Excellent condition featuring double cutaway laminated maple body with Vintage Burst finish, multiple bound top body edges and single bound back body edges, two unbound F holes, two Gibson Calibrated T-Type humbucking pickups with black plastic pickup surrounds, two volume controls and two tone controls with black plastic reflector top knobs, three way pickup selector switch with cream plastic switch tip, stop tailpiece and fully adjustable ABR-1 tune-o-matic bridge, elongated multi-ply black and white plastic elevated pickguard with metal mounting bracket, set mahogany neck with rounded C profile, bound rosewood fingerboard with pearloid split parallelogram inlays starting at the third fret and medium jumbo frets, Graph Tech nut, Gibson open book peghead shape, black peghead face with pearl Gibson logo and decorative crown inlays, multi-ply black and white plastic bell shaped truss rod cover, three per side individual Gibson Deluxe Kluson style tuning machines with keystone green tuning buttons, serial number and Made In USA impressed into the back of the peghead, two metal strap buttons, nickel plated metal hardware and original brown Tolex covered Gibson hard shell case with red plush interior. This guitar weighs 7lb 13oz.
This 2021 Gibson ES-345 is in near mint cosmetic condition showing no signs of play wear throughout. The frets on this instrument show no wear and have a lifetime of use left. This Gibson plays great up and down the fingerboard with low action and great intonation with no dead spots or buzzing. The pickups sound tremendous and have a very woody yet articulate tone that works perfectly for overdriven and clean sounds alike. A truly great instrument for rhythm and blues to Chet style to rock. All of the electronics are in perfect working order and this guitar was handwired with Orange Drop capacitors from the factory. If you are searching for a great playing and sounding ES-345, then this very recent Nashville built example is a very fine candidate.
