The Gibson ES-335 I Always Wanted - My Review 

Buy it Shane, it's a keeper.

The riffs were excellent , the tone was fantastic -that is a beautiful guitar.

Great looking and sounding ES-335. The cherry finish is a treat to look at and the variety of great sounding tones is impressive.

The 335 has been my grail guitar for decades and I just purchased one a month ago. What an instrument! Don’t wait when you connect with an instrument.

Wow! Do not let that guitar get away or you will be thinking about it for years. Sounds amazing! I have a 2019 335 Studio from the last year of the Memphis factory before it was closed. It has 57 Classics and it is the best sounding guitar that I have.

Man those tones are insane!!! Beautiful sound and gorgeous looking guitar! 🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸

Man! Great sound , My wife just bought me the new Green 61 SG I love it . Gibsons new plekd guitars really shining lately . That’s a keeper!

You made that 335 sing and talk at the same time. I can tell you and it got along very well. It's tough when you're just trying a guitar and it speaks to you in such a manner and then having to take it back or leave it. What a wonderful instrument.

Sounds wonderful Shane. I love both the clean & the bridge overdrive sounds. Blues On....💙

I've always considered the 335 to be the Swiss Army knife of guitars. You can cover pretty much cover any genre with it.

Can tell that guitar inspires you- get it!

Sounds really good mate Christmas present to yourself for all the good demos you have brought us cheers .

That guitar suits you perfectly!!.. also thanks for the post love! 😘 hope you’re good and well buddy.

The sounds coming out of that guitar are some of the best I've heard in awhile!

In my view the best guitar on the planet. I have the IG Epiphone 58 in sunburst...couldn't afford the Gibson but I'm happy with mine.

Gibson’s quality has been really great as of late. Great vid man!

That's a keeper, Shane. 🤘🎶

I think that's a keeper. Unbelievable tones.

4:25 yes this! On a Les Paul it’s the same, both pickup position & roll back the neck a bit, lovely tone.

Sounds great Shane. I think we both need one. I also think this color sounds best. G'day Mate.

Amazing sounding tone on that guitar!

That ES335 sounds great. For the record, I own a 57/58 pristine ES335 TDN with Bigsby factory fitted. The guitar is a tobacco sunburst and is all original with a bound fret board and a short pick guard. Some say the pickguard should have been a long one, but I've had it since 1968, and to my knowledge it is the original one that was fitted. It also has round dot inlays on the fingerboard. It is still protected in its original case, which is black and grey. I bet you could make it sound great - you are such a good player. I picked up that you are in Australia. Me also, I'm in Queensland on the Sunshine coast. Cheers mate.

7:51...LOL, I know! I just got one 3 weeks ago. It is such a great guitar. I keep saying "wow" when playing it. Great demo! Agree on the neck pup but the tones are in there.

Amazing guitar and tones 👍

Pretty versatile the 335 Shane... and that's a nice one... Jazz, Rockabilly, finger picking and they handle gain (fairly well) everything but metal. I like the binding on the neck + dots...classy w/o being a blingfest!!

What a great demo. That thing sings!!!

You might have to buy that one. You sound really good on that. Your chops have improved nicely.

I have the 2023 Gibson ES-345 in 60s Cherry. I absolutely love it in every way. I’m very picky when it comes to pickups but I love the stock ones and I’m not changing a thing. What a guitar and it can do it all. The neck is fantastic to play on. For those who are still questioning one just pick one up a play it.

Nice one Shane. I had an '83 model a while back and probably shouldn't have sold it- it was great and quite versatile. A good 335 and a Telecaster are all you need.

this is my dream guitar... I gonna have it one day... thanks for share the guitar experience with blues style.

Its meant for you Shane!.. i only hear your playing on you reviews, but, to me that sounded like a sweeter, crisper version of yourself from the opening.🔥🎸🔥

guitar sounds great...... as a long time (ish) follower I also think this might be the best playing I've ever seen from you mate. killing it. Buy it :P

I would love LOVE a Gibson 335, in black or tobacco burst… one day! Cool video man, thanks & hope you’re well.

She's a keeper Shane Magnificent tones even pop Out of my phone Great playing too 👍

Tremendous sounding guitar, especially with the clean and crunch settings. If it has weak link, its the neck pickup on the high gain settins. I'd be looking for a trade on this if i were you.....

Guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet… but your kids are gonna love it!!!

GREAT 335! I think the old 1 you had came from a very LOW part of the Henry J era. Many of Gibson's instruments had quality that was all over the place! I remember that old ES Tokai of yours. That thing absolutely SCREAMED! You were playing that when I 1st met you about 12 years ago! This new 335 sounded absolutely the business, totally rocking! \m/

Wow! She’s a real beauty, and sounds fantastic in your hands, Shane. I know she’s a loaner, but we would love hearing more of this classic hollow body on your channel.

I’d love your take on the current custom shop ES models and how they stack up to this and normal USA production

Beautiful guitar with excellent sound, great color. Greetings Pavel CZ.

I'm also a fan of both pickups with neck volume down driving a cranked amp as a lead sound!

Hope you keep it Shane

As a youngster, I became fascinated with ES-style guitars after seeing BB King on TV, mostly on public television and one episode of Sanford and Son. Although I don't sound like him, he was my first musical influence. One good semi hollow-body and one good S-style will cover the bases for most guitar based music. I always preferred dot inlays and translucent cherry finish on ES shaped guitars. Sadly, I have found Gibson to be profoundly hit and miss. My semi hollow-body is a Heritage H535. It's in translucent cherry and has dots.

At the insane prices these are going for, my tokai is incredible value for what you get. From what I heard, the tokai’s tones are just as good.

Woow... the AMAZING GIBSON ES335... is the bedt Gibson Guitar I ever seen before. It deserves always a LIKE. Greetings from Guatemala.

I have one of these for a few months now. Good guitars. Almost as good as my old Heritage 535 with SD Seth Lovers.

I have a ‘Gibson 63 CS ES-335TDC and it’s the perfect Gibson. I used all Les Paul’s for years and the 335 has the sound and is light.

Congratulations on finding your 335 !

Best sounding guitar I have heard in your channel.

ES-335s seem to be some of the most hit-or-miss guitars out there. There are absolute dogs and absolute gems and everything in between. And it doesn't seem to correlate much with the price either. Just have to go out and try out as many as possible. This one sounds very clear, one of the good ones

Great video, and timely for me- I, too, recently got my hands on a guitar that defied a lot of what I thought. ( In my case, an AIO Wolf KSA 90- basically an ES-339 clone with a couple of differences)- strange how that thing makes a person "time travel", eh? What I mean is that you suddenly re-connect with feelings and values you had those 15 years ago, before you decided on a different path. But, back to this guitar- yeah, sounds like the pick ups are the "57 classic" which is a better version of the "PAF" configuration, in my opinion. A little less hot than burstbuckers on the mids, a little more hot on the high end.

I think you might want to hold on to that one!

Amazing Axe, Dude

Every time I watch you reviewing a guitar, I want to buy one ! This must stop ! Having said that, there's a used black 2023 number just come up locally . Hells bells! 😂.

That's the guitar for you Shane 👌with out a doubt.

Sounds great! A bit compressed, but that could just be RU-vid. Interesting that they’re going with a t top style pickup nowadays

When I was a little boy, every time I went for my Saturday guitar lesson there were two or three of these in red hanging on the wall. I wanted one. They're just pretty. As an adult, other guitars became more desirable. Now there are inexpensive brands available that I would choose over one of these.

Damn man, that’s the tone.

I swapped out the pickups in one of these for a customer a could months ago. He thought the T-type were too harsh, i had to agree. I replaced them with a pair of underwound PAFs, and they were perfect. I'm still amazed at how people will get rid of guitars they otherwise love because they don't like the amplified sound, like replacing pickups isn't even a consideration. And it's not just bedroom players, I've read those stories from people that should know better, like writers for guitar magazines that do gear reviews🤨. I always found the Classic 57s to be the absolute worst pickups to use in 335s, they were way too muddy. Yet Gibson constantly used them even though they had BB I & IIs on hand, which after much meet choices. I'm really surprised you find the middle pickup position to be underutilized. Every 335 player i know as well as myself tend to live in that middle position and use the volume controls to dial it in. On solid bodies i don't use it that much, but semihollow it's the place to be I don't know if it's just the perspective of the camera and watching it on a video, but the the cutaways look shallower.

Nice, really nice - If you're looking in this genre of guitar - you really have to try a Yamaha SA2200 - I look forward to your review,

This guitar sounds great and you should get it if it does not break your bank. But consider one of the main differences betwen this one and your 2007 one is: you grew as a player in the last 16 years. It?s your playing and your skills which let this guitar shine.

I played one in tobacco burst today and it was fantastic. I’m still doing the gear math to try to see if I can afford it. If I have to do the math the answers probably no lol. But it is Christmas time ;)

I have a Chibson that I picked up for less than £100 uk. The woodwork is pretty resonant and it sounds great acoustically but the pickups were rubbish and the electrics a bit pants to say the least. I installed a pair of 1990's Schaller humbuckers and some CTS pots and lemon drop caps (surplus bits from an upgrade job). It now kicks butt. I can't see me needing a "real" one. That 335 sounds really, really nice with your style of playing. Methinks it is time for you to reach out to a few companies/ builders to see what you can blag from them...

I played a lefty 335 at the Gibson garage and was blown away. If only I had an extra 4.5k 😮

I bought the same one in October and it was a bit of a lemon. Nut was cut wrong, pickup was installed on and angle and guitar buzzed due to loose frets that had to be glued.

Miss the Tokai. - The D'Angelico Excel DC is a great guitar.

Hey shane! Great playing. I know it was a while ago but how would you compare this to the Eastman T59/v? Thanks in sdvance. 👍

Mi guitarra favorita en todo el mundo... algún día con mucho esfuerzo podré tener una! En Uruguay los impuestos son criminales

It sounds good! Do you still have your Epiphone Dot 335?

Buy it! Put a Treble Bleed on the volume pot & you're Golden!

Ts a particularly good sounding 335

I am truly curious, you said this was the one you always wanted however, it’s borrowed, but I would like to ask an honest question I have seen you with a variety of semihollow as I have tried a variety myself throughout the years always impressed with your demos, so I want some real feedback, honest feedback, and I think that you based on every video I’ve ever watched, are certainly if nothing else as honest as you can be, without ever being negative Does this guitar have tuning stability? Is it better than the Yamaha essay 2200 is it better than the Eastman T 59 and I guess of course we know the heritage is the other option. I am truly not concerned with headstocks at all the design of the Gibson headstock, I don’t particularly care for that much so that’s not a sticking point for me, I do like the tea type pick ups. I think they are genuinely a very versatile pick up for this particular type guitar and certainly any of these guitars I use I would be ordering throwback Tops or lust for tone Lucille replacement pick ups on any of them even the Eastman, T486 and 484, which is the smaller body But yet they’re still including an SD 59 energize and the neck again knowing I would replace these as far as most solid construction best value for money but still best quality Gibson is known for a problem in the satin 335s. I have one it is terrible at tuning. It is a 2019 model great condition better than great because I don’t play it that frequently And I truly hate it not because it doesn’t sound good, but having to re-tune, strings, three and four, all the time is just a nightmare, especially in a jazz or blues gig. It’s not much when I’m jamming but certainly I wish there was an auto corrector for that tuning problem. I am going to be trading it and certainly because of its condition I’ll take a bath on it but I’ll still get a pretty good trade-in value and I wanted to know if I trade it in would you trade it for the Yamaha, the Eastman, which is obviously quite a bit less expensive although you can find used Yamaha at a great price or the true historical standard, where it all started which should be the heritage. I have also tried it. It comes with the same pick ups as the Eastman and otherwise, looking for the feedback man I’ve bought a lot of guitars, solid bodies I’m great with I’ve gotten rid of all of my Gibson and used Eastman replacements for the solid bodies and it has worked out fantastic people ask me about the headstock, but I truly don’t care the heritage headstock is different on my H1 50s as well but I find that they are both equally fantastic guitars Thanks for any honest feedback you can give me truly because I want to spend my money in the right place this time and not keep chasing something I get so frustrated with equipment man it’s not like I’m rolling in the money but every guitar I have has cost a great deal well over 1500 to 2 grand and I’m gonna put that kind of money and I’m I’m gonna take excellent care of them and share them and make sure that I’m getting what I pay for and I just wanna do that with the semi hollow as I have two hanging on the wall that I am semi disappointed in both our Gibsons thanks again Also, are you familiar with the 347 Gibson put out years ago and also what do you think of the semi Hollow guitars put out by Taylor mostly using this for jazz and blues. A little classic rock. Lots of jazz. Thanks. 2:58 3:02

hard to resist, lead tone is like a bell.

Hmm, I dunno. I feel that if I ever decide to buy a semihollow guitar, I think I would like to try a Gretsch first.

Well clearly i have no objections to Shane selling whatever he needs to to fund this… hope you can make it happen mate.

At that price it should be pretty good. Yeah I want one too.

Best guitar i have played

If you cut the wings off and cut the wings off a Les Paul, it's the same guitar.

How do you feel it compares with the Eastman T59/v? I have an Eastman.

I got a H B copy I’m a lefty change the magnets to Alnico 2 much better then Alnico 5 s

335s & LP Standards with P90s?..........Wow !!!...✍🏼

Marty McFly....Marty McShane!!!!

If you like a stock production model with those terrible T pickups, you should try a 64 reissue. They are NOT the same as a VOS ‘64

Graph Tech nut? Not bone?

Classic looks, great tones,a definite choice 335, actually made by Gibson? 😂 I wouldn’t fault you if you went and bought it! 😎😎🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

That guitar is particularly suited to the type of music you play. If you feel that individual guitar was a good one, then give some serious thought to letting go of some of your other guitars to get the funds to buy this one.

your playing usually does the justice as long as the guitar isn't garbage.

Can't believe I've lived to see the day you say you like an ES-335

You always just happen to post the same things im interested in at the moment

Maybe the greatest guitar ever invented.

Looks like you can’t buy one of these for less than AUS$5000. For that price, it had better be damn good.

Collings, Heritage, and to an extent Ibanez embarrassed Gibson's new management into taking the 335 back to its roots. Pre 2015-16 335's were always hit or miss (between 1965 and 1985 more than most). The new Classic 57 pickups are very good but the T-Types are surprisingly adept at broadening the 335's impact. When Murphy Lab and Gibson management focused on 1958-1963 with modern tweaks, i perked up and started looking for a replacement for a demolished 1963 335 of mine. I settled last year for a new 335 VOS burst and it didn't disappoint. With 335's, if you find one that talks to you, buy it. There's a reason it's been THE most versatile guitar in history, with only the Telecaster in close competition.

It does sound bright, perhaps too bright for me.

They sound great, but as a smaller person I find them so uncomfortable t play.

Oh H… yes! Ya’ all will never get that tone from anything else. Yea, that’s comparing apples to mangos, but…Gibson did it right nearly eighty years ago when they rolled out the best jazz, country and incontrovertibly the best blues tool of all time!!! Expensive? Yea, true that. But so are examples from Stradivarius….

Buy it. That’s your guitar.

So tasty - very nice!

Sell the Flying V and get this 335 😉

Marcus King gets every ounce out of his ES335

Buy it man. Don’t bring it back.