Mystery Dot

BluJu

So guys. I saw this interesting heap on ebay. Is there any way of telling if this is a gibson just by the pics.

I have no interest in the project. Just wanna see for fun.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-OLD-BARN-FIND-GIBSON-335-DOT-EPIPHONE-ELECTRIC-GUITAR-NEEDS-RESTORING-/140709591555?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item20c2f1fa03#ht_919wt_881

singemonkey

Yes. It has a 3 screw truss rod, an unbound neck, and a nashville bridge. Thus it is an Epiphone. Also the trussrod cover says, "dot" No Gibson was ever called that. It's just a slang term for dot neck Gibsons - but is an actual model name for Epiphones. I think this guy knows this but is hoping the romanticism of uncertainty will make people cough up more. I don't think a messed up epi with a broken off headstock is worth more than 100 pounds.

The only 335s to my knowledge that had unbound necks were the very first '58s (which would certainly all have ABR1 bridges, not Nashville bridges). Apart from that handful, all have bound necks.

Scorched

So glad I like my guitars new ?

BluJu

singemonkey wrote: Yes. It has a 3 screw truss rod, an unbound neck, and a nashville bridge. Thus it is an Epiphone. Also the trussrod cover says, "dot" No Gibson was ever called that. It's just a slang term for dot neck Gibsons - but is an actual model name for Epiphones. I think this guy knows this but is hoping the romanticism of uncertainty will make people cough up more. I don't think a messed up epi with a broken off headstock is worth more than 100 pounds.

The only 335s to my knowledge that had unbound necks were the very first '58s (which would certainly all have ABR1 bridges, not Nashville bridges). Apart from that handful, all have bound necks.

Good man! ?

nick

Another way to tell is the bracket that holds the pick guard, on the Gibsons its this weird bolt looking thing, on the Epiphones it the same as the Les Pauls.

That just looks like an Epiphone Dot in Vintage Sunburst that someone fished out of a river