NGD: Gibson Custom Shop 356 Vintage Burst Celebrating 3 Years Sobriety!

[StevesBoogie]

WOW just gorgeous. Loving the TV Yellow Gibby as well. Congrats on the new addition and your three year milestone! Thanks for sharing, those are really great pics

 

[Fiesta Red]

Happy New Guitar Day and congratulations on your sobriety anniversary…

And all your guitars are awesome…the Les Paul Special, the Telecaster Custom and now the 356…that’s a great Guitarsenal!

 

[pope858]

Beautiful, Congrats, all the way around!!

 

[Leofender55]

Those are fantastic guitars. I sold mine to a buddy who was in need of one for personal reasons. Congratulations on your life choices as well.

 

[Vibroluxer]

Congratulations on the 3 yrs, that's a reward in it's self and that is one heck of a guitar!

 

[Jay Jernigan]

Congratulations (on various levels). In my book, the CS 336 and the CS 356 are, arguably, the best all around Gibson guitars made.
No, I don't own one.

 

[coolrene]

Just reached 3 years of sobriety on January 4, 2023 and decided to treat myself to a nice Gibson after having been buying too many Teles over the last couple of years (Yeah, I still want more Teles though!). Picked up this lovely CS-356 from the friendly folks over at Dave's Guitar Shop in beautiful Wisconsin. This little cousin of the 335 packs a mean punch at just 7.3 Lbs (check the size comparison photo next to my Les Paul Special and one of my Teles!). Classic '57 pickups absolutely roars and cleans up quite nicely, too. Beautiful flame top. It's good to treat yourself every now and then. Life is short. Indulge. Just go for it.

• Body Finish: Vintage Sunburst, Gloss nitrocellulose lacquer
• Top Wood: Figured Maple
• Body Wood: Chambered Mahogany
• Binding: Multi-Ply Cream top, back and headstock; Single-Ply Cream Neck
• Neck Wood: Mahogany
• Neck Carve: Medium C
• Fingerboard Radius: 12” radius
• Fingerboard Wood: Ebony
• Fret Wire: Medium Jumbo
• Inlays: Mother of Pearl Block
• Pickguard: Bound Tortoise
• Scale: 24.75″
• Nut Width: 1.687″
• Nut Material: Corian
• Joint: Hide Glue fit
• Pickups: Gibson ’57 Classic bridge & neck
• 3-way toggle switch
• Control Knobs: Black Top Hat
• Controls: 2 Voume/2 Tone
• Hardware: Gold
• ABR-1 tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece
• Weight: 7.3 Lbs
• Tuners: Grover Kidney

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Very nice selection !!

 

[WingedWords]

A very nice guitar well earned.

 

[greenhornet]

Truly gorgeous! Congratulations all around!

 

[TeleRooo]

Congrats on Both your Sobriety and your new celebratory acquisition.
Music and playing your guitar is the ONLY Real drug anyone needs. It's what really gives you a great high.

 

[xland]

Wow, that is a beautiful guitar!! Congratulations on your new guitar and a bigger congratulations on your 3 year milestone!!

 

[Johni Jupiter]

Just reached 3 years of sobriety on January 4, 2023 and decided to treat myself to a nice Gibson after having been buying too many Teles over the last couple of years (Yeah, I still want more Teles though!). Picked up this lovely CS-356 from the friendly folks over at Dave's Guitar Shop in beautiful Wisconsin. This little cousin of the 335 packs a mean punch at just 7.3 Lbs (check the size comparison photo next to my Les Paul Special and one of my Teles!). Classic '57 pickups absolutely roars and cleans up quite nicely, too. Beautiful flame top. It's good to treat yourself every now and then. Life is short. Indulge. Just go for it.

• Body Finish: Vintage Sunburst, Gloss nitrocellulose lacquer
• Top Wood: Figured Maple
• Body Wood: Chambered Mahogany
• Binding: Multi-Ply Cream top, back and headstock; Single-Ply Cream Neck
• Neck Wood: Mahogany
• Neck Carve: Medium C
• Fingerboard Radius: 12” radius
• Fingerboard Wood: Ebony
• Fret Wire: Medium Jumbo
• Inlays: Mother of Pearl Block
• Pickguard: Bound Tortoise
• Scale: 24.75″
• Nut Width: 1.687″
• Nut Material: Corian
• Joint: Hide Glue fit
• Pickups: Gibson ’57 Classic bridge & neck
• 3-way toggle switch
• Control Knobs: Black Top Hat
• Controls: 2 Voume/2 Tone
• Hardware: Gold
• ABR-1 tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece
• Weight: 7.3 Lbs
• Tuners: Grover Kidney

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Sobriety looks really good on you!
I took the pledge a few years ago, one of the best things I ever did.
Really well done pal.

 

[Tricone]

Congratulations sir. Keep on keeping on.

 

[arlum]

Congratulations. That's a beautiful CS356 and the 2nd CS356 posted was also a beauty. I've got my 2007 CS336 and love it to death. Something very cool to me is the way they hang so perfectly on a strap. Solid body Les Pauls do it and full size ES335s do it but I was really surprised Gibson was able to greatly reduce the ES-335 semi-hollow body size to the CS-336 / 356 body size without causing any neck drop issues. My guess is the switch from the ES-335's laminates to the CS-336's hardwoods.

 

[kneedtospeed]

HNGD!
However, I didn’t have you figured as a quitter
Good Luck with both

 

[guitarhawg]

That's a beautiful guitar! Enjoy it...

And congratulations on your milestone.

 

[Double Stop]

Congrats on Both your Sobriety and your new celebratory acquisition.
Music and playing your guitar is the ONLY Real drug anyone needs. It's what really gives you a great high.

Words to live by, indeed. So true. Thank you!

 

[Recce]

Very nice

 

[stratoman1]

That's a gorgeous guitar. Congrats on the sobriety, that's the big thing. I did that 23 years ago. It's the best thing you'll ever do for yourself

 

[Zepfan]

Congrats on both.