Gibson ES330 Antique Natural

The Gibson ES330 has earned a reputation for its distinctive sound, comfortable playability and classic aesthetic, making it a favourite among musicians looking for a versatile, vintage-inspired ES-style electric guitar.

A close relative of the Epiphone Casino, the ES330 has a similar lightweight, fully hollow thinline body of 3-ply maple/poplar/ maple. It has superior resonance and warm tone due to its hollow body, trapeze tailpiece and deep-set neck that creates an optimal bridge location.

The mahogany neck has a comfortable round ‘C’ profile and features a rosewood fingerboard with acrylic small block inlays and 22 medium jumbo frets. The 12’ fretboard radius is equally comfortable whether you're playing clean and jangly chords at the first fret or scorching lead lines with heavy string bends high up. The trapeze tailpiece adds to the ES330's visual and sonic appeal, while the fully adjustable ABR-1 bridge ensures spot-on intonation. The Vintage Deluxe tuners feature white knobs for even more visual flair and, together with the Graph Tech nut, help keep this thinline hollowbody firmly in tune.

The ES330 is powered by a pair of Dogear P90 pickups hand-connected to 500k potentiometers and Orange Drop capacitors for bright and clear clean tones and wonderfully dirty, screeching tones when you overdrive. Feedback? Sure, any fully hollow guitar can be prone to feedback and probably isn't the first choice for situations with ultra-high gain and volume, but the ES330 is surprisingly easy to control when you apply some gain, and with some judicious palm and fret hand muting, it sings and sustains in a unique and musical way that most other guitars can't match. For blues, Americana, 60s pop, country, jazz, rock and more, the ES330 is a great choice.

The ES330 is not only a great-sounding electric guitar for use on stages and in studios, but is also equally enjoyable as an instrument for songwriting and is considered by many to be the ideal ‘bench guitar’ because you can enjoy it just as much when playing it unplugged and acoustically. Gibson is proud to bring the ES330 back to their catalogue so that players have another chance to discover the magic of this distinctive-sounding, vintage-inspired classic!