Often used in blues, swing and jazz contexts, George Thorogood built his sound around the tone of these guitars. The ES-125 was one of Gibson’s mid-range models, but were still high quality. These guitars are hollow with tone bar bracing, so they are very light and comfortable. Original Kluson Deluxe tuners with white plastic buttons. Contact him for the model(s) numbers for the cases that are made to fit your ES-125, then you can shop for that specific model number case with complete confidence of the proper fit and quality. Dennis Reamy is the US sales rep and distributor. Rosewood bridge and base, nickel plated trapeze tailpiece. You can buy the same cases retail without the Gibson logo printed on them. In 1956 the ES-125T thinline was released, only 16 1/4' wide with a single. The ES-125 is Gibsons most basic and least expensive student model electric thinline archtop. Individual volume and tone controls, pickup selector switch. The Pre Owned Gibson ES-125T Sunburst has a Maple Top, Mahogany Back and Sides, Mahogany Neck, Rosewood Fretboard, P-90 Dogear Pickup, Trapeze Tailpiece, Incl. Original electronics two P-90 pickups in black plastic dog-ear convers. The top is sunburst, the back and sides have cherry tint. Maple laminate single cutaway body, longitudinal tone bar bracing.Ĭherry sunburst nitrocellulose lacquer finish in very good condition. 24.75″ scale length.Ģ0 frets in good condition, no appreciable wear. Black headstock face with screened gold Gibson logo. D (Double Pickup) models included a 3 position toggle switch to select each pickup individually or both pickups simultaneously.Mahogany neck with unbound rosewood fingerboard. 022 microfarads was used for the tone circuit. Volume and tone controls were 500k Audio taper pots. This pickup is, however, not as short as those found on an ES-330TD which has the pickup mounted flush to the end of the fingerboard.Ĭoils were wound to approximately 10,000 wraps although DC resistance of these pickups can vary greatly Since the fingerboard sits flush to the body (as opposed to an ES-175) the ES-125 requires a shorter neck pickup than a typical dogear. The ES-125 also used a tapered dogear cover for their neck position pickups with a thickness of 4/16" on the treble side and 5/16" on the bass side. The model used for the ES-125 has a string spacing on the neck pickup of 1 15⁄ 16" from high E to low E. In 1950 the P90 transitioned to 6 adjustable poles between two Alnico 5 bar magnets. The original had 6 Alnico slug pole pieces. The ES-125 was equipped with one P90 pickup. One non-adjustable P-90 pickup with "dog ears".Both the thinline and the regular models would be discontinued by the 1970s. It would later add options for double P-90 pickups and a sharp cutaway, referred to as a florentine cutaway, similar to the ES-175. The second link is to a soft case, which is not what Scott wants, if I am reading his message rightly. In the mid-1950s, the ES-125T was introduced, which was an entry-level thinline archtop electric guitar based on the original ES-125. The first link above is to a hardshell case for a full-depth ES-125, which is roughly twice as thick as the model Scott owns so it wont work any better for his instrument than the standard acoustic case that he is now using. My band at the time was signed to a record deal and the label bought us flight cases in those pre 911 days when one could fly with huge boxes in the belly. The unbound rosewood fingerboard initially sported pearl trapezoid inlays later, it would have dot inlays. Flight case custom made for my Gibson ES 125 right here in New Orleans by an outfit called Big Audio Designs. When reintroduced in 1946 it had the larger 16.25" wide body that the ES-150 had. The pre-war model, discontinued in 1942, had a smaller 14.5" body. It had one P-90 single-coil pickup in the neck position, a single volume control and a single tone control. Introduced in 1941 as the successor to the ES-100, the ES-125 was an entry-level archtop electric guitar.