Gibson Custom Shop ES-137 Custom
GAK price:
£2099.00
RRP:
£2568.00
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Gibson Custom Shop ES-137 Custom
Based on the ES-137 Classic, the Gibson ES-137 Custom Electric Guitar is the first Gibson archtop to employ a mahogany center block for reduced feedback and greater sustain. Other features are all Gibson deluxe: laminated curly maple body, binding on top and bottom, bound fingerboard, bound peghead, ebony fingerboard, split-diamond overlay headstock, pearloid split-diamond fingerboard inlays.
Electronics wise the ES-137 Custom features a 6-way Varitone switch filters tone from fat to thin and '57 Classic pickups (the original Gibson humbuckers from 1957). The magnets and 42-gauge enamel-coated wire are from the original suppliers and the pickups are built by Gibson on the original machinery.
Gibson Custom Shop ES-137 Custom Features:
- BODY
- Size: 16" wide x 20" long x 2.25" thick
- Top Species: Curly Maple/Poplar/Maple laminate
- Back Species: Curly Maple/Poplar/Maple laminate
- Rim Species: Curly Maple/Poplar/Maple laminate
- Center Block Species: 1-piece Mahogany
- Binding: Multi-ply top single-ply back
- NECK
- Species: Three piece Maple
- Profile: 1959 rounded Les Paul profile
- Peghead Pitch: 14°
- Thickness at 1st fret: 0.818"
- Thickness at 12th fret: 0.963"
- Heel Length: 0.625"
- Neck Joint Location: 16th fret
- Headstock Inlay: Pearl Split Diamond
- Headstock Binding: Multi-ply
- FINGERBOARD
- Species: Ebony
- Scale length: 24 3/4"
- Total Length: 18"
- Nut Width: 1 11/16"
- Width at 12th fret: 2.062"
- Frets: 22
- Inlays: Split diamond
- Binding: Single-ply
- HARDWARE
- Plating Finish: Chrome or Gold
- Bridge: Tune-o-matic
- Tailpiece: Stopbar
- Knobs: Black Speed
- Tuners: Grover keystone
- ELECTRONICS
- Pickups: Two '57 classics humbuckers
- Controls: Two volume, two tone, three-way switch, 6 position varitone
- CASE
- Exterior: Black smooth levant hardshell
- Interior: Charcoal Plush
- Silkscreen: Silver 'Gibson' logo
- STRINGS
- Brite Wires .010-.046
