Tag: gibson es335

Co-Worker

I have a co-worker with me at my desk right now.

In other news, my stomach is in revolt at the moment. Fun. It’s a gastric bypass side effect kind of thing and it will pass, but I just gagged up some icky stuff and had a full blown case of “the foamies” (look it up). Having said that, there is no complaint here. I ate my lunch too fast and my new redesigned digestive system slapped me on the wrist for it. Post operation side effects like this are 100% worth it, I promise you. Trust me, it’s not an issue at all.

In other other news, I checked the bookfayce page of the Luthier I brought my guitar to last Saturday and earlier today he posted a bunch of pictures showing the progress he’s made. There are pictures of my beloved Gibson ES-335 Pro without any frets, pictures of it with some new frets, and a picture of the neck with a full boat’s worth of lovely, shiny new frets. It still needs a new nut and a new bridge, and he didn’t mention anything about cleaning out the electronics (which is a major bitch of a job to do on an ES-335 as you have to squeeze everything in and out through the F-hole), but the new frets are in! I don’t know if I will share any of the photos he posted. I think I did when he worked on my Les Paul Custom, but not until a few days had past. We’ll see.

Try to picture this guitar with shiny new frets:

In other other other news, I am listening to Steve Hackett’s new album, which was released today. It is called The Circus and the Nightwhale. I am listening while I work and therefore not able to give it my full attention. My initial gut reaction though is this: Steve Hackett’s guitar playing gets exponentially better with each passing day. His songwriting improves in a similar manner. His singing… yeah, he’s better than he used to be but sometimes I still wish he’d hire a full time singer for his recording line up. I’m enjoying the new album. Check it out.

Okay, that’s it for this post. Lunch break is over. My stomach is settling down. Get back to work, Red Head!

One More Serial Number Fun Post

My Gibson ES-335 Pro was the 127th guitar stamped in Kalamazoo on Wednesday December 5, 1979.

My Gibson SG Standard doesn’t follow the same serial number method as my two 70’s Gibsons.  There is much less to play with now as the first two digits are the model year (not necessarily the year the guitar was built, kinda like cars) and the remaining seven digits are just a counter for that model year.  My guitar is the 22,586th 2018 model guitar.

I never noticed it before, but there is a Made in USA stamp on my Les Paul.  My ES-335 does not have a Made in USA stamp, but it does have SECOND in it’s place.  It was a factory second, kinda like clothes were a slight defect will keep the item from passing Quality Control, but it isn’t bad enough to stop it from selling at a slight discount.  I believe my 335 is seconded because of a hole in the finish on the back of the guitar.  It’s never bothered me in the slightest.

My SG includes both a Made in USA stamp and a 2018 Model stamp.  Just in case the serial number didn’t give it away.  I bought the SG new and I have all of the case candy.  That includes a filled out QC checklist card that is dated 10/12/17… so my 2018 guitar was actually made in 2017.  It has a model number too, SGS18HC… something or other… CM1, or CH1, or something like that.  The hand writing is a little tough to make out.  They also sent a picture of my guitar sitting on the QC work bench where it was apparently plugged into a Boss tuner pedal…. I don’t like Boss pedals.  That actually makes me sad.

As for the model number, SGS is SG Standard, 18 is the model year, HC is probably hard shell case.  The rest?  I don’t know, and Google doesn’t tell me anything.

Well, that’s it for serial numbers for my electric guitars.  I suppose I could go look at my Takamine acoustic 12-string but… I don’t wanna.

Happy Friday!