2022 Custom Shop 1964 Wildwood Spec ES-335 - Gloss

Condition Report

This Wildwood Spec '64 ES-335 is in fantastic shape! The frets look nearly perfect with virtually no signs of wear, and the finish shows faint signs of normal use. The only slight cosmetic imperfection to note is some very light hardware tarnishing. A previous owner installed and aftermarket Faber ABR-1-style locking bridge, which works great! It comes with its original hardshell case, too.

A Magic Duo

McCartney and Lennon. Hall and Oates. The Edge and his delay pedal. All of these musical partnerships have brought beautiful noises into the world, but there’s a new dynamic duo in town ready to shake things up: Wildwood Guitars and the Gibson Custom Shop. Make no mistake, I love Hall and Oates, but I sincerely think that these Custom Shop ’64 ES-335s are at least as awesome as the song “Rich Girl.”

Before we get too far, let’s talk about why these ES-335s deserve to be held in such lofty regard. The biggest reason is also the most obvious reason: the meticulous workmanship of the wizards at the Gibson Custom Shop.

The necks are also worth writing home about. Gibson outfitted these semi-hollow sweeties with a ’64 neck profile that is scarily accurate, and that means something coming from me. I worked at a guitar shop in Kalamazoo, Michigan—the home of Gibson—for several years, so I’ve played plenty of old 335s. If you put a blindfold on me, I couldn’t tell the difference between this reissue and a real vintage neck.

For a guitar that looks and feels vintage needs killer electronics, so our friends at Gibson outfitted these exceptional Electric Spanish guitars with Wildwood Spec Custombuckers, which are the product of our obsessive effort to recreate the sound of the vintage guitars we all revere. You can really hear the blood, sweat, and tears that the geniuses at the Gibson Custom Shop put into these humbuckers the instant you strike your first chord. They embody the very best characteristics of vintage underwound PAFs: fantastic string-to-string balance, crystalline clarity, and sweet, singing trebles. It’s not easy to develop a pickup that hard rock players and jazz cats alike will fall in love with, but the fine folks at Gibson have accomplished that nearly impossible feat.

It wasn’t my intention to write a small novel about these 335s, but some guitars are so exceptionally inspirational that it seems criminal to try and distill their essence down to a hundred words, and I couldn’t help myself. The Wildwood team is delighted to present such sterling examples of impeccable craftsmanship to our phenomenal customers.

• Serial Number

  111834

• Brand Name

  Gibson Custom Shop

• Model

  2022 Wildwood Spec 1964 ES-335

• Finish Color

  Viking Red

• Finish Type

  Nitrocellulose Lacquer

• Weight

  7.76 lbs.

• Body Wood

  Semi-hollow Maple Laminate

• Binding

  Single-Ply Cream on Top and Back; Single-ply Cream Rolled Fingerboard Binding

• Neck Dimensions

  .890 1st - .970 12th

• Neck Wood

  Mahogany

• Neck Joint

  Long Tenon with Hide Glue Fit

• Neck Shape

  Authentic '64 Medium C Profile

• Fingerboard Wood

  Indian Rosewood with Hide Glue Fit

• Fingerboard Radius

  12"

• Fingerboard Inlays

  Small Block Cellulose Nitrate

• Frets

  22 Authentic Medium Jumbo

• Scale Length

  24.75"

• Nut Material

  Nylon

• Width at Nut

  1.689"

• Center Block

  Solid Maple

• Pickups

  2 Wildwood Spec Custombuckers

• Controls

  2 Volume, 2 Tone, 3-way Switch

• Tailpiece

  Lightweight Aluminum Stopbar

• Hardware

  Nickel

• Tuners

  Kluson Double-Ring Single-Line

• bridge

  Aftermarket ABR-1-style Faber Locking Bridge

• Pickguard

  3-ply Black

• Case Candy

  Gibson Custom Shop COA

• Case

  Original Gibson Custom Shop Black/Goldenrod Hardshell with Wildwood Spec Badge