Refunds will be applied via the same method of payment used at the time of purchase. New items must be returned with any and all factory packaging that was included with the product. Items must be returned in the same condition as they left the store. Items returned outside of the approval period window will be subject to a restocking fee (up to 15%). Carter Vintage Guitars is not responsible for any return shipping costs. You must notify us immediately after the 48 hour has expired and the item must be returned to Carter Vintage Guitars within 7 days after notifying the store. In the video below, George Thorogood discusses his favorite guitar.All products have a 48 hour approval period. Rock musicians moved on to other guitar brands, as did jazz and country music guitarists, who preferred the more flamboyant Gibson ES-175.įortunately, through the wonders of the internet, anyone seeking these marvelous relics of rock history can still find them for sale online. Sadly, by 1970, Gibson discontinued all of its ES-125 models. And when you consider that the ES-125 came from rather humble beginnings as an electric, Spanish-style guitar, this is really pretty amazing. Indeed, this is a guitar with a beautiful sound that can range from a rumbling purr swelling across a room to a deep growl rolling across a floor. “Gibsons fill out sound really, really nicely,” he said. “The maestro,” he notes, adding that Gibson has a quality that’s all their own - a rich sound that can fill a room. Between 19, only 475 ES-125C and ES-125CD were produced, making them very rare, indeed.īut for Thorogood, what makes Gibson guitars really special is this: These are just a few of the models Gibson introduced, but the model favored by George Thorogood is the ES-125CD model. The main difference between these two models is that the TC was equipped with a single P-90 pickup, as compared to the TCD model, which came with two pickups. A year later, the model was beefed up with two P-90 pickups and was called the ES-125TD. It had most of the same features, but whittled the depth of the body a little bit, from three-and-a-half inches to three-and-one quarter inches. In 1956, the company began updating the es 125 with the introduction of the Gibson ES-125T. The metal, as well as other materials used to make this guitar, was in short supply, so the Gibson instrument factory did its’ part for the war effort - by making airplane skids and parts for submachine guns, notes. Production was halted during World War II, beginning in 1942. There’s also a bit of history behind this guitar. The package is topped off with a Brazilian rosewood fretboard. The body is lightweight and carved from maple, while the neck is carved from Honduran mahogany. Thorogood has plenty of room for innovation since the ES-125 is equipped with a single volume potentiometer (which controls the guitar’s volume and tone) and gold-tinted bonnet-style knobs.Īnd this is a guitar with a beautiful look and feel to it. I’ve tried a ton of other guitars, and none of them work for me, so that’s the only guitar I want to play.” “When I played it, 1,000 ideas popped into my head.
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It’s a semi-hollow body, and the strings were elevated off the body, and it had a very nice sound with the P90s, so when you put it in open tuning, there was a very, very full sound.”Īnd it wasn’t long before inspiration struck. They said that to play it, I would have to buy it. “I said, ‘I’d like to try that guitar,’ and they wouldn’t even let me touch it. So he decided he wanted to put this guitar to the test. When I got back into town after traveling a lot and needed a guitar, I went to the shop and looked up, and the guitar was still there. It was at a shop, way up at the top of the shelf - that’s where they put the good stuff so nobody steals it. “I was playing primarily acoustic guitars, and I needed an electric, and this was a guitar that everybody wanted. If you have the time, I’ll try to consolidate it into 1,000 words or less,” he said, laughing. “It’s a very good story, and I’m glad you asked. The interviewer asked him what made him fall in love with the ES-125. This is a guitar with a rich, throaty sound, and that’s what drew George Thorogood in. Introduced in 1941 as a replacement for the Gibson ES-100, the Gibson ES-125 featured a lavishly arched maple top which became a mainstay for these light, hollow-body electric guitars.įavored by musicians like Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, George Thorogood, and BB King, this guitar kept things simple.
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