No cutaway, no fretboard inlays, fewer bindings etc. The 125 was an entry level archtop at the time but the differences with the more expensive 175 are largely cosmetic. It's very much like a 1950s P90 equipped Gibson ES 175 but at half the price. So why do I think the 125 is the best vintage Gibson buy? That's easy. I have some fine guitars but the 125 certainly holds its own In the meantime I have had my guitar tech do a complate overhaul of the guitar and I play it with great satisfaction. Still, the 1964 one certainly rings all the right bells with me and the lighter, early 1960s sunburst of the top I like definitely better than the very dark burst you see on early 1950s models. So I kind of liked it even better than the earlier 1951 model but of course a comparison only exists in my mind because I cannot play them side by side anymore. Light, responsive and IMHO even better sounding. My new 1964 ES 125 was in fact very much like the 1951 one. I had to pay 1800 bucks for it and |I knew it needed some fretwork and some other other maitenance. My daughter drove me to Amsterdam and we both felt it was the right thing to do. I gave it to my daughter who sold it later fo fund a foreign trip - and still regrets it to this very day! I always missed that guitar and to set things right I purchased a 1964 model in 2017. Unlike my other, more modern laminate guitars, you could actually play it unamped and it would still sound good. It was very light, very responsive and it sounded great. I paid about 1200 euros (2500 pre euro Dutch guilders) for it at the time and it was my first "vintage" instrument. I had seen Martijn van Iterson play one many times and his sound and playing blew me away. The first one, the 1951 model, I purchsed in 1998. So I've had two Gibson ES 125 guitars over the years. You can find the Pass etude with tabs here and the Nunes etude here. The first 2 choruses are Joe Pass, the last chorus Warren Nunes. So I did a guitar nerdy thing yesterday and I played two etudes in straight eights over the old vid with my current 125, so some 13 years later. The guitar I was playing was one I no longer have, a 1951 Gibson ES 125.
D (Double Pickup) models included a 3 position toggle switch to select each pickup individually or both pickups simultaneously.I came across and old blues comping video that I made in 2006. 022 microfarads was used for the tone circuit.
Volume and tone controls were 500k Audio taper pots. This pickup is, however, not as short as those found on an ES-330TD which has the pickup mounted flush to the end of the fingerboard.Ĭoils were wound to approximately 10,000 wraps although DC resistance of these pickups can vary greatly Since the fingerboard sits flush to the body (as opposed to an ES-175) the ES-125 requires a shorter neck pickup than a typical dogear. The ES-125 also used a tapered dogear cover for their neck position pickups with a thickness of 4/16" on the treble side and 5/16" on the bass side. The model used for the ES-125 has a string spacing on the neck pickup of 1 15⁄ 16" from high E to low E. In 1950 the P90 transitioned to 6 adjustable poles between two Alnico 5 bar magnets. The original had 6 Alnico slug pole pieces. The ES-125 was equipped with one P90 pickup.
When reintroduced in 1946 it had the larger 16.25" wide body that the ES-150 had. The pre-war model, discontinued in 1942, had a smaller 14.5" body. It had one P-90 single-coil pickup in the neck position, a single volume control and a single tone control. Introduced in 1941 as the successor to the ES-100, the ES-125 was an entry-level archtop electric guitar.
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