Gibson Custom Limited CS-336 (Candy Apple Red)

Gibson Custom Limited CS-336 (Candy Apple Red) Overview

One of the coolest looking Gibson Hollow Body Electrics we have ever seen. Designed in an amazing looking Candy Apple Red finish, diamond F-holes and topped off with a non-reverse Firebird headstock. The guitar is powered with E-Buckers, our favourite Custom underwound Custom Buckers which give it all the clarity, bite and tight low end you would ever want. The scaled down ES-335 body and comfortable slightly slimmer neck shape make this guitar one of the most fun guitars you will ever get to play.

Ever since 1958, when Gibson introduced the first semi-hollowbody electric guitar, the timeless ES-335, the company's engineers have been fine-tuning the concept of combining the classic look of a hollowbody with the performance of a solidbody. Debuting in 2001, the CS-336 is the ultimate result of that quest and it is a true Gibson Custom Shop beauty. The CS-336 delivers the classic look of the 335 with its elegantly tapered top but the Custom Shop's engineers have enhanced the CS-336's playability. Although the CS-336 has the same body lines as the ES-335, the model is scaled down to provide solidbody style comfort.

To create truly great resonating properties, the back and sides of the CS-336 are a single piece of mahogany that is shaped inside and out like a classic Gibson archtop, but with a solid center beam running the length of the body from the neck tenon to the tail block. The model's solid, two-piece maple top is also carved inside and out to the shape and thickness of ES-series archtops, but it, too, has a solid center section that matches up to the center beam of the body. And before each CS-336 leaves the Custom Shop it is checked and adjusted by one of Gibson's state-of-the-art Plek machines, ensuring the ultimate ready-to-play set-up.

The hardware is nickel, and the body's top and back have a stylish single-ply binding GÇô classic touches, although the Gibson CS-336 is sonically and ergonomically state of the art. Another factor in the CS-336's gorgeous sustain is its one-piece mahogany neck supporting a 22-fret rosewood fingerboard with pearloid dot inlays, designed to a vintage 1960 taper neck profile. Its scale length is a comfortable 24 3/4-inches with a 1 11/16th-inch wide nut. Plays and sounds as good as it looks!

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