TK LP
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- Dec 7, 2002
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Food for thought: from what I can see, when looking at pics of late 50's ES-335s, neither the Historic '59 335 or the Memphis 335s are all that accurate. One thing I've noticed is that the f holes look to be lower down on the body on the Historics and the Memphis reissues. On the 50's models the f holes start near the neck end of the bridge pickup while on the modern models it starts closer to the bridge end of the bridge pickup (or more near the middle of the bridge pickup on some). Also, the toggle switch is in line with the stop bar on the old ones and on the new ones it's lower than the stop bar. I think that's because of the lower f holes. Don't get me wrong, I think the modern built 335s (Historic and Memphis) are fine guitars, just not all that accurate to 50's models from what I've noticed. YMMV.
Until you mentioned it, I hadn't really looked at this, but I'm noticing the same thing in these more current production guitars. The F holes and toggle switch are definately different. These are both 333's, made, I assume, in the Memphis plant. One is an 03, and the other an 04. I don't know about historic accuracy, but this may just be an anomaly in production, regardless of where or when they are built.