Overview
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Product:
- electric guitars
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Dates of manufacture:
1940 to 1942
When the Gibson ES-300 was introduced in 1940 it had the Gibson long diagonal pickup a single 6.5 inches long pickup that stretched diagonally from the bridge to the neck. This pickup had a tortoiseshell like plastic cover and was mounted diagonally extending from the fingerboard on the bass side to the bridge on the treble side, with two pairs of magnets underneath. This long diagonal pickup was not successful and was replaced on the Es-300 in 1941 by a newer version -the short diagonal with two magnets only - it had 10,000 turns of magnet wire and was also used on the L5 and super 400.
Specifications (21)
Body
Body back material | maple body back |
Body sides material | maple body sides |
Body top material | spruce body top |
Hollow body | hollow body |
Pickguard material | black pickguard |
Soundhole | 2 f-holes |
Neck
Body fret | Neck joins body at 14th fret |
Number of frets | 20 fret |
Peghead (headstock) | bound headstock |
Tuner layout | three-each-side |
Hardware
Bridge | adjustable rosewood bridge |
Hardware color | nickel hardware |
Tailpiece | trapeze tailpiece |
Fretboard
Fingerboard material | rosewood fingerboard |
Fingerboard position markers | parallelogram fingerboard position markers |
General
Finish colors | natural finish |
Finish effects | sunburst finish |
Number of strings | 6 strings |
Electronics
Pickups configuration | 1 single coil pickup |
Controls
Tone controls | 1 tone control |
Volume controls | 1 volume control |