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My guitar teacher bought a ES335TD in 1966 and I've wanted one ever since, it's just taken this long for the money and the right 335 to arrive. This model has the 390 neck and figured top (and back). The sound/tone is better than I remembered so much so that I bought to add to the collection but have decided to use it as a player. The workmanship and quality of every aspect this guitar is "top drawer". I put the pickup selector switch in the middle position turn all of the controls to 7 and I'm good to go for the whole night. This is truly a wonderful guitar!!!

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I owned an ES-335 (the deep wine color) for many years, from 1973 to about 1994. I played it on stage a lot in various bands. But I'm compelled to say I was never in love with this guitar. My chief gripe was that the neck adjustment, unlike Fender guitars, was very limited. The neck is permanently glued to the body. I also disliked the tuners which were plastic. I see that's been remedied now. I changed over to Les Paul tuners and also rid myself of the Tune-a-matic bridge which rattled all the time. In the end, I traded it off and, just in time from what I hear. The entire back came off soon after the new guy got it. This could be attributed to me possibly because I didn't take particularly great care of the guitar although I wouldn't by any means say that I abused it. I hope that Gibson has improved the new models, better tuners, better glue, etc. One more issue: my ES had Humbucking pick-ups which I generally liked but for a droning G-string. I could never tone that string down until I went to a wound G-string which I didn't much like. I probably could have gotten new pick-ups which would have fixed the problem but adjusting them never fixed the problem. I think the ES is a guitar for an old pro (which never included me). If you are shopping for a first-quality first guitar, I would steer you toward and American Telecaster, a genuine workhorse that can be adjusted in every way.

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