Description

A new design out of Gibson Memphis for the 2019 model release, the ES-235 is inspired both by vintage Electric-Spanish models and the brands famous solid bodies. The result is a semi-hollow masterpiece with a single Florentine cut for better fret access, built with spruce bracing around a solid maple centerblock for solid body sustain with hollow body resonance and a minimum of feedback. Its loaded with a gloss nitrocellulose finish, dual Burstbucker Pro humbucking pickups and wired up with a Memphis Tone Circuit Plus (MTC Plus), bringing you incredible looks and hybrid tone to match.

About Gibson Memphis:
Luthier Orville Gibson founded the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. in Kalamazoo, MI in 1902. Its original aim was to make mandolins and mandolin-family instruments. Over the last 100-plus years, Gibson Brands, Inc., as it is now known, has since evolved into the worlds premier manufacturer of semi-hollow and hollow body electric guitars, as well as a celebrated portfolio of innovative solid-body and acoustic models.

If Beale Street could talk, it might tell you about Gibson Memphis. Producing all of Gibsons semi-hollow and hollow body guitars, the Gibson Memphis facility is the heart of the blues.

Top: 3-ply Maple/Poplar/Maple
Back: 3-ply Maple/Poplar/Maple
Rim Material: 3-ply Maple/Poplar/Maple
Centerblock: Maple
Bracing: Spruce
Binding: Single-ply Tan
Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer

Neck: Single Piece Maple
Neck Profile: Rounded “C”
Fingerboard:Rosewood
Inlays: Pearloid Dots
Nut: Bone
Frets: Medium Jumbo – 18% Nickel Silver
Nut Width: 1.687″
Scale Length: 24.75″
Fingerboard Radius: 12″
Number of Frets: 22
End of Board Width: 2.241″

Hardware Finish: Nickel
Bridge: ABR-1 with plated brass saddles
Tailpiece: Die-cast Zinc Stopbar
Tuners: White Oval Button
Pickguard: Single-ply Black
Knobs: Black Top Hats with Silver Inserts
Switch Tip: Cream
Switchwasher: N/A
Truss Rod Cover: Black/White

Neck Pickup: Burstbucker Pro Rhythm
Bridge Pickup: Burstbucker Pro Lead
Controls: MTC Plus: 2 volumes, 2 tones, 1 toggle switch, hand-wired with 500K potentiometers and orange drop capacitors

Strings: .010, .013, .017, .026, .036, .046
Case: Softshell
Other: Certificate of Authenticity