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1966 Gibson ES-175D

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Model: 1966 Gibson ES-175D Ready to

Pickups: Two Gibson Humbuckers 1966 Gibson full rock?
Scale: 24 3/4" line catalogue The VINTAGE
Body: Maple top back and sides guitar pictured in GUITAR
Neck: One piece mahogany, the 1966 AUCTION
rosewood fretboard. 20 frets. Width catalogue is RRAuction
at nut 1 11/16" identical to the
instrument Ready to
Hardware: Rosewood floating
pictured above. rock?
bridge, zig-zag tailpiece. Individual
VINTAGE
closed-gear Kluson 320-VP tuning
The modern cutaway design GUITAR
keys
provides easy access to the AUCTION
The guitar pictured is a typical example entire fret range. Easy to play RRAuction
of a 1966 Gibson ES-175D; it's one of and comfortable to hold, the ES- Ready to
382 Sunburst guitars produced that 175D produces a brilliant rock?
year, compared to 55 with Natural distortion-free tone VINTAGE
finish. The three tone sunburst GUITAR
amber/red/black is repeated on both AUCTION
sides of the instrument, whilst the sides are walnut brown. RRAuction
Typical 1966 features: one-piece mahogany neck, six-digit stamped serial Crestwood
number without MADE IN USA below it. Zig-zag tailpiece and crown inlay Astral II

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1966 Gibson ES-175D Electric Guitar

positioned above centre on the headstock. The controls are topped with VonUuilrika
gold bell control knobs with metal inserts.

Other features unchanged from earlier ES-175 versions: maple top, back
and sides. Bound front and back, with a bound neck and split
parallelogram inlays. Patent number (early T-top) humbucker pickups and
Kluson 320-VP machine heads.

The 1966 US price for the ES175D was $425. Rare "stell
adjustable
neck" teisco
gen gakki
hollow body

AncientSociety
first chorus
waylon

Flatwound
strings
woodsman

Fat fuzz

Florentine cutaway and scratchplate detail. The

Gibson chrome-covered humbuckers were woodsman
typically T-tops; the patent number pickup had
been phased out a year earlier, along with the small effects
nickel pickup covers. woodsman

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1966 Gibson ES-175D Electric Guitar

The bridge free-floating and consists a rosewood

base with height adjustable single-piece
rosewood saddle - much harder to intonate
precisely than the tuno-o-matic (with which it was
replaced some years later) but with a significantly
warmer tone.

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1966 Gibson ES-175D Electric Guitar

All hardware is chrome-plated - including the pickups, and zig-zag

taipiece; the control knobs are gold bell-type - two volume and two tone
controls - one for each pickup. The three-way pickup selector switch on
the top bout of the guitar body operates in typical Gibson style: up, neck
pickup only; down, bridge pickup only; middle, both pickups.

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1966 Gibson ES-175D Electric Guitar

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1966 Gibson ES-175D Electric Guitar

Headstock, truss rod cover, nut. The inlays are all

pearl, both Gibson logo and crown. The bell-style
truss rod cover is attached via two screws. It
should be noted that the crown inlay is positioned
above center - this is an earlier feature that would
soon be phased out on this model - typically
other Gibsons had already changed to a
centralised crown.

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1966 Gibson ES-175D Electric Guitar

The neck is a single piece of mahogany, finished

in Walnut brown. The six-digit serial number
resides on the reverse of the guitar headstock
(and is repeated on the label in the soundhole)
with no other markings. Machine heads at this
point are Kluson 320VP type (plastic keys).

Images courtesey of justgreatguitars.com

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Gibson ES- 2017

175D/2
Tone EXC +
Ca. 1988,
SN:
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Current GIBSON ES-175 D 1959

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1966 Gibson ES-175D Electric Guitar

1959
VOS
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