Gibson ES-330 Hollowbody Electric Guitar, Antique Natural
Clocking in as one of Gibson’s standby hollowbodies, the Gibson ES-330 takes center stage in the studio, in live performance, or even in the living room as a guitar that can go just about anywhere. This guitar meets high Gibson standards for awesome tonality both acoustically and amplified to make for a charming addition to any collection. Wrapped in a radiant finish and dressed to the nines in fine hardware and electronics, this entry from the Gibson legacy is a knockout six ways from Sunday.
The ES-330 starts out and forms its basis with a double-cutaway body made from three-ply poplar and maple. This time-tested construction establishes the starting point for an impressively resonant instrument that is acoustically impressive right out of the case. Take this hollowbody for a spin with some strums and picks and hear the pristine sounds bloom with an acoustically impressive voice. Single-ply cream binding lines this guitar’s top, back, and fingerboard for some accentuation of its body shape and a highlighted color. Extending from this three-ply body is a mahogany neck formed in a Rounded “C” profile. In hand, this neck connects with an easy grip as it moves from higher to lower registers – effortlessly comfortable and playable. An Indian rosewood fingerboard aligns with the neck with twenty-two Medium Jumbo frets. Across the fingers, this board is smooth and streamlined for easy chords and articulate fretting.
For its amplified voice, this hollowbody icon comes to life with two Dogear P-90 pickups. These two P-90 beauties play with a respectable kick and can roll through classy, crystalline cleans to charming, overdriven clips when pushed properly. The electronic versatility this guitar displays at the ready is already impressive, but it only goes further and glows brighter with hand-wired 500k potentiometers and Orange Drop capacitors for a high-fidelity electric character right off the bat. Completely, this ES-330 is a marvel of sound across the entire spectrum. Acoustically or plugged in, this guitar excels.
The full experience of this ES-330 only keeps rolling through its quality hardware specifications. A Graph Tech nut lands at the end of the rosewood board to ground strings stably for sturdy intonation. Six Vintage Deluxe tuning machines appear on the headstock to assure accessibility in string changes and ensure stability in tuning. At the opposite end of the scale length, an ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge lands with a Trapeze tailpiece to tie the intonation experience together and send off this guitar in style. A Gibson hardshell case comes included with this hollowbody to travel in style and security.
As one of Gibson’s most well-loved hollowbodies, the ES-330 brings to life a different side of the Gibson electric experience for any player to get carried away with – and rightly so!
- Three-ply maple/poplar/maple double-cutaway hollowbody design
- Mahogany neck in a Rounded “C” profile
- Indian rosewood fingerboard with twenty-two Medium Jumbo frets
- Single-ply body top, back, and fingerboard binding
- Two Dogear P-90 pickups with tone and volume controls
- Hand-wired Orange Drop capacitors and 500k potentiometers
- ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge with Trapeze tailpiece
- Gibson hardshell case included
