Gibson ES-325

Very good condition Gibson ES-325

TheGibson ES-325is a thinline hollowbodyelectric guitarmodel produced by theGibson Guitar Corporationfrom 1972 to 1979.

Although similar in appearance to the popularGibson ES-335semi-hollow guitar, the ES-325 was a significantly different guitar in construction and sound. Whereas the ES-335 was a semi-hollow guitar (having a hollow body with a solid block of maple running through the center) with standard humbucking pickups, the ES-325 was fully hollow, featured Gibson mini-humbucking pickups, had only one f-hole, and had a half-moon shaped plastic control plate supporting the electronics (input jack, volume and tone controls, and pickup selector switch), although a small number of models had two f-holes and lacked the control plate. The 325’s mini-humbucking pickups had non-adjustable poles, and were similar to those used on theGibson Firebird. The instrument is also known for its slim neck profile.

The guitar was introduced in 1972 and was available in walnut and cherry (later changed to “cherry wine”) finishes. TrapezeTailpieceswere standard, as on other fully hollow Gibsons. Due to its lack of popularity compared to the other Gibson thinline guitars (such as the ES-335,ES-345, andES-355), the ES-325 was discontinued by Gibson in 1979.[1]