1982 Gibson ES 347

[HNB]

Just noticed that the 335 I’ve been drooling over also has a coil cut (or an additional switch, either way)… is that normal fayre for 80s es?

That could have been added to the stock 335? As far as I know in these ES guitars, the 347 is the one with the upper horn coil split. Cool fact is it is a two way toggle. Center is normal and down is split. It doesn't toggle up. I wasn't sure until I got it if it was a normal three way toggle with just part of it wired.

[sal paradise]

Just noticed that the 335 I’ve been drooling over also has a coil cut (or an additional switch, either way)… is that normal fayre for 80s es?

That could have been added to the stock 335? As far as I know in these ES guitars, the 347 is the one with the upper horn coil split. Cool fact is it is a two way toggle. Center is normal and down is split. It doesn't toggle up. I wasn't sure until I got it if it was a normal three way toggle with just part of it wired.

Funnily enough, did some reading. Seems like trapeze & coil split are two of the (many) standard 70s features that “ruined” the 335, if you’re a certain type of fan of a certain brand of guitars.

[HNB]

That is good to know. LOL I don't mind it at all. I think options are ok. Just because it is there doesn't mean you have to use it.

[HNB]

Being sort of unusial is an attraction to me with guitars a lot of the times.

[sal paradise]

That is good to know. LOL I don't mind it at all. I think options are ok. Just because it is there doesn't mean you have to use it.

Yes. And thanks to your beaut, I want this 335 even more

[HNB]

That is good to know. LOL I don't mind it at all. I think options are ok. Just because it is there doesn't mean you have to use it.

Yes. And thanks to your beaut, I want this 335 even more

I appreciate that having at the lower horn doesn't put it in the way of being hit by accident for most. The later versions had a mini toggle by the controls and I don't like that as much visually. Those look modded whereas the full toggle ones look more professional to me.

[HNB]

Oh also I would love a black one. This one was nicer condition than the black ones I was seeing and a better price.

[Larry Mal]

I had no idea they used Dirty Fingers in this type of guitar.

I have Dirty Fingers in my Sonex, I was playing that the other day. I certainly like them pretty well.

[Embenny]

Yeah, that's wild. Dirty Fingers are the last pickups I'd expect in a ES-347. The coil split suddenly makes sense though, since half of a Dirty Fingers is more or less a strat-sized P90.

Those pickups are the hottest Gibson ever made. There are huge numbers of metal players who prefer the 496R/500T combo, which are brighter and lower output (but still very high output).

So that's definitely a unique combination of specs you've got there!

[HNB]

It is definitely noticable. I keep my amp at volumes for my humbucker guitars and this was like twice as loud. I actually turned the amp down. LOL

[øøøøøøø]

Yeah, that's wild. Dirty Fingers are the last pickups I'd expect in a ES-347.

For it to make sense, you kinda have to imagine a brief window in the late 1970s—when for about ten minutes the popular guitar heroes were Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Lee Ritenour, etc

In the era immediately after McLaughlin/DiMeola came to prominence this next wave of (primarily Los Angeles-based) players were porting some of those fusion concepts over to pop and pop-adjacent music.

The dot-neck ES-335 became one of the first sought-after “vintage guitars” in this era because it was perceived by these players to have more sustain than the then-current trapeze tail models

So a pretty natural progression was “how do we make a thinline that will sustain even more?” (an archetype was probably Larry Carlton on Steely Dan “Kid Charlemagne”, stuff like that)

I wasn’t alive then obviously, but it was definitely a moment.

The same moment arguably gave birth to the Dumble amp mythology