distinctive for its fret inlays and the Florentine cut of the guitar. He can also be seen holding it on the cover of his album "Movin' Wes"

Tim McIlrath uses a grey special edition Gibson ES-175 Electric Guitar exclusively in the studio, as shown in a user-uploaded photo on Tumblr.

"Later, I had to sell the Super 400 to pay a hospital bill when I had a baby, and I got an ES-175, and moved to Tucson."

Porl Thompson of The Cure used a Gibson ES-175 Electric Guitar during the band's live performances in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as seen in the YouTube video titled "Porl Thompson's Gibson 175 guitar of The Cure."

I spotted the 1959 Gibson ES-175 in this guitar collection video of Vince Gill's.

This Gibson guitar, the Es175, was the main guitar of Joe Pass. He got one for his birthday from a guy named Mike Peak in 1963, who saw Joe Pass playing jazz on a solid body (the Fender Jazzmaster).

Other jazz guitarist who played the Gibson ES175: Jim Hall, Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery (in the early days), Kenny Burrell

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According to an article on Guitarthai, in addition to his own signature ESP Eclipse lineup, Sugizo also used an ESP Horizon, Fender Jaguars, Fender Stratocasters, Fender Telecasters, Gibson ES175, a Gibson Les Paul Custom, a Richenbacker 330, and electric violins made by Kranz.

He also used Diezel VH4 head, a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier head, a Mesa Boogie 4x12 cabinet, a TC Electronic TC 2290 Rackmount Dynamic Digital Delay, Decimator ProRack G power conditioner, a script Phase 90, a Boss CE-2 Chorus pedal, a Boss OD-1 pedal, a Providence Final Booster, a Digitech Whammy II, an Eventide Pitchfactor, an Eventide TimeFactor, an Eventide ModFactor, a TC Electronic G System, a Boss PS-5 Super Shifter, a Blackstar HT-DIST Distortion pedal, and a Providence Stampede Overdrive.

Jamie Stewart used a black Gibson ES-175D during his 2017 tour.

In this video, Shakey can be seen playing a 1959 ES-175D.

"Yes, I have an old Gibson ES-175 cutaway. I went to the cutaway because I use a capo on the third and fifth frets, and I can’t get the octave unless I have a cutaway. That’s part of the reason I went to electric, as well. Partly for sustain and partly to be able to get the octave when I have a capo on."

"I used first my Martin D18 which sounded cool, and then for a double, since I just picked up a Jazz box (a 1958 Gibson ES 175), Jeremy and I thought we can just mike it and see how that sounded. We didn't need to plug this Sunburst beauty in, it sounded STELLAR just like that"