anyone have any experience with these guitars? seems like a good thing on paper, but beyond that, who knows. nice price for $900. GAS is hitting... lol greg http://cgi.ebay.com/1998-GIBSON-ES1...ryZ38086QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Item number: 7357173187
Link doesn't work. What listing Number are you looking at. Do these have the fat 50's style necks? Look like cool guits.
dep. on the details I'd expect it to go for less than that, I think a stock 135 w/ P100s would go for a bit less, so the P90s may add a little bump to that... but since I can't see the auction, can't tell... jc
whoops, cant seem to paste the link. weird.... anyway, it is a 1998 GIBSON ES135 CHERRY P90 HOLLOW GUITAR. go to ebay, put "es135" and select musical instruments. Item number: 7357173187 greg
Captcrunch, The ES-135 came with two types of pickups -- P-100s and 57humbuckers. I'm pretty sure that the guitar in the ebay ad has the P-100s, which are stacked humbuckers, not single coils like P-90s. Most people don't like the P-100s and prefer the 57s. If the pickups really are P-90s (remotely possible), I've heard they sound fantastic in that guitar. Mine had the 57s and they work beautifully. Hope this helps.
It had the fat 50s style neck -- very comfortable for me but might be too big for some. I think they all have it.
I would ask the seller to weigh it before you bid. I've picked quite a few of these up in stores and they were ridiculously heavy. Especially for a semi hollow. Others I've picked up felt about right.
$900 is a little high for one of those in my opinion. they used to go on ebay for $600-800 pretty regularly. cool guits though.
Mine weighs 7.8 lbs., and it's a real good one. Has P100s, while I don't love them (and I'm a P90) guy, this particular guitar sounds good enough that it gets lots of compliments at gigs and sounds good to me, so I haven't yet gone into a pickup change. Duncan or Fralin P90s would be leading choices, if not Lollar. Cheers, Jon
The 3 or 4 135's (P100 models) that I've been able to get my hands on didn't have a fat 50's neck. I would call it a medium or normal les paul sized neck - something you would see on a late 70's to early/mid 80's les paul. I was kinda dissapointed. Still, they were better than the '60 wide/thin necks by far.
