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An outstanding Natural Mahogany finish tops this high energy instrument. Gibsons incredible TP-6 tailpiece insures fine-tuning capabilties with fingertip ease. The three-piece mahogany neck features a rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays and corresponding side dots. The Custom version of the 335-S utilizes the unmatched power of Gibsons 'Dirty Fingers' pickups with a coil tap switch mounted in a sculptured mahogany body. Gibsons new Autumn maple finish, available only on this model, exudes an earthiness that separates it from all other guitar finishes. A rosewood finger-board is mounted to a three-piece maple neck. Individually, the 335-S Standards contoured maple body features two high output Gibson Humbucking exposed coil pickups with one cream and one black coil. Shaped much like a diminutive ES-335, these double cutaway instruments allow players added sustain capabilities due to increased body mass and density.

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Gibsons new 335-S Series combines a familiar shape with the playability and sustain of other legendary Gibson solid bodies. On its launch in mid-1980, the solid body Gibson 335S was described as follows:

DILLION GUITARS FOR SALE 2011 PROFESSIONAL

This system was never fully adapted, but it does explain why, in the case of the 335-S, the Custom (traditionally the top of the range) is a lesser instrument to the Deluxe, and why many 335-S have the word PROFESSIONAL on the truss rod covers. So theoretically any instrument could have nine versions. Each series followed the good (Deluxe), better (Standard), best (Custom) concept. rather than just Gibson) simply to allow wider distribution, without upsetting existing dealers. There had long been a waiting list to become a Gibson dealer, and the Sonex series was to be a separately authorised line, (and branded as Gibson Guitar Co. Models were to be placed in a 'series' either Professional, Firebrand, or Sonex. Around the middle of 1980, Gibson were planning changes in their distribution, specifically with regard dealer authorisation.

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