The Trini Lopez Standard is the strangest thing Gibson made in the sixties and it has aged into one of the most wanted. Diamond soundholes instead of f-holes, slashed-diamond inlays down a bound rosewood board, six-a-side tuners on a Firebird-style headstock, and a trapeze tailpiece with Trini's diamond set into the wood. None of it is decoration bolted onto a 335. It is a different guitar that happens to share the body.
This one is in Arctic Breeze, which is not a colour Gibson puts on many of them.
Underneath it is ES-335 architecture done properly: three-ply maple, poplar and maple with a solid maple centreblock, solid mahogany neck in the chunky '64 medium C, 24.75" scale, 22 medium jumbo frets at a 12" radius. Custombuckers with their own volume and tone each, hand wired through CTS audio taper pots and paper-in-oil capacitors, ABR-1 bridge, Kluson single-line tuners.
If you have played a 335 and wanted the neck to have more in it, this is the one.
SPECIFICATIONS
Serial: 121034
Body: 3-ply Maple/Poplar/Maple with solid Maple centreblock
Body Shape: ES-335 with diamond soundholes
Binding: 1-ply Royalite
Finish: Nitrocellulose lacquer, Arctic Breeze
Neck: Solid Mahogany, '64 Medium C
Scale Length: 24.75"
Fingerboard: Rosewood, bound
Fingerboard Radius: 12"
Frets: 22, medium jumbo
Inlays: Split diamond, cellulose nitrate
Headstock: Six-on-a-side
Pickups: Custombucker, neck and bridge
Controls: Volume and tone per pickup, CTS audio taper pots, paper-in-oil capacitors, hand wired
Bridge: ABR-1
Tailpiece: Trapeze with wooden Trini Lopez diamond insert
Tuners: Kluson single line