ES-335 Club!

Did a search 4 ways to Sunday, no ES-335 Club. The guitar that most complements a Telecaster, was the root of so much roots rock, blues and funk? No love for the ES-335? What am I missing here?
I love my Tele, but come on guys!

my recent-build satin-finish 335 that i love dearly!

http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt262/eljayski/ldawg1.jpg

Telepathy... that's just what I was thinking. Well, that and the 339 (which I'm hoping to bag this week).

On another thread one of the guys said the 339 is a 'perfect compliment to the Tele'... ditto the 335. Come on guys and let's have some pics.



PS. Do I have to start a separate ES-339 Club?

PS. Do I have to start a separate ES-339 Club?

yes! more fun stuff to browse! i might even start a cs-336 club! :razz:

bad photo, great guitar:

http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt262/eljayski/DSC03438.jpg

Got to get the numbers up here! :smile:

Here's mine!

http://inlinethumb08.webshots.com/41159/2663387290062929858S600x600Q85.jpg (http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2663387290062929858uWYsyj)

I love my made in korea 99 cherry epi 335. I still want a gibson though.

1966 ES-335 purchased from a friend in 1968 together with a '66 Deluxe Reverb, paid $200 for both. Now THAT was a score. Too bad I was so young and dumb I don't even remember what happened to the amp. At least I still have the guitar, and B.B. signed it for me ~

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w49/otaypanky/DSCF0227-2.jpg

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w49/otaypanky/DSCF0228_2-2.jpg

Alright, I couldn't stand that there was no ES 335 club! I love my Tele, but my Tele and an ES 335 is THE two guitar set-up of all time, imho. Let's get this rolling guys and show off your eye candy! I'm in the process of buying my first ES-335 so no pics yet.

I owned a 339 and frankly, as nice as it was it just didn't have the tone I had in my head for the blues and classic rock I'm after on a 335 (Alvin Lee, Clapton, Moore, etc.).

LONG LIVE the Gibson ES 335!!!

you started a 335 thread on 9-13; why did you do another one?

On the 13th I thought I was just asking a question, yesterday the club was started officially.

I just came here wondering why there was no 335 Club then I saw this thread.
Here's my babies;

'99 USA 335;

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y87/bluesjuke/DSC_0037-2.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y87/bluesjuke/DSC_0039.jpg


'03 '59 Historic;

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y87/bluesjuke/DSC_0029.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y87/bluesjuke/DSC_0025.jpg

While the TDPRI 335 Club must have more members and if it helps the squad numbers for the team can a USA Epiphone Riviera be considered for a place on the substitutes bench....it is a 1993 Gibson Custom Historic and one of 250 made....Cherry red with mini-humbuckers and frequensator....superb instrument.
While the Epiphone Riviera is of the same family as the Gibson 335 also for consideration is a not to distant relation and offspring a Corona made sunburst
Guild Starfire 4 .....a great guitar and excellent alternative with that 335 DNA.

After a couple of years looking for just the right ES 335, I will be bringing home a Larry Carlton signature in a couple or three weeks. I have heard rave reviews from actual owners about the gorgeous finish, tone quality of craftsmanship. I'll post a pic as soon as it arrives!

bluesjuke,
Thanks for getting the ES 335 club rolling. What is the color of your first 335? The finish is just gorgeous! Looks a mile deep!

Agree that '99 USA 335 colour and finish is mighty fine....by what name have Gibson called this magic?

bluesjuke, that '99 USA 335 is without a doubt one of the prettiest guitars I've ever seen! Tell us more about it! BTW, the Historic looks great too!

I've got a cherry red '03 335. Really love it, but this current band is built around twang...so it's the beat up Tele for just about everything.

Martin
E. Christina Herr & Wild Frontier (http://echristinaherr.com)

I have a cherry red Ibanez Art Core knock off of the 335, really like it a lot. Especially when I am working on a new scale with lots of stretch. The shorter scale length really helps. But I usually go back to the tele sound before the end of the practise session. I'm trying hard to relearn what I lost over 30 years of raising kids. Both guitars are great!

I've been wanting a hollow body in my collection for years but never had everyting come together 'till this week- It's not a Gibson but I'm very happy with my pawn shop found Washburn HB32DM out the door for $245 it was dirty and needed new strings but has no dings or scratches and I'm realy liking the distressed/aged copper hardware and it's warm woody tone and find it very comparable to the 335's that i've test driven-I'll have to wait a while till the honeymoon's over to be more objective but for now I'm lovin' it-Brian

Mine's an '02 in translucent red with beautifully flamed top, sides and back. In normal light, it just looks like a red finish, but when the sun or spotlight hits, the whole top just explodes. Picture to follow. I used her live for a bit, but between the Tele and my strats and the new PRS 513, she's sitting at home in her case. That guitar is all over the new album of one of my bands -we're mixing right now and I'm realizing how great the tones are...

I had a problem with the first two strings-I'm a Fender scale guy, and they were just too easy to bend, so I upped the thickness on the E and B strings-did the trick. Also wasn't crazy about the '57 Classics paired with OD/Dist pedals, that is until I got my Zendrive-now THAT is some Godlike tone! Also, it's hard to get used to the strap hanging behind the neck instead of at the upper horn...

Great axe, and she is NOT for sale!

Thanks for joining my two ES-335 threads of late (the question why there wasn't an ES-335 Club and the actual thread that started it). I really appreciate it. [Happy to help. :cool: - Mod.]

I've seen one other like this. I'll get better pictures this weekend. The switch on the lower horn there cut the pic-up coils in half and makes it single guitar like a fender! This stock from the factory. Its about a 1972 model but it plays like a dream. One really sweet guitar. Its in the background and it called wine red color. don't play it much since I love my teles.

what a great guitar! Mine is a '82, one of the early first issue Dots with the retooled "Shaw"buckers. It is in a rarely seen Wine Red finish for that year.


http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-11/71084/ES-335_sm.jpg

Technically not a 335, this is a 1968 Trini Lopez Standard.

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o67/echorrigan/Trini.jpg

I've got a '73 in cherry sunburst; a rare color. I've posted pics of it before.

I do love these beasts as well... :lol: ...this is mine...

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/111/l_61bd8aed9d0244dbb3b1d354d7280d1d.jpg

PIT... :wink:

Can 355 guys join....?

Thanks,

Keith and Chuck:lol:

The color is called Tranluscent Brown by Gibson.
It was first released in '99 and I think made for a year and a half or two years.

I have seen a couple others but they are not all that common.
It is hard to put down.
The tuners BTW are Schaller crank tuners.
They are nice in that they can be tightened up every couple of years and hold tuning well.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y87/bluesjuke/DSC_0039.jpg

1968 ES 335, an amazing guitar - One of my best:

http://www.andylackow.com/photos/IMG_2268_re.jpg

Gorgeous!

BTW, Little Milton played a 335 just like my brown one posted above for the last 5 or 6 years he was with us.

Here's a good video of him with it and you can hear the sweet sound of it singing;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Ka7TBbakY

I hate to say it, but my Edwards ES-335 is shouldering the tele off pole position of my blues gigs :shock:

Recently did a show through a Weber 5E5A knockoff, and it *killed*, even on the albert collins tunes.

Neck PU Lollar Low Wind Imperial, Antiquity neck model in the bridge position, with magnet flipped for out-of-phase (pic taken with stock duncans)

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v200/6/77/586144146/n586144146_416252_8987.jpg

bluesjuke - 30 secs into that video I *immediately* went to kickyoutube to download it. Do you know where the footage is from? If its on DVD I must have!!

I don't know but if you sned a message to Donimarte who posted it he can probably tell us.

Edit; I actually just posted on the and asked we'll see if we find out.

BTW, I too play my 335's through a 5E5A mostly and it does kill.
Albert Collins tones come alot from yourself though I have found playing his stuff on Teles, Strats, and 335's.
So though the equipment in condusive to that it's mostly you then.

Easy to see why it comes out easily since Albert's style gets down so deep inside of you.

Gorgeous!

Thanks, man.

:wink:

Joined today.
Purchased a new ES335 Custom Fat Neck.

I have owned many 335s over the last 30 years, however this new one may be the best new ES335 I have ever played.

Will post picks of new one soon.

The Guitar below was my last ES335. A Historic 63 Block. Sounded killer, however fit and finish left a lot to be desired.

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g7/humbuster/2006%20guitars/2006newguitars008.jpg

Here is the new kid; "Alvin"

Pic of Alvin and Woodstock resting.

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g7/humbuster/09%20Guitars/09guitars044.jpg

Howdy,

My ES-335's a blast. It's a 1980 model which sports SD '59s, instead of those awful stock Dirty Fingers. These days it's played mostly through my new Carmen Ghia; what a pair!

Eggman

ok...I'll join.

I've had a bunch over the years, but these are my 2 keepers...

...actually, I may sell the brown one in the near future, but the red one isn't going anywhere!

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k105/mark_norwine/IMG_1068.jpg

Orville by Gibson (Japan) ES335

http://thestevieboy.tripod.com/orville1.jpg

Neck is a bit thin for me, otherwise really nice guitar, USA 57 Classics are the stock pickups. It has that "funky" or "honky" or whatever you want to call it 335 tone in spades.

http://thestevieboy.tripod.com/3362.jpg

CS336

Although I dearly love all my Telecasters, I've always said that if I had to get rid of all my guitars and keep just ONE (man - I went into a cold sweat just THINKING that dreadful thought....:shock:) it would be my ES-335.

A superbly constructed workhorse - I just love LOOKING at it! Sometimes I won't play her for months, but I can guarantee that when I open up the case, she'll still be in perfect tune....

Bought brand new in 1999....

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y179/fatmanstratman/Gibson335.jpg

I just LOVE this guitar.

I also own two Epiphone Sheratons which are GREAT guitars, but they'll never be like this baby....

Well I am now the new owner of a beautiful Custom Shop Dot Fat Neck, coming this next week. Pictures to follow!

Pickalittle,

Congtrats on your new fatty.
I am on week 2 with mine and love everything about.

Without question, the best new ES335 I have ever owned/played.

Member wannabe here. The best I can offer to apply is this beauty:

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c306/Singin_Dave/JSteele335fullfront.jpg

Should have wiped it down before taking a pic!

J.Steele 335. No idea where this was made or when (guessing Japan in the late 70's or early 80s) but it is the finest copy I've ever played hands down. Seth Lovers are wonderful in 335s!

Hope you like this one. Not a Gibson..

http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/536/medium/335ish_3.jpg
http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/536/medium/335ish_2.jpg
http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/536/medium/335ish_1.jpg

My 1972 Gibson ES345 & Ibanez 1978 335 copy

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m95/1977cj5/DSCF7288.jpg

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m95/1977cj5/DSCF0956.jpg

My '73 ES-335
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/donapronobis/more335009.jpg

My '72 335 Custom. All stock and absolutely beautiful...

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u116/march68/335-1.jpg

BrithishBluesBoy, back in that era I lusted for one of those so much.
Istill would like one, and that pic makes me want to pic it up and play it all weekend long.

BritishBluesBoy, back in that era I lusted for one of those so much.
I still would like one, and that pic makes me want to pick it up and play it all weekend long.

Here's the edited version since for some reason there is no edit option to fix the atrocious spelling in the above post

Here's mine.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c300/jazz451/Guitar%20Stuff%20Album/testphoto.jpg

Here is mine ... its my baby

50th anniversay


http://imagehost.vendio.com/a/3683071/aview/cs81529_lg3.jpg


http://imagehost.vendio.com/a/3683071/aview/cs81529_lg1.jpg

OK, any excuse for showing pics!

1972 ES 335 Custom. All original, even the stop tail-piece, and it's a real beauty...

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u116/march68/335-1.jpg

You should think about changing the thread title. Somebody might get the wrong idea. Nice guitars though!

Always happy to add a pic!

http://inlinethumb62.webshots.com/42173/2433044290062929858S600x600Q85.jpg (http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2433044290062929858KDZORY)