- #1950 GIBSON ES 125 TC FLORENTINE VALUE SERIAL NUMBER#
- #1950 GIBSON ES 125 TC FLORENTINE VALUE FULL#
The early ES-125 was a big jazz box, not so easy to handle for. Over the course of the 70s, the Japanese output improved dramatically, and in many ways these early 70s models are a low point for the brand. The ES-125 is a timeless classic by Gibson, a modest hollow body that has existed under several forms but with one constant, which is a beautiful dark sound, rich with harmonics and overtones, that can easily be used for jazz, blues or rootsy rock. These new Epiphones were based on existing Matsumoku guitars, sharing body shapes, and hardware, but the Epiphone line was somewhat upgraded, with inlaid logos and a 2x2 peghead configuration. 1950 Gibson ES-125, comfy 16 body, classic P-90 tone, Gibsons most popular electric. The Matsumoku factory had been producing guitars for export for some time, but the 1820 bass (alongside a number of guitar models and the 5120 electric acoustic bass) were the first Epiphone models to be made there. 2004 Gibson Byrdland Florentine, rare 60s style extended cutaway. It is in very good condition for its age.
#1950 GIBSON ES 125 TC FLORENTINE VALUE SERIAL NUMBER#
Higher grade models (such as the Super 400, L-5, J-200, etc.) feature both a serial number and a F O N. Vintage early 1950's Gibson ES 125 Electric Hollow Body Guitar Cleveland, Ohio, 441, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2450 Here is an early all original 1950's Gibson ES 125 electric hollow body guitar, made in the USA. Mid-60s Gibson ES-125 TDC Iced Tea Sunburst. on Gibson’s lower grade models (like the ES-125, ES-140, J-160E, etc.) which do not feature a paper label.
The pickup was a single coil P90, with black bakelite 'dog ear' cover.īy the end of the 1960s, a decision had been made to move Epiphone guitar production from the USA (at the Kalamazoo plant where Gibson guitars were made), to Matsumoto in Japan, creating a line of guitars and basses significantly less expensive than the USA-built models (actually less than half the price). The model features two P-90 pickups and a sharp Florentine cutaway. Likewise it had a free-floating rosewood bridge, though with a simpler trapeze style tailpiece. The body profile resembled that of the ES-175: 16 1/4" x 20 1/4" with the sharp Florentine cutaway.
The ES-125TC and TDC guitars were both 1 3/4" thin, and completely hollow there was no maple center block, as was the case with some other thinlines of the time, such as the ES-335TD. The Florentine cutaway 'enables the guitarist to play the higher frets with greater ease and speed'. All instruments were built at Gibsons Kalamazoo plant, in Michigan, USA. The ES-125 TC was launched in 1960 as 'a new Florentine cutaway style guitar' at a price of 189.50.
#1950 GIBSON ES 125 TC FLORENTINE VALUE FULL#
Finally, in 1965, a cutaway was added to the full body ES-125, the ES-125C. C stands for cutaway, not Cherry which it denotes on some other Gibson instruments. Then in 1960, two single cutaway versions, with either one (the ES-125TC, as is the subject of this page) or two pickups (the ES-125TDC). Gibson first produced the ES-125 in the 1940s, but in the 1950s and 1960s it morphed into numerous variants: firstly a thinline non-cutaway version, the ES-125T in 1956 (T stands for thinline), followed by the double pickup version ES-125TD the next year (D for double pickup).
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