Gibson ES-775 1993

Rare upmarket archtop Gibson produced in limited numbers between 1990-1993. Essentially a laminated-wood L4, the ES-775 features a flamed maple top, back, sides and neck, ebony fretboard with cool and unique fret inlays, which are repated on the bridge.

This guitar has been played a lot, and has all the wear marks to show it, as is also evidenced in the photos. It has not been abused, but there is a lot of wear on the finish, especially on the neck. Frets are in great condition, the guitar plays as it should, it sounds fantastic, and still looks like a million of your favourite kind of money!! The knobs are not the originals, and we don’t have them. Includes original case.

One of Gibson’s rarest full depth archtops, the elusive ES-775 was introduced in 1990 as a premium version of the company’s evergreen ES-175 model. With upscale appointments including a solid ebony fingerboard and knobs, gleaming all-gold hardware, multi-bound headstock, and the split block inlays of the old Howard Roberts, the ES-775 was a showpiece model, but also exhibited some significant structural changes over it’s workhorse cousin.

The neck pickup was moved to the end of the fingerboard for a mellower tone (in contrast to the 24th fret placement on the 175) and the cutaway was appreciably deepened, for improved access to the upper fingerboard.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Single-cut hollowbody
• Laminated flame maple body
• 3-piece maple beck
• Ebony fingerboard
• Mother of pearl “notched block” fingerboard inlays
• Ornate mother of pearl headstock inlay
• 24.75 Scale
• 20 frets
• 2 Gibson humbuckers, 490 R/490 T
• Tune-o-matic bridge
• Gold hardware
• 3-Way selector switch