Gibson ES-125TC Thinline Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1963)
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Gibson ES-125TC Model Thinline Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1963), made in Kalamazoo, Michigan, serial # 149343, cherry sunburst top, cherry stained back and sides finish, laminated maple body, mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard, black hard shell case.
This is a good player's example of an early 1960s ES-125TC, one of Gibson's less flashy 1960s archtop guitars. There is an completely solid old heel repair but apart from that the guitar is relatively clean overall. All the hardware is original, and it is still an attractive and fine playing guitar with that great early-60s feel. This instrument dates to 1963, with an early 6-digit serial number impressed on the back of the headstock.
The ES-125TC offers the classic Gibson single P-90 sonic experience on a fully hollow, single-cutaway thinline F-hole body. It is similar to the 1950s ES-225TD but with a more conventional pickup position closer to the fingerboard and standard adjustable rosewood bridge/trapeze tailpiece layout. This model was cataloged as a low/midline electric and sold well for much of the 1960s with 572 shipped out of Kalamazoo in 1963. It is a slim and handy hollowbody electric guitar with a then-new brighter cherry-yellow sunburst finish top on the cherry finished laminated maple body .
The layout and hardware are typical for the period including the black plastic covered P-90 pickup, tortoise celluloid pickguard, gold capped knobs, nickel plated hardware and Kluson Deluxe tuners. This 125 has a fairly slim round-backed neck profile, not as flat as was typical of 1960-61, but less chunky than earlier 1950s necks. This is a very good player, not a super versatile guitar but a nice roots-oriented machine for a variety of styles.
Overall length is 40 3/4 in. (103.5 cm.), 16 in. (40.6 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 24 3/4 in. (629 mm.). Width of nut is 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.).
As noted this guitar has an old heel repair, solid but visible. This may have happened during a neck set or simply by attaching the strap button to the heel with a screw, which is still there. In either case all is solid now and the guitar plays fine. This is otherwise a clean guitar overall; there are no other alterations or repairs. The cherry has not faded too much on the top sunburst and overall the finish shows only small dings, dents and scuffs; there is some light corrosion to some of the hardware. The original frets have been lightly recrowned and play well. Overall this is really nice player's example of this light and handy thinline electric, living in a later HSC. Overall Very Good + Condition.
This is a good player's example of an early 1960s ES-125TC, one of Gibson's less flashy 1960s archtop guitars. There is an completely solid old heel repair but apart from that the guitar is relatively clean overall. All the hardware is original, and it is still an attractive and fine playing guitar with that great early-60s feel. This instrument dates to 1963, with an early 6-digit serial number impressed on the back of the headstock.
The ES-125TC offers the classic Gibson single P-90 sonic experience on a fully hollow, single-cutaway thinline F-hole body. It is similar to the 1950s ES-225TD but with a more conventional pickup position closer to the fingerboard and standard adjustable rosewood bridge/trapeze tailpiece layout. This model was cataloged as a low/midline electric and sold well for much of the 1960s with 572 shipped out of Kalamazoo in 1963. It is a slim and handy hollowbody electric guitar with a then-new brighter cherry-yellow sunburst finish top on the cherry finished laminated maple body .
The layout and hardware are typical for the period including the black plastic covered P-90 pickup, tortoise celluloid pickguard, gold capped knobs, nickel plated hardware and Kluson Deluxe tuners. This 125 has a fairly slim round-backed neck profile, not as flat as was typical of 1960-61, but less chunky than earlier 1950s necks. This is a very good player, not a super versatile guitar but a nice roots-oriented machine for a variety of styles.
Overall length is 40 3/4 in. (103.5 cm.), 16 in. (40.6 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 24 3/4 in. (629 mm.). Width of nut is 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.).
As noted this guitar has an old heel repair, solid but visible. This may have happened during a neck set or simply by attaching the strap button to the heel with a screw, which is still there. In either case all is solid now and the guitar plays fine. This is otherwise a clean guitar overall; there are no other alterations or repairs. The cherry has not faded too much on the top sunburst and overall the finish shows only small dings, dents and scuffs; there is some light corrosion to some of the hardware. The original frets have been lightly recrowned and play well. Overall this is really nice player's example of this light and handy thinline electric, living in a later HSC. Overall Very Good + Condition.