Detail 01
12-inch fingerboard radius and medium-jumbo frets
The layout is designed to balance chord work with fluid bends.

Independent shopping perspective
Built around the early ES-335 format, the 50s pairs a semi-hollow maple/poplar/maple body with a solid maple center block, balancing open body resonance with sustained notes and greater feedback control at volume. Alnico 3 Custombuckers provide warm, harmonically detailed humbucker output, while the handwired controls give you responsive adjustment of volume and tone. Its Rounded C mahogany neck has a deliberately substantial feel, joined by a bound rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays and 22 frets. A hardshell case is included.


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What matters in use
Catalog numbers tell only part of the story. These are the details most likely to change how this product feels, sounds, or fits into a setup.

Detail 01
The layout is designed to balance chord work with fluid bends.
Detail 02
Each pickup's level and tone can be adjusted through 500k potentiometers and Orange Drop capacitors.
Detail 03
They complete the model's period-focused hardware package.
Product questions
Straight answers to the questions shoppers most often ask about this product.
It has calibrated Custombucker Alnico 3 humbuckers in the neck and bridge positions.
Yes. A hardshell case is included.
It uses an ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge with an aluminum stopbar tailpiece.
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