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Actual Weight | 8 lbs 4 oz |
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Used – Gibson Custom Shop ES-5 Switchmaster (2014)
The ES-5 combines the acclaimed features of the L-5 with the finest method of electronic guitar amplification. Three separately controlled, adjustable magnetic pickups reproduce the full, rich tones and harmonics to make the ES-5 truly ‘the instrument of a thousand voices.'” — Gibson catalog, circa 1951
The Gibson ES-5 Switchmaster was truly a guitar ahead of its time. First introduced in 1949, the ES-5 Switchmaster was the first ES guitar to be fitted with three pickups, and was initially intended solely for jazz players. It was dubbed the “supreme electronic version” of Gibson’s L-5 and offered a unique six-knob control circuitry that allowed players to manage pickup selection by adjusting the volume of each pickup, thus eliminating the pickup selector switch.
Other specifications include:
- Maple top and back
- 17-inches wide
- 21-inches long
- 3 3/8-inches deep
- Multi-ply white and black binding
- Single-ply white binding on the f-holes
- Gold hardware
- ABR-1 bridge
- Trapeze-style loop tailpiece
- Maple neck
- 20-fret rosewood fingerboard
- Pearl block inlays
- Multi-ply white and black binding
- 25.5″ Scale
- 1 11/16″ nut
- Kidney bean tuners
- ’57 Classic humbucking pickups
- Three volume and three tone pots
- Four-way pickup selector switch
- Hard Case
- 8 lbs 4 oz
- #12864001
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$5,000.00
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