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!!

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