4/23/2021 0 Comments Gibson Es 175 Serial Numbers
In the vintage retail market, you should be able to get between 2250 and 2750.Part onefound in last months issue featured the Fender Princeton Reverb.Both pieces were in our offices, so I was able to inspect them personally.
Unfortunately, some of the information in this article cannot be seen in the pictures. Hey Zach, I bought this Gibson guitar and Fender amp new in the late 1970s or early 1980s and only played them a few times. A few years later, I gave the guitar and amp to my father, but he played them very little as well. My father passed away last winter and I found them when I was cleaning out his closets. I still dont play so Id like to sell them, and Im curious as to exactly what I have and how much they are worth. Can you help Jim in Forest Lake, MN Hey Jim, Its always a treat when players bring in gear to our office for evaluations, appraisals and identification, and I especially enjoy it when the instruments are this clean Let me start by telling you that aside from a good cleaning and new strings, this guitar needs nothing to become a full-time player. In 1977, Gibson finally standardized their serialization system with an eight-digit format that reads like this: YDDDYNNN. Gibson Es 175 S Serial Number On YourThe serial number on your guitar is 8150001X with SECOND stamped below it. The first and fifth digits 8, 0 indicate the last two numbers of the year your guitar was built: in this case, 1980. The second, third, and fourth digits 1,5,0 indicate the day of the year your guitar was built based on the Julian calendar the 150th day of 1980 was May 29keep in mind this was a leap year. The last three digits are the production number from that day. During this time, Gibson had two factories openthe original in Kalamazoo, Mich., and a new one in Nashville, Tenn. Production numbers started at 001 each day in Kalamazoo and 501 each day in Nashville this practice continued until 1984 when Kalamazoo closed. Visit our website guitars.bluebookinc.com for more Gibson serialization information. The SECOND stamped onto the back of your headstock underneath the serial number indicates that the guitar was shipped from the factory with some sort of finish blemish or other imperfection, and that it was sold at a discounted price with a full factory warranty. The features of your guitar include a single sharp cutaway deep hollow maple body, two f-holes, three-ply top binding, single-ply back binding, set maple neck, 20-fret bound rosewood fingerboard with split parallelogram inlays, black headstock overlay with pearl logo and crown inlay, three-per-side tuners, rosewood-based Tune-o-matic bridge, trapeze tailpiece with three raised parallelograms, multi-ply raised pickguard, two humbucker pickups, four black knobs with silver insets two volume, two tone, threeway pickup switch and chrome hardware. The guitar is 16.25 in. The ES-175 continues to be a popular guitar for Gibson, and has been in continuous production since 1949 (double pickup models first appeared in 1951). Since so many of these guitars are stamped SECOND, the designation hasnt affected the value very much. This particular guitar has a few other minor finish blemishes, but other than that this guitar is near mint.
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