Hello!

[Klaus Kemmerling]

Hello,
I am new to this forum and just wanted to say hello!
I have a 1982 ES-335 Dot (natural/blonde) that I bought new in 1983. It plays and sounds very nice.

Greetings from Cologne/Germany
Klaus

[Wally]

Welcome to the GDPRI! Congratulations on playing a greag GIbson. I am wanting a Dot RI someday in the future. I have '66 ES-345TDC that I bought new in '67. She's a beauty....I only wish the neck had the width of the older ones as with the RI's.

[Emmitt O.]

...............to this board. It is kind of slow these days. Perhaps we can find ways to perk up the traffic. Welcome aboard.

Emmitt O.

[gibson guy]

Hi Klaus. Welcome! Don't see too many blonde 335's, but the few I've seen have been awfully nice. My 135 is a blonde with gold hardware and knobs, and sometimes I like to just look at it! Nothin' beats a Gibson semi in my book, much as I love other guitars.

[Klaus Kemmerling]

Hello,
and thank you for your notes.

As far as I know the (1982) ES-335 Dot was some kind of forerunner of the later Reissue models.
There are some differences to the later RIs. Mine has a 3-piece mahogany neck that is not as thin as the RI-necks. The maple top of the body isn't figuered and the pickups are not the '57 classics. but the pickups are very nice sounding indeed. However I swapped pickups several times - and always returned to the originally pickups after some weeks or month.
When i boiught my guitar the finish was really *natural*. Now it has faded to a yellow colour almost like the real vintage models from the 60s.
Regards,
Klaus

[Wally]

Klaus, it sounds like you have the bigger neck as would have been on the '58-'59 335's. How about fret size? I am figuring that you have the jumbo's.
By 3-piece neck, do you mean including the wings at the headstock, or is the shaft of the neck laminated?

[Klaus Kemmerling]

Hello Wally,
the neck itself is three piece. plus the little wings at the headsock.
The frets are not jumbo size. They are quite flat. I have a 1994 LP Standard. It's frets are much higher; the width seems to be almost the same. Also the LP neck is fatter than the neck of my ES-335.
Klaus