Holy crap!!! There it is!!! No one believes me when I bring up the solid 335. I tried one out at a shop in Atlanta back in the mid to late 80's. I really wanted to buy it but couldn't afford it. This is the first time I've seen one since. My day is made.
Good call Jared. Fender calls thie the "grease bucket" on a Tele. does the same thing but controllable. with the Volume knob and the tone (grease bucket) blended you get a wide range of tonalities.
those resistors that were soldered on the pots that you weren't sure about is a treble bleed mod. Retains the high end clarity when you roll the guitar volume back.
The cap and resister is called a treble bleed. It is a modification that maintains high end when decreasing the volume. Helps keep the tone from getting muddy.
What a memory. '81 or so, me and a pal stop by Don Wher's Music City, SF. I'd just bought a IBZ RR Sr so just browsing. He had a '75 SG Special he 'modded' for a DMZ HB set (paf,super). He fell in love with a walnut 335 s. Actually thought he was gonna buy it. Nearly forgot about that day.
I had a Les Paul and began to have trouble with my back so I gifted it to my nephew who is a player and much more proficient than his uncle. The reason I was prompted to gift the Les Paul was that I had acquired a guitar from my past. Back in the '80's I traded my The Paul for a 50's something re-issueTelecaster that I had fallen in love with; and though I loved the Tele, I always missed The Paul. Then Gibson reissued it and I got one ASAP and I still love my The Paul. No back problems. I enjoy your videos, keep up the great work!
Never knew these things existed, but I'm pretty sure I'd love it. Looks very similar to Hot Rod, my modified red Ibanez double cut that I've been playing for over 20 years.
The Ernie Ball Music Man Valentine is a bolt-on different rendition of a 79', 80' 335S. And they make a Sterliing version if you want something really affordable. Gibson's consistency wasn't stellar back in 335S days, but if you found a "good one" they could play great. Great video as always, thanks for sharing!
I had this model as my first guitar. It was an 81' Standard. It was the early 90's and wasn't worth much back then. They weren't all that desirable during that time. I remember it feeling extremely heavy.
7:21 AUG 1,1980 was a FRI. , and the 4th MON. That weekend at age 14 I was awarded Most Improved Camper at Camp Leelanau , on Lake Michigan in Leelanau County, MI. It was a 7 week Summer camp. I was terrified of swimming and my folks figured I'd better learn. So I learned the survival float and how to dog paddle. The kids liked my Gibson all mahogany 1964 LG-0 parlor acoustic guitar. My mom paid $200 for it. I wore out the frets! A great guitar for EVERY style, every skill level. A DeArmond 260 hole pickup (is wire wound magnetic + piezo !) is EXCELLENT ON AND TUBE AMP ESPECIALLY. Silver face Princeton lookout!
I was a Gibson and Fender dealer at the time and at our store we looked down our noses at the Firebrand series. They didn’t sell well and breathed cheap ugly Gibson to us. They just didn’t make our pulse quicken which probably didn’t help sell them. We preferred pushing our used USA guitars because they were a better value/investment for our customers and were typically a lot more profitable for us to sell. That’s where the money came from to buy the Firebrands that our Gibson rep insisted we had to carry. As the world turned in the guitar business.
Shame they're not the same size as an ES-335...always wanted a solid body that was scaled to my Clydesdale frame lol! Sounds great, especially with a touch of dirt, looks pretty damned good...hell, I'd rock one for the right price. Two grand though? Nah...since it's not exactly that dream axe from my youth, I'll hold out for someone who's asking price is more in the $1K-ish range (it IS a budget model after all...rarity doesn't always mean it's worth more, even in the Gibson lexicon). Nice review on this cool oddity, Trogly! ;-)
Nice! Reminds me of a Travis Bean or Dan Armstrong. I've got an 83 Firebrand The Paul Deluxe (weird since they supposedly ceased making them in 82), full gloss wine red with a big brass Kahler, I love it!
The capacitor/resistor thing is a treble bleed. It's basically a more sophisticated volume control that uses a capacitor to preserve your highs a bit better when you roll off the volume. The resistor is there to keep the guitar from sounding tinny at lower volumes. These guys are wired in parallel, which can make the taper a bit wonky. If you don't like that, then wiring them in series would solve it. And overall, it's really only useful if you use your volume control a lot and have a problem with everything turning to mud when you roll down. Otherwise, it's just a waste of time and components.
I have a love/hate relationship with this body style. I love the es-335 but think these are a little awkwardly styled. I used to have a 335-s Deluxe Professional and it was a fantastic guitar. Every bit as quality as other late 70s/early 80s higher end Gibsons I've had. I don't love the dirty fingers pickups though, as much as I've tried. I put a Bareknuckle Riff Raff set in and it sounded glorious. They have a body and bite somewhere between an SG and an LP. I wish it had just come with the Shaw PAFs to begin with though.
12:03 those are treble bleeders, common mod on these things from what I've seen. From stock, these guitars (and most other electric guitars) get a darker sound to them the more you turn the volume down, those capacitors were put there to prevent that and keep the sound nice and bright at any volume. Never tried it personally. Edit: that could also explain the bright tone in the demo. It's essentially like the 1st position on a Fender Esquire where it bypasses the tone control and gets that nice bite-y sound
A cap and resistor is a treble blead on both pickups. And the original cap stays in. If u take them out it will be back to normal. I am sure u no what a treble bread does so if u don't like the idea just remove the resistors and caps and just keep original 2 caps for tone and u r good. And they grounded the shielding they did as well which won't hurt it at all. Awesome guitar
Hey Trogly! Have you ever thought about a Mesa Boogie Filmore Amp? Or one of the California Tweeds? I think they'd suit your style, and they're the less complex amps in their catalog 😄
At one time he did have a Mesa Boogie head. After about a year it started acting up so he took it in for repair, it was gone after that never to return. Out of all his amps I think his old Gibson amp, the special 1W Marshall and the Fender DR he's using have been the best sounding. Those Mesa Boogie amps can be a pain to work on, it's no wonder he stopped using it.
Trogmeister,,,,thank you for expanding our world. Most would never see or hear one of these, but again you give us a view into something that is unique and cool. Good work!
Hello trogly, I did that mod to a few of my guitars and it made them glow-in-the-dark, really cool when the light engineer turn stage lights down... I have a Fender Strat with a pair of Shaw buckers, it's my " king dirty " guitar sounds awesome. You have a knowledgeable audience. Love Mr. Shaw's pickups... Randy in the Great Northwoods Of Michigan
Greetings Randy, I'm also in the Great Northwoods of Michigan. Love it up here, the crappy Winters keep the population density pretty low in these parts!
Hello HK guitar. We have a place in the U P that my wife and I really prefer to be. We also have a place in the lower Peninsula that we come to during the winters. I wonder where about you are at or close proximity. I'm in the Grayling area. If we live near enough to each other and if you'd like to meet up and have coffee and see if we could maybe friends and jam together ? I'm having hard time finding people to jam with around here... Randy in northern Michigan
@@Randy.100 Hey Randy, yeah, I'm not too far from you lower peninsula location. Send me an email via my UA-cam page. BTW, we moved North from the Detroit area back in 2006. Even though I grew up in the Ann Arbor area by 2006 I couldn't get far away from the Detroit area fast enough!
I like looking at Les Paul's, I think they're great looking guitars but I've never loved playing one although I'd like to give some proper vintage PAFs a whirl. And SG or normal ES-335 is what's always felt comfortable in my lap to me. This has got me interested in trying a 335-S out. I would most likely shoot for a mahogany model instead of the heavy maple but it's definitely an interesting idea to me.
Just put this same guitar on layaway and it is the Maple Tim Shaw HBs with Pearl Tipped Tuners and all, but unlike many of these that were Anchors the one I found aged well and felt comfortable if not lighter then similar Les Paul. Other then Crowning some frets and polishing and cleaning it. It is just as ready to Rock Today as it was on June 18th, 1980, when it left Nashville Plant for the Real World
Looking at the way that guitar is wired it would seem to be using the modern wiring with treble bleed circuits. I've found that in many instances if you revert back to the original '50s style wiring circuit you no longer need a treble-bleed. I'd like to also add that the '50s style control wiring really does sound a little better. I had treble-bleed on my Les Paul for the longest time, when I used the neck pickup I always had the neck pickup's tone maxed out to 10 just to keep it from getting too muddy sounding. Once I switched to the '50s wiring circuit I can now play that same pickup with it's volume down around 4 or 5 and the neck tone control also down around 6 or 7. Initially I didn't think the '50s style wiring would make that much of a difference, but it really does. I'd recommend trying the '50s wiring before installing a treble-bleed. Just my $.02 Cents.
Known as the Gibson Firebrand 335.Didn’t last long since once played you either bought a 330 series because of the bloom around notes due to the semi-hollow construction or you bought a Les Paul.Same store had a clean,used ‘64 Epiphone Casino.I bought the Casino and still have it and play it.
Austin, until I saw this video, I had no idea these rare birds existed. I'd love to get one in my hands, if I could only afford it. I do have something a little similar: A Hamer Sunburst Archtop. Instead of being a contoured flat top, the Archtop features a carved top with a maple veneer. Think double-cut Les Paul. It's the only jazz-style guitar I own.😎❤️️🎸‼️
Firebrands are really cool, but only because they were cheap. They are pretty heavy and control layout is poor. People paying 1,500 to 2k for one is insane.
I noticed in the brief glimpse you gave us of a The Paul, that yours had a pickguard. Don't think I've ever seen a pickguard on a Walnut Wonder before.
a minute in and I'm already thinking they brought that out to compete with the Kramer 250g and the other Kramer Aluminum neck guitars as it was around that time Kramer was killing the competition
The 335 sounds great but gets slightly muddy when you added distortion. But I do like it. I like the example that you showed that had what I call a rally stripe across the body. Cool old background music though. Sounds like some sort of hammond's organ.
No comments about the weird stuff stamped in the back cavity? 🤔 Very un-Trogly like. You usually point that stuff out. Cool guitar. Thanks for the video 👊🏻
In 1984 Martyn Booth who worked for Gibson in the UK, suggested putting a fancy top and trem in a 335 s as a top end model. Gibson rejected his prototype and pushed on with the superstratty thing were doing. 1985 NAMM everyone loses their stuff over the PRS Custom 24. A fancy top two cutaway guitar with a trem. Booth like took his concept to Yamaha (who had rejected Smith in '82) and now has his own small business. So if you like the idea of a 335s only high end check them out.
I'd compare it to a Les Paul double cut but with a larger body. Typically a resistor is a beige or brown color with color coded bands to tell ohms and tolerances. Unless they're foreign made. Even with that the ohmage and tolerances are printed. But those two things below seem to suggest they are they may be more capacitors going by the numbers and lettering. If you put two capacitors in parallel it works as a single cap increasing the capacitance across the plate so likely they were trying to control output If you put them in series it decreases capacitance. Looks as if those may be 500k ohm potentiometer. Don't know if it's an attempt to make the pickups hotter. Wouldn't think so since the action as you said was slammed as low as possible.
I never quite understood the thinking behind the 335-S. The es335 was always liked by blues and jazz guitarists and the 335-S was geared to heavier styles of music. If I was designing a 335 Solid it’d be more like a double cut Les Paul with a maple cap on the back as well and geared them towards the same blues and jazz guys.
All I remember about this model is a kid who had one, came knocking on my door at 2 in the morning, and wanted thie pickups swapped to dimarzio sdhp's. It was 1980.
Is this the guitar you had on your website for awhile? A friend of mine has one of these - he's had it for years. Much like my own '80 Firebrand Les Paul that I bought in the early 90's.
That, is a LOT of lumber! My two cents on vintage gutiars: You pointed out the bridge pickup with the grooves in the top. I appreciate the guitar even more because of it. From a dealer stand point, it's a minus for condition. From a person who appreciates an item's history stand point, it makes it more valuable (for me, at least). Why? It has survived! It's been played, most likely gigged with (and we all know what kind of things can happen at a gig. Ask Willie Nelson), and yet, here it is. There's no value in an instrument that's not been played.
listens: yup definitely tim shaw PAFS I have a few with T Top Bobbins + the spacers/roughcast magnet,etc. date stamps around 1979. Those are the weird transition period ones that are hard to tell if they are more T Top DNA or tim shaw PAF dna. I had a fire brand the paul with em, and to me they sounded pretty T-Toppy still (more mids than tim shaw PAF) so maybe they still had the T Top wire but tim shaw PAf other stuff
there is only 1 guitar i've ever played that i think of as the one that got away, and it was one of these i found at a GC in Cincinnati 20 years ago... but that was i think the dirty fingers.
Not an Electric Spanish? It was called that because you played it vertically on your lap like a Spanish guitar, not facing up, Hawaiian style. There's nothing else Spanish about an ES; Spanish guitars have round sound holes.
Hey Trogly, are you able to get hold of the 2021 Epiphones at the moment? I've ordered an ES339 and put down a £50 deposit, but with no ETA. I was wondering if it's just UK dealers who can't get them, or if theres a world wide shortage?
I bought one in 1980...my first 'good' guitar. I traded it for a 12-string accoustic guitar a couple years later. I have regretted that move for almost 40 years now.
hello. that looks Hog top and the Hog top looks Walnut. I like this color, like my '15 Hog top Trad. My favorite HS is no veneer Firebrand. Satin is my fave finish. The Paul is Walnut and slab, I like carve top. Gibsin makes all my favorite specs., just not in one guitar. womp, womp womp. Ü ♫
Holy crap!!! There it is!!! No one believes me when I bring up the solid 335. I tried one out at a shop in Atlanta back in the mid to late 80's. I really wanted to buy it but couldn't afford it. This is the first time I've seen one since. My day is made.
I have one of these. I had bought it simply because I'd never heard of it. Great guitar!
those resistor/capacitor joints added to volume pots are treble bleed circuits, they keep ur pickups from losing highs at low volume
Good call Jared. Fender calls thie the "grease bucket" on a Tele. does the same thing but controllable. with the Volume knob and the tone (grease bucket) blended you get a wide range of tonalities.
Yes - exactly what I thought. I installed them on my “The Paul” copy.
@RyanPullin Correct.
those resistors that were soldered on the pots that you weren't sure about is a treble bleed mod. Retains the high end clarity when you roll the guitar volume back.
The cap and resister is called a treble bleed. It is a modification that maintains high end when decreasing the volume. Helps keep the tone from getting muddy.
What a memory.
'81 or so, me and a pal stop by Don Wher's Music City, SF.
I'd just bought a IBZ RR Sr so just browsing. He had a '75 SG Special he 'modded' for a DMZ HB set (paf,super).
He fell in love with a walnut 335 s. Actually thought he was gonna buy it. Nearly forgot about that day.
I had a Les Paul and began to have trouble with my back so I gifted it to my nephew who is a player and much more proficient than his uncle. The reason I was prompted to gift the Les Paul was that I had acquired a guitar from my past. Back in the '80's I traded my The Paul for a 50's something re-issueTelecaster that I had fallen in love with; and though I loved the Tele, I always missed The Paul. Then Gibson reissued it and I got one ASAP and I still love my The Paul. No back problems. I enjoy your videos, keep up the great work!
Love it and the Les Paul double cut
I used to have one of these! It was SO heavy!!
I did too, and yeah it was!
It looks like it weighs about as much grandma's dining room table.
Other than the weight were you a fan of it?
@@disprogreavette8545 Absolutely. It played and sounded great for the style of rock music I was playing at the time.
@@anthonypinkos Nice, it looks like it would be fun to play.
Never knew these things existed, but I'm pretty sure I'd love it. Looks very similar to Hot Rod, my modified red Ibanez double cut that I've been playing for over 20 years.
The Ernie Ball Music Man Valentine is a bolt-on different rendition of a 79', 80' 335S. And they make a Sterliing version if you want something really affordable. Gibson's consistency wasn't stellar back in 335S days, but if you found a "good one" they could play great. Great video as always, thanks for sharing!
I had this model as my first guitar. It was an 81' Standard. It was the early 90's and wasn't worth much back then. They weren't all that desirable during that time. I remember it feeling extremely heavy.
Totally got me. I was thinking walnut and never knew it was maple. I learned something today. Thanks Austin.
After watching your original video on the 335s, I purchased one. Mine is the model in this video. They are rock machines!
The love child of Malcolm and Angus’s guitars.
7:21 AUG 1,1980 was a FRI. , and the 4th MON. That weekend at age 14 I was awarded Most Improved Camper at Camp Leelanau , on Lake Michigan in Leelanau County, MI. It was a 7 week Summer camp. I was terrified of swimming and my folks figured I'd better learn. So I learned the survival float and how to dog paddle. The kids liked my Gibson all mahogany 1964 LG-0 parlor acoustic guitar. My mom paid $200 for it. I wore out the frets! A great guitar for EVERY style, every skill level. A DeArmond 260 hole pickup (is wire wound magnetic + piezo !) is EXCELLENT ON AND TUBE AMP ESPECIALLY. Silver face Princeton lookout!
happy Sunday dude! I look forward to your videos everyday
I was a Gibson and Fender dealer at the time and at our store we looked down our noses at the Firebrand series. They didn’t sell well and breathed cheap ugly Gibson to us. They just didn’t make our pulse quicken which probably didn’t help sell them. We preferred pushing our used USA guitars because they were a better value/investment for our customers and were typically a lot more profitable for us to sell. That’s where the money came from to buy the Firebrands that our Gibson rep insisted we had to carry. As the world turned in the guitar business.
Shame they're not the same size as an ES-335...always wanted a solid body that was scaled to my Clydesdale frame lol! Sounds great, especially with a touch of dirt, looks pretty damned good...hell, I'd rock one for the right price. Two grand though? Nah...since it's not exactly that dream axe from my youth, I'll hold out for someone who's asking price is more in the $1K-ish range (it IS a budget model after all...rarity doesn't always mean it's worth more, even in the Gibson lexicon). Nice review on this cool oddity, Trogly! ;-)
Trogly that new amp sounds great, way better.
Love the guitar reminds me of a Jerry Garcia Travis Bean guitar. Great tone too
Nice! Reminds me of a Travis Bean or Dan Armstrong. I've got an 83 Firebrand The Paul Deluxe (weird since they supposedly ceased making them in 82), full gloss wine red with a big brass Kahler, I love it!
It reminds me of the old epiphone scrolls from the 70's! Killer guitars
The capacitor/resistor thing is a treble bleed. It's basically a more sophisticated volume control that uses a capacitor to preserve your highs a bit better when you roll off the volume. The resistor is there to keep the guitar from sounding tinny at lower volumes. These guys are wired in parallel, which can make the taper a bit wonky. If you don't like that, then wiring them in series would solve it. And overall, it's really only useful if you use your volume control a lot and have a problem with everything turning to mud when you roll down. Otherwise, it's just a waste of time and components.
That's partially why I'm a fan of the Hawk. It was only put out for 2 years.
@@mikegordon7040 It translated to 'kiss your incompetent fool sister'. Whattayamean?
I have a love/hate relationship with this body style. I love the es-335 but think these are a little awkwardly styled.
I used to have a 335-s Deluxe Professional and it was a fantastic guitar. Every bit as quality as other late 70s/early 80s higher end Gibsons I've had. I don't love the dirty fingers pickups though, as much as I've tried. I put a Bareknuckle Riff Raff set in and it sounded glorious. They have a body and bite somewhere between an SG and an LP. I wish it had just come with the Shaw PAFs to begin with though.
A good friend of mine had one in the 90s . Very good guitar .
I *really* love the amber headstock.
I'm starting my own builds soon. And I gotta tell ya I'm gonna build me a solid body 335 and I can't wait
12:03 those are treble bleeders, common mod on these things from what I've seen. From stock, these guitars (and most other electric guitars) get a darker sound to them the more you turn the volume down, those capacitors were put there to prevent that and keep the sound nice and bright at any volume. Never tried it personally.
Edit: that could also explain the bright tone in the demo. It's essentially like the 1st position on a Fender Esquire where it bypasses the tone control and gets that nice bite-y sound
A cap and resistor is a treble blead on both pickups. And the original cap stays in. If u take them out it will be back to normal. I am sure u no what a treble bread does so if u don't like the idea just remove the resistors and caps and just keep original 2 caps for tone and u r good. And they grounded the shielding they did as well which won't hurt it at all. Awesome guitar
Hey Trogly! Have you ever thought about a Mesa Boogie Filmore Amp? Or one of the California Tweeds? I think they'd suit your style, and they're the less complex amps in their catalog 😄
At one time he did have a Mesa Boogie head. After about a year it started acting up so he took it in for repair, it was gone after that never to return. Out of all his amps I think his old Gibson amp, the special 1W Marshall and the Fender DR he's using have been the best sounding.
Those Mesa Boogie amps can be a pain to work on, it's no wonder he stopped using it.
Trogmeister,,,,thank you for expanding our world. Most would never see or hear one of these, but again you give us a view into
something that is unique and cool. Good work!
Hello trogly, I did that mod to a few of my guitars and it made them glow-in-the-dark, really cool when the light engineer turn stage lights down... I have a Fender Strat with a pair of Shaw buckers, it's my " king dirty " guitar sounds awesome.
You have a knowledgeable audience.
Love Mr. Shaw's pickups...
Randy in the Great Northwoods Of Michigan
Greetings Randy, I'm also in the Great Northwoods of Michigan.
Love it up here, the crappy Winters keep the population density pretty low in these parts!
Hello HK guitar. We have a place in the U P that my wife and I really prefer to be. We also have a place in the lower Peninsula that we come to during the winters.
I wonder where about you are at or close proximity.
I'm in the Grayling area. If we live near enough to each other and if you'd like to meet up and have coffee and see if we could maybe friends and jam together ? I'm having hard time finding people to jam with around here...
Randy in northern Michigan
@@Randy.100 Hey Randy, yeah, I'm not too far from you lower peninsula location.
Send me an email via my UA-cam page.
BTW, we moved North from the Detroit area back in 2006. Even though I grew up in the Ann Arbor area by 2006 I couldn't get far away from the Detroit area fast enough!
Always on the lookout for a Gibson les Paul custom with ebony fretboard and chrome hardware. That’s the holy grail for me.
I like looking at Les Paul's, I think they're great looking guitars but I've never loved playing one although I'd like to give some proper vintage PAFs a whirl. And SG or normal ES-335 is what's always felt comfortable in my lap to me. This has got me interested in trying a 335-S out. I would most likely shoot for a mahogany model instead of the heavy maple but it's definitely an interesting idea to me.
Looks like the working class cousin of one of those super expensive Travis guitars.
Or the less expensive Kramer 250g
That's exactly the reason I bought one.
Just put this same guitar on layaway and it is the Maple Tim Shaw HBs with Pearl Tipped Tuners and all, but unlike many of these that were Anchors the one I found aged well and felt comfortable if not lighter then similar Les Paul. Other then Crowning some frets and polishing and cleaning it. It is just as ready to Rock Today as it was on June 18th, 1980, when it left Nashville Plant for the Real World
Dude!!! A The Paul with a wider waist......my perfect guitar....now I'm on the hunt.
I had a “the Paul” in ‘80 and a 335-s 2 years later....brings back memories!
When I look at that I don't think 335 I think of some special run double cut Junior or something like that.
Nice, that neck pu sounds pretty good. Might have to try it w/o the treble bleeds in the circuit.
Looking at the way that guitar is wired it would seem to be using the modern wiring with treble bleed circuits.
I've found that in many instances if you revert back to the original '50s style wiring circuit you no longer need a treble-bleed.
I'd like to also add that the '50s style control wiring really does sound a little better.
I had treble-bleed on my Les Paul for the longest time, when I used the neck pickup I always had the neck pickup's tone maxed out to 10 just to keep it from getting too muddy sounding. Once I switched to the '50s wiring circuit I can now play that same pickup with it's volume down around 4 or 5 and the neck tone control also down around 6 or 7.
Initially I didn't think the '50s style wiring would make that much of a difference, but it really does.
I'd recommend trying the '50s wiring before installing a treble-bleed.
Just my $.02 Cents.
Known as the Gibson Firebrand 335.Didn’t last long since once played you either bought a 330 series because of the bloom around notes due to the semi-hollow construction or you bought a Les Paul.Same store had a clean,used ‘64 Epiphone Casino.I bought the Casino and still have it and play it.
It glows around the edges.....sweet.
Sweat
I have a 1980 in really great shape, and honestly it's my go-to guitar. If you search UA-cam for JCM800 Gibson Firebrand you'll see a short test.
Austin, until I saw this video, I had no idea these rare birds existed. I'd love to get one in my hands, if I could only afford it. I do have something a little similar: A Hamer Sunburst Archtop. Instead of being a contoured flat top, the Archtop features a carved top with a maple veneer. Think double-cut Les Paul. It's the only jazz-style guitar I own.😎❤️️🎸‼️
Wow this guitar is so attractive to me! I wish I could play one of those!
Woah pretty sure I saw frank iero from mcr play one of these when he was filling in as a guitarist on a Thursday livestream, super cool guitar!!
I’ve had mine since I was 13 standard no mods and original case. Still my favorite.
Firebrands are really cool, but only because they were cheap. They are pretty heavy and control layout is poor. People paying 1,500 to 2k for one is insane.
I noticed in the brief glimpse you gave us of a The Paul, that yours had a pickguard. Don't think I've ever seen a pickguard on a Walnut Wonder before.
Great playing!! Love those jams. Really liking the guitar.
That guitar was sounding nasty! In a good way. Somehow Trogly is finding time to practice, getting real good on these demo's.
@@saltpeter7429 I agree!
a minute in and I'm already thinking they brought that out to compete with the Kramer 250g and the other Kramer Aluminum neck guitars as it was around that time Kramer was killing the competition
The 335 sounds great but gets slightly muddy when you added distortion. But I do like it. I like the example that you showed that had what I call a rally stripe across the body. Cool old background music though. Sounds like some sort of hammond's organ.
Passed on one of these for $550 two years ago. Aww the good ol’ pre-COVID-bubble days!
Definitely gives the same minimalist vibe as “The Paul”, and I suppose if would have less feedback issues than a 335.
This one, as a solid body guitar, is bound to also bring a lot of sustain, which the actual 335s lack in this area.
I think the wear on the bridge pickup is a result from a previous owners attempt to balance the output with the hotter neck pickup.
Cheers from Sweden
No comments about the weird stuff stamped in the back cavity? 🤔
Very un-Trogly like. You usually point that stuff out. Cool guitar. Thanks for the video 👊🏻
In 1984 Martyn Booth who worked for Gibson in the UK, suggested putting a fancy top and trem in a 335 s as a top end model. Gibson rejected his prototype and pushed on with the superstratty thing were doing. 1985 NAMM everyone loses their stuff over the PRS Custom 24. A fancy top two cutaway guitar with a trem.
Booth like took his concept to Yamaha (who had rejected Smith in '82) and now has his own small business. So if you like the idea of a 335s only high end check them out.
I'd compare it to a Les Paul double cut but with a larger body. Typically a resistor is a beige or brown color with color coded bands to tell ohms and tolerances. Unless they're foreign made. Even with that the ohmage and tolerances are printed. But those two things below seem to suggest they are they may be more capacitors going by the numbers and lettering. If you put two capacitors in parallel it works as a single cap increasing the capacitance across the plate so likely they were trying to control output If you put them in series it decreases capacitance. Looks as if those may be 500k ohm potentiometer. Don't know if it's an attempt to make the pickups hotter. Wouldn't think so since the action as you said was slammed as low as possible.
Trogly's in the HOUSE!!!
I never quite understood the thinking behind the 335-S. The es335 was always liked by blues and jazz guitarists and the 335-S was geared to heavier styles of music. If I was designing a 335 Solid it’d be more like a double cut Les Paul with a maple cap on the back as well and geared them towards the same blues and jazz guys.
All I remember about this model is a kid who had one, came knocking on my door at 2 in the morning, and wanted thie pickups swapped to dimarzio sdhp's. It was 1980.
Love the tones, love the shape, love the color I totally dig it.
You ripped it up on that thing! Sounded great!
Is this the guitar you had on your website for awhile?
A friend of mine has one of these - he's had it for years. Much like my own '80 Firebrand Les Paul that I bought in the early 90's.
Liked the tuners and the, Gibson firebrand logo. But that’s about it for me.
They should bring these back. I can see them being really popular for stoner rock and doom metal.
That, is a LOT of lumber! My two cents on vintage gutiars: You pointed out the bridge pickup with the grooves in the top. I appreciate the guitar even more because of it. From a dealer stand point, it's a minus for condition. From a person who appreciates an item's history stand point, it makes it more valuable (for me, at least). Why? It has survived! It's been played, most likely gigged with (and we all know what kind of things can happen at a gig. Ask Willie Nelson), and yet, here it is. There's no value in an instrument that's not been played.
@@guitarocd9984 they mostly won't get played, is my guess.
Super cool guitar! ☠️☠️☠️🤟🏼
It sounds excellent looking forward to it. Thank you. I love the show.
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yup definitely tim shaw PAFS
I have a few with T Top Bobbins + the spacers/roughcast magnet,etc. date stamps around 1979. Those are the weird transition period ones that are hard to tell if they are more T Top DNA or tim shaw PAF dna. I had a fire brand the paul with em, and to me they sounded pretty T-Toppy still (more mids than tim shaw PAF) so maybe they still had the T Top wire but tim shaw PAf other stuff
I have one of these. Excellent guitar that just didn't catch on at the time.
I Love the 335
I need more info on the case. I have a 1980 335-S and I'm struggling to find the correct case for it.
These days, it'd be a 339-S based on that body size.
Thank you, Austin! Is this for sale yet?
You should do a video on the Gibson Junior Lite. Excellent guitars from the early 00s.
I think I like the Firebrand.👍
Oh, woah! My reverb ad for silverburst one was on here lmao nice
there is only 1 guitar i've ever played that i think of as the one that got away, and it was one of these i found at a GC in Cincinnati 20 years ago... but that was i think the dirty fingers.
If it wasn't for the guitar model in the title, I'd be saying "Cool vintage Ibanez, bro!" Or DC NQP (Not-Quite-Pro)
I would love to rock that guitar!✌👍👍
Not an Electric Spanish? It was called that because you played it vertically on your lap like a Spanish guitar, not facing up, Hawaiian style. There's nothing else Spanish about an ES; Spanish guitars have round sound holes.
Finally a 335 I would play
This is the coolest guitar ive seen in a long time :0
I like this guitar!
If you haven’t done a video for the Crest you should, that’s sweet looking
Hey Trogly, are you able to get hold of the 2021 Epiphones at the moment? I've ordered an ES339 and put down a £50 deposit, but with no ETA. I was wondering if it's just UK dealers who can't get them, or if theres a world wide shortage?
imo, if this guitar had the exact same shape of the es 335 it would be more appealing to me, but is still quite a nice guitar
What model was BB Kings Lucille? It had a chicken head knob and no f-holes. I assume it was semi-hollow.
Yes, it's a semi hollow with no f-holes to cut the feedback. Some Gretsch are made the same.
@@julosx Thanks
Trogly, you should try a Travis Bean or a Dan Armstrong one day!
They should bring that back... that is a cool looking guitar
It sounds like the mics are clipping (in the tone demo), so maybe lower the gain on your interface? It wasn’t very nice sounding lol
I bought one in 1980...my first 'good' guitar. I traded it for a 12-string accoustic guitar a couple years later. I have regretted that move for almost 40 years now.
Quite a phenomenon.
I guess the capacitor/resistor is a treble bleed.
Looks lovely
Aw' they should have fire branded f-holes on it.
hello. that looks Hog top and the Hog top looks Walnut. I like this color, like my '15 Hog top Trad. My favorite HS is no veneer Firebrand. Satin is my fave finish. The Paul is Walnut and slab, I like carve top. Gibsin makes all my favorite specs., just not in one guitar. womp, womp womp. Ü ♫
What are the main sources of your distortion? Love your videos by the way
Haven't seen those rectangular green capacitors (metal film?) in a long time... Pretty sure Radio Shack sold those. 😂