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Model number "ES-125TC" stamped in black inside bass 'f' hole.
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The serial number "201508" is stamped on the back of the headstock. Height-adjustable rosewood bridge with pre-set compensating saddle and trapeze tailpiece with raised diamond on cross-bar. Later gold plastic bell-shaped "Bell" knobs. Two controls (one volume, one tone) on lower treble bout. Single black P-90 pickup in the neck position with an output of 8.05k. Double-line closed-back Kluson Deluxe strip tuners with oval white plastic buttons. Headstock with gold silk-screened "Gibson" logo. Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 20 original medium jumbo frets and inlaid pearl dot position markers. One-piece mahogany neck with a nut width of just under 1 11/16 inches, standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches and a medium-to-thin profile. Single-bound (top and bottom) Florentine cutaway, laminated maple body.
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Having said this, there are a lot worse guitars out there, and as well as being historically important, the 1820 bass can certainly provide the goods when required.This lightweight 16-inch-wide thinline archtop guitar weighs just 4.90 lbs. Over the course of the 70s, the Japanese output improved dramatically, and in many ways these early 70s models are a low point for the brand. These new Epiphones were based on existing Matsumoku guitars, sharing body shapes, and hardware, but the Epiphone line was somewhat upgraded, with inlaid logos and a 2x2 peghead configuration. The Matsumoku factory had been producing guitars for export for some time, but the 1820 bass (alongside a number of guitar models and the 5120 electric acoustic bass) were the first Epiphone models to be made there. It's true, as players, they don't have the same fretboard range as the other ES guitars, lacking cutaways, and the PU-380 'Melody Maker' pickups were certainly less powerful than Gibson PAF humbuckers - but in terms of build, these guitars absolutely exude 60s Gibson quality.īy the end of the 1960s, a decision had been made to move Epiphone guitar production from the USA (at the Kalamazoo plant where Gibson guitars were made), to Matsumoto in Japan, creating a line of guitars and basses significantly less expensive than the USA-built models (actually less than half the price). Gibson may well have added fancy inlays to it's more expensive guitars, but the humble ES-120T still got the fine body and neck woods, superbly assembled and finished in nitrocellulose. They were entry level instruments, yet certainly not built to lesser standards. The ES-120T and its very similar Epiphone equivalent the Epiphone Granada that first shipped in 1962, were really nicely made guitars. In total 8895 ES-120Ts were produced, with 1965 the peak year. It was the cheapest electric acoustic guitar available from Gibson, and was comparable in price to the solid body Melody Maker D, at $147.50. Built at Gibson's Kalamazoo plant, it was first included in the September 1961 price list, at $149.50 (US zone 1) though shipping statistics show only one instrument left the factory that year. The Gibson ES-120T (or Gibson 120T as it is sometimes known) was an entry level thinline electric acoustic available from late 1961 until 1970.