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These guitars are built at the Gibson Memphis Custom Shop, and are very popular with working musicians who want a more compact instrument. The ES-339 also features the 'Memphis Tone Circuit', which adds a .001uF capacitor and a low-value resistor (150-300k ohms) between the input and middle lugs of the volume pot. This circuit helps retain treble when turning down the volume control.
These guitars are built at the Gibson Memphis Custom Shop.
This cherry-finish example dates to 2011, and is in excellent original condition. The original case is in similarly great condition.
A note about Gibson Custom Shop serial numbers:
Gibson has used many, and varied, serial numbering schemes, changing over the years and from plant to plant. Custom Shop instruments like these ES-339 models from the Gibson Memphis plant have used two schemes, one with CS and five digits and another, introduced around 2010, with CS and six digits. The CS+5 scheme is CS YRRRR. So, the first digit (Y) is the year and the remaining four (RRRR) are the production number. The CS+6 scheme is CS YXRRR. Here, the first digit (Y) is the year, the second (X) identifies the Gibson plant - 5 for Memphis - and the remaining four (RRRR) are the production number. The single digit for the year does mean that the numbers will repeat every decade, so other cues will have to be used to determine exact dates.
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