1965 Gibson ES-120T

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Today, Lawman Guitars is Presenting...

A beautiful and all original 1965 Gibson ES-120T with the original Gibson Soft Shell case!
This guitar is just outstanding. Only one ding we could point out on the headstock. See pic 11. Other than that, only very slight scratches that have to been searched out to see. This guitar is in excellent shape..especially for a 1965.

We had it checked out by our Tech and it really didn't require much work. We cleaned it up and put a new set of 10's on it. It had 9's which were way too whippy in my opinion for this guitar. If I was to play it as my own, I would probably put 11's on it... See what you think! This guitar plays as well as any guitar we have ever had. Plenty of room to raise or lower the action. The neck angle is absolutely perfect. We checked the truss rod and we think we may have been the first to take the cover off. The paint was still on the truss rod! Check out those frets. They look hardly used...The top is still in beautiful shape. The sunburst is still nice and bright. I don't think it has had much solar on it. Check out the Brazillian Rosewood fretboard. I have not seen one with that much character. Its beautiful! ...Such a cool look. This guitar has the original nut, bridge, tailpiece, knobs, Kluson Tuners and even the original Pickguard. Those are always missing or broken. We were so happy to see that this pickguard is perfect. We have seen many broken up or missing altogether on this model...check those pics!


What can you say about the vintage Single Coil Pickups... Incredible sounding...need I say more? Anyone who has ever experienced these vintage Gibson Pickups will tell you, they are awesome sounding... I will not dispute that. They sound great!


Set up great and new 10 gauge strings from our Techs... It plays wonderful with awesome low action. The nut measures 1 5/8 inches and it has a 24 1/2 inch scale neck... The neck is a nice medium C profile and while it has one of the thinner Gibson necks, it is not one of the super skinny necks...I love it!

Check out the original soft shell case. Quite a survivor after all these years. Is it a Gibson case? YES!! We can tell from the appearance and brown interior. All latches and original handle are present. All three hinges are there but the middle leather hinge is loose. Even the accessory box is still with this awesome case. Lid is there, but of course, it's taped in. We had to use our glue gun and some reinforcement here and there but its back in vintage shape!... Happy its still there. Cool Case for this awesome guitar!


Beautiful, but vintage and used so its sold as is no returns. However, I have been hand picking my customers guitars for over 20 years now and they all loved the guitars I found for them. This incredible Gibson will certainly not be an exception.

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