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Es-335 with p90

sliding-tom

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Seems like Gibson R & D is reading the posts here - not too long ago a lot of folks wondered why there isn't a 335 with P 90s :rolleyes:
 

Kris Ford

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Well thats Gibson for ya...seems to me it's more like an ES 330...but has the center block. Probally sounds killer! IMHO it would look better in cherry.
 

J.D.

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Yeah, apparently an ES-330 with a center block = ES-335 w/ P-90s.
 

Guitar Whiskey

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The red one looks killer. I'm not sure how this would sound, but ES-330's sound great. I would think that P90's on a ES-335 will sound more like a ES-335 than an ES-330 though. This might just be absolutey the greatest. I'd be curious to hear some reports.
 

Don

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My tweed Deluxe clone needs that guitar!
 

gmann

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Yrs ago I saw the band Bluestime which is/was J. Geils and Magic Dicks blues band. Jay had a blond 335 that he put P90's in himself. Needless to say, that was one of the better 335's I've ever heard and it always made me wonder why Gibson didn't offer a 335 like that. I always thought it was so obvious.
 

J.D.

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You could always drop in the P-94 (humbucker sized P-90) into a "regular" ES-335 to get that tone.

I would agree with GuitarWhiskey, this guitar will probably not sound exactly like an ES-330.
 

's mel gibson

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The red one looks killer. I'm not sure how this would sound, but ES-330's sound great. I would think that P90's on a ES-335 will sound more like a ES-335 than an ES-330 though. This might just be absolutey the greatest. I'd be curious to hear some reports.

I'm thinking the ES 335 with P90's is going to have an early Santana tone with maybe a touch more "air".

I really wouldn't compare it to an ES 330. It's fully hollow, no center block and a shorter neck joint. Which sort of pisses me off about the ES 330. It's heel joins the body at the 16th fret which is ok for the lead box in G above the 12th fret and it's a tight box.

on the ES 335 and others, the heel joins at the 19th fret and the box in A at the 17th fret is wide open.

Check them out.

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All of them are 24 3/4" scale. But the 330 is shorter in full length because of the joint. Why?
 
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Troels

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I'm thinking the ES 335 with P90's is going to have an early Santana tone with maybe a touch more "air".

I really wouldn't compare it to an ES 330. It's fully hollow, no center block and a shorter neck joint. Which sort of pisses me off about the ES 330. It's heel joins the body at the 16th fret which is ok for the lead box in G above the 12th fret and it's a tight box.

on the ES 335 and others, the heel joins at the 19th fret and the box in A at the 17th fret is wide open.

Check them out.

CIMG0109.jpg


All of them are 24 3/4" scale. But the 330 is shorter in full length because of the joint. Why?

Perhaps to get a bit more solid joint on the hollow 330 body...
 

Zhangliqun

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I'd prefer soapbars but maybe the soapbar routs are too deep and would compromise the neck joint.
 

's mel gibson

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Soap bars are for the SG Specials with the full 'Batwing" pickgaurd. I think I prefer the dog ears and the fact that they are not height adjustable means there is nothing to go wrong, like the screw popping out and the p'up collapsing into the cavity.
 

MikeB_18

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Just when I think everything on my P-90 list is in order. This thing make me drool.

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