Jazz legend Herb Ellis took a hefty slice of Charlie Christian-style bebop and sprinkled on some blues to create his own classic jazz guitar style in the 1950s. Through his years with the Oscar Peterson Trio and as a soloist, his guitar of choice has been a single-pickup ES-175, but now Gibson has dressed up Herb's signature model with split-parallelogram inlays, a pair of '57 Classic humbucking pickups and special f-hole baffles.

Body
Laminated curl maple body with no center block
Neck/Profile
Mahogany
Fingerboard/Inlay
Rosewood/Pearloid Parallelogram
Scale/Nut Width
24^3/4"/1^11/16"
Binding
Multi-ply body top, single-ply back of body and fingerboard
Bridge/Tailpiece
ABR/ES-165 Wire trapeze
Hardware
Nickel hardware, optional gold
Pickups
Two '57 Classic humbuckers
Controls
Two volume, Two tone, three-way selector switch
Strings
Brite Wires .010-.046

Finish
Wine Red , Vintage Sunburst , Light Burst , Bullion Gold