My Pile of Guitars & Basses

Many guitarists will be familiar with a Gibson ES-335 model, a staple semi-hollow body Gibson guitar, used by many a household name band or guitarist. Apart from the ES-335 model, many other semi hollow guitars (ES) were produced by Gibson. The ES range varied enormously in size, and functionality and also smaller and flatter versions were produced.

So here we have a Gibson Midtown, a smaller and flatter brother of the Gibson ES-335.  This is an amazing guitar, made in Gibson’s Memphis plant in 2013, as part of a Standard, and Custom line up. , The custom versions were a limited issue with cool looks and the fancy diamond style inlaid headstock, further featuring “Ebony” style resin based Richlite fret board with pearloid markings and binding around the fretboard and body. It’s a great sounding guitar too, with a set of powerful Doug Aldrich humbuckers. It plays beautifully with its slim 60’s profile neck contour Some players say the neck is a bit heavy however that is quite subjective. There are some very faint play marks just above the neck pickup from playing, but nothing serious in any way.  All in all a great guitar and electronically everything works perfectly. Guitar lives in the original hard case with furry lining.