2018 Gibson ES-275, Black

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A superb 2018 Gibson ES-275 Custom, finished in Ebony with gold hardware and presented in very clean condition. The ES-275 was one of the more interesting designs to come out of Gibson Memphis in its later years. Taking plenty of visual cues from Gibson’s traditional jazz boxes, particularly the L-5, it scaled the idea down into a compact 15" fully hollow body with a Venetian cutaway and 24.75" scale. The result is a guitar with proper archtop character that feels considerably easier to manage than a full-sized jazz box. This example certainly looks the part. The Ebony finish is paired with multi-ply binding, gold hardware, full block fingerboard inlays, bound tortoiseshell pickguard and the split-diamond headstock inlay, giving it a suitably high-end Gibson appearance. Construction comprises a 3-ply figured maple/poplar/maple body with no centre block, supported by quarter-sawn Adirondack spruce bracing. The neck is quarter-sawn mahogany with a rounded C profile, 22 frets and a 12" radius fingerboard. Gibson specified a bone nut and 24.75" scale for the model. The neck on this example measures 42.7mm at the nut, with a depth of 22.7mm at the 1st fret and 23.7mm at the 12th. It’s a comfortable, fairly even profile and suits the guitar particularly well. Hardware includes gold plated Grover Milk Bottle Rotomatics, the three-bar archtop tailpiece and an ABR-1 with titanium saddles mounted on a rosewood floating base. Everything is finished in gold, which always works particularly well against the black finish. The factory 2018 spec uses Gibson MHS Rhythm and Lead humbuckers with hand-wired MTC Premiere electronics, matched 550k pots and Orange Drop capacitors. On this guitar the pickups measure 7.42k at the neck and 7.89k at the bridge, a nicely balanced set. Tonally it sits between a traditional jazz guitar and something more versatile. There’s plenty of hollowbody warmth and air, but the relatively compact dimensions and humbuckers keep things articulate and