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The Gibson ES-135 is a semi-hollow body electric guitar made by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. Originally introduced in 1956, it was discontinued in 1958. The model, with some modifications, was reintroduced in 1991.
The Gibson ES-135 has a Florentine cutaway, a trapeze tailpiece, two P-100 pickups (stacked humbuckers with P90 covers) with two tone and volume controls and a three-way switch. It had looks and tone reminiscent of the old ES-125 TDC, but was not a fully hollow thinline guitar, having a feedback-suppressing sustain block running under the pickups and bridge from the neck/body joint to the base of the body like the ES-335.
The body itself and neck were again of similar construction to the ES-335, being built from maple but with an unbound rosewood fingerboard with dot-style fret position markers. The metal fittings were chrome-plated, and the P-100s had black plastic "soapbar" style covers.
Gibson claimed it was the first semi-solid electric guitar with a Florentine-style single cutaway in the world.
The ES-135 went through several changes during its production life. The P-100 pickups, intended to have the tone and output of the P-90 but without the single-coil P-90's tendency to hum.
The original trapeze tailpiece gave the guitar a distinctive tone and an aggressive "bark" when played with vigor.
The ES-135 f-holes, a stop tailpiece and Tune-O-Matic bridge, and P100s.
