Originally Posted by Minte

Yea..I couldn't help myself. Went back to Daves and snagged this beaut.

copy and pasted from the Gibson site. It's the nicest playing guitar I currently own. It works for everything. The finish is burnt cherry

The ES-335?s design and construction, revolutionary for its day, gave it a ?best of both worlds? appeal that suited it to any imaginable genre of music, from jazz to rock, blues to country. The 1959 ES-335 Dot Reissue accurately retains the original construction, with the solid maple center block for superb sustain and resistance to feedback, and arched laminated maple top, back, and sides for added hollowbody-like warmth. The glued-in quarter-sawn mahogany neck with long tenon has a one-piece rosewood fingerboard with a 12? radius and a width of 1 11/16? at the nut, along with classic 24 ¾? Gibson scale length. In addition to these details, the 1959 ES-335 Dot Reissue also benefits from elements of the Gibson Custom 20th Anniversary Specifications being introduced for 2013. These include more accurate Kluson? Deluxe machine heads, hot-hide glue neck fit, a period-correct Historic Truss Rod assembly with no tubing, accurate body and fingerboard binding color, and Aniline dye for the neck of guitars finished in Faded Cherry, and Gibson Custom?s outstanding new Custom Bucker PAF reproductions. The result is a ?Dot Neck? that is more true to the original of 1959 in look, feel, and tone than ever before.