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natural. One of the rarest and most
sought-after vintage guitars: the ES 5 in its
pre-switchmaster version with three P90 pickups has tied
its name to some of the greatest moments of American
Music history. It was the axe of choice of many blues
performers... Lowell Fulson, B.B. King (do you remeber
his famous '50s bermuda picture?) and most of all T-Bone
Walker.
The guitar you see here sounds terrific, from warmer jazz
to the classic P90 bite through a full steam tube amp, to
the legendary out-of-phase sound of the bridge pickup.
Typical early ES 5 circuitry, with three individual
volume controls, no pickup selector switch and a single
master tone on the cutaway bout. All the parts are
original, except for knobs (excellent reproductions):
pickups, pots, "Super Kluson" tuners with
plastic tulip buttons, pickguard, rosewood bridge, etc.
etc. The guitar is solid and beautiful, with normal
finish-checking, some gold-plating wear, and normal
playing wear on body and neck; we have tried to show in
the "wear" pictures a large area in the lower
part of the sides, next to the strap-button, where there
is a heavier checking which has caused the finish to
flake away, probably due to a long stay in a wet
environment while standing in vertical position. Very
beautiful woods, gorgeous flamed maple on top and back,
even better on sides and neck, with a nicely yellowed
patina: I hope you can see that from the pictures. Really
a killer looking, killer sounding guitar! Non-original
but excellent, very solid and properly fitting hardshell
case. Please open pictures ONE at a time.
es5n - body1 - body1a - body2 - body3 - body4 - back - back2 - bodyback - bodyback2 - neck - headstock - hardware - incase - wear1 - wear2 - wear3 - wear4 - case
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