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Thanks for all the suggestions. Sounds like I have some online options for appraisal.

Applause ^^^^^ for the pic up there.

GASP!

An electric guitar IN CHURCH!!!!!!???????

Here’s the old Bassman beast.

Cool story and pictures. With all that history you should hang onto it and play around the campfire 🔥

This Gibson was not a closet queen. It was a players guitar. I misunderstood a point about the Bigsby bar that Higgenez can better explain. Here is the original case and a few pics of the 330. It’s missing the pic guard and an original control knob. This is how it came to my dad.


ETA

Imgur is presently over capacity. I’ll get the Gibson pics up later if the internet gods cooperate.

I was just looking into the head unit on the amp. I’m not sure where the smell comes from or what the odor is but the smell of the innards of a tube amp are almost like the smell of gun steel and oil! Man! does that smell bring back memories!

From Wkipedia:

The Gibson ES-330 is a thinline hollow-body electric guitar model produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. It was first introduced in 1959.[1]

Though similar in appearance to the popular Gibson ES-335 guitar, the ES-330 is quite different: the 330 is a fully hollow thinline guitar, not a semi-hollow guitar with a center block. Also, the 330 has two single-coil P-90 pickups, in contrast with the two humbuckers on the 335.

The 330 neck originally joined the body at the 16th fret, not the 19th, like the 335.[2] In 1967/1968, Gibson changed it to join at the 19th fret. Current Gibson reissues are known at ES-330L to denote this longer ('L') feeling neck, and reissues of pre-68 330s have the 16th fret join as they would have originally. Note that the scale length of both models (16-fret and 19-fret) is the same, the body is just different (the 16-fret model has markedly taller upper bouts and thus more hollow body area).

The guitar has been produced both as a single-pickup instrument (ES-330T) and as a dual-pickup instrument (ES-330TD). Somewhat unusually, the ES-330T had its pickup mounted halfway between the bridge and the end of the neck, not in one of the usual neck or bridge positions. It has been available in sunburst, cherry, natural, walnut, and sparkling burgundy finishes. Tailpieces used are usually trapeze or Bigsby vibrato tailpieces. Due to its lack of popularity compared to the other Gibson thinline guitars (such as the ES-335, ES-345, and ES-355), the ES-330 was discontinued by Gibson in 1972. Since then, it has been reissued a few times by the Gibson Custom Shop division.

Famous ES-330 players include Eric Church, Emily Remler, B.B. King, Slim Harpo, Grant Green, William Reid, Roky Erickson, Chris Bell, Zoot Horn Rollo, Brian Jones, Brad Simpson of The Vamps, and Elliott Smith.

It is notable that the ES-330 has a nearly identical cousin, the Epiphone Casino (Epiphone was and is a subsidiary of Gibson), which was played in particular by the Beatles’ John Lennon, George Harrison, and Paul McCartney, and The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards.

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https://imgur.com/a/53n1u41

Let’s see if I can get these to show up.

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Nice ! Looks to be in pretty good shape.
Any cracks in the neck where it joins the headstock ?
It happens to a lot of old Gibson’s.

Nice guitar, too bad about the Bigsby, I'm not a fan.

Make mine a Bigsby!

Here are pics of IHZ27's sweet 61 es-330td

Love the small headstocks!

This pic would get framed and hung on the wall.

Both guitars are art.

Thanks for posting those not sure why I’m suddenly unable to get Imgur to link up.

What model is the Gibson that you posted?

In the black and white photo my dad is playing the Airline that he traded for the 330.

No cracks. Mainly wear on the edges of the head. Typical laquer cracking and neck trim peal.

That’s the original shape save a little wear and tear. The pick guard was missing and the one control not original when he traded.

That is a '71 Les Paul Custom.

That’s sweet.

I'm quite fond of her. Paid $225 for it my sophomore year. Already had a '74 and everybody was giving me schidt for buying a second one. "Fretless Wonder" as they were called it didn't play great, but that all changed with a fret job. Plays and sounds a whole lot better than any of the Norlin era Les Pauls I've played.


Had a friend whose uncle was Raul Rekow. He had a gig down at Cal Expo so I schlepped this thing down there and had his boss sign it. Carlos told me, "that's a nice box man!" LOL





Near as I can tell it says, "To Jeff, Joy."