Gibson Custom Shop 1959 ES-345 Reissue Electric Guitar w/ Bigsby, Heavy Aged Ebony

Gibson Custom Shop 1959 ES-345 Reissue Electric Guitar w/ Bigsby, Heavy Aged EbonyA distinguished semi hollow in its time and ours, this limited edition Gibson Custom Shop 1959 ES 345 Reissue with Bigsby is something you truly can't take your eyes off. As part of their 2026 Limited Collection, the Gibson Custom Shop revives a formidable semi hollow instrument for the modern day with all the retro inspired stylings to make it exceptional. Black as night and oh so stylish, this ES 345 Reissue is an imposing model for the history

A distinguished semi-hollow in its time and ours, this limited edition Gibson Custom Shop 1959 ES-345 Reissue with Bigsby is something you truly can't take your eyes off. As part of their 2026 Limited Collection, the Gibson Custom Shop revives a formidable semi-hollow instrument for the modern day with all the retro-inspired stylings to make it exceptional. Black as night and oh so stylish, this ES-345 Reissue is an imposing model for the history books.

This limited Gibson Custom creation sets off with an authentic ES-335 doublecut semi-hollow body brought together with maple and poplar. The resonant and airy maple/poplar/maple assembly makes for a bold, full tonal profile to launch everything off. A solid maple centerblock lands within this semi-hollow body to enhance sustain and defeat acoustic feedback. This whole body is wrapped in a Gibson Custom Shop nitrocellulose lacquer finish utilizing their Murphy Lab lacquer aging and wear techniques to replicate authentic age and classy damage for an overall stunning ebony look. Multi-ply binding wraps the body for a clean geometric accent.

From here, this Gibson Custom ES-345 Reissue brings on a mahogany neck in a full Authentic 1959 profile. Ensuring speedy moves from lower to higher registers, this neck travels easily and makes for an easy fretting experience. A rosewood fingerboard joins with twenty-two Reissue Medium Jumbo frets and aged cellulose split parallelogram inlays. With these two elements, the entirety of this ES-345 plays incredibly smoothly for expressive soloing and complex chords.

Such solos and chords are brought out by the guitar's electronics setup. In either pickup position, a Gibson Custombucker Alnico 3 humbucking pickup lands to recreate the tones of late 1950s Patent-Applied-For humbuckers. These rich, robust humbuckers break the mold for a full, warm tonal profile that can do just about anything. Two volume and tone controls match these pickups alongside a definite looker of a feature: a mono Varitone rotary switch that expands this ES-345's sounds even further.

This limited Gibson Custom ES-345 backs everything up with a few sturdy hardware specs. At the headstock, a nylon nut and Kluson Deluxe tuning machines land for smooth stringing and setups. Toward the opposite end of the scale, a ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge matches with a stunning gold-finished Bigsby vibrato tailpiece for working deep vibrato pitch bends into playing while retaining great intonation. This limited release Gibson Custom Shop ES-345 Reissue travels with an included Lifton reissue hardshell case.

A semi-hollow all dressed up with nowhere to go, care to give this ES-345 a night on the town?

• Gibson Custom Shop 2026 Limited Collection model
• Maple/poplar/maple semi-hollow body with solid maple centerblock
• Mahogany neck in Authentic 1959 profile
• Rosewood fingerboard with twenty-two Reissue Medium Jumbo frets
• Aged cellulose split parallelogram fret inlays
• Two Gibson Custombucker Alnico 3 humbucking pickups
• Mono Varitone rotary tone control switch
• Nylon nut and Kluson Deluxe tuning machines
• ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge with Bigsby vibrato tailpiece
• Gibson Custom Shop Murphy Lab Heavy Aged nitrocellulose lacquer gloss finish
• Lifton reissue hardshell case included