USED - Gibson Historic Collection 1993 Es295 With Bigsby

Vintage nitrocellulose gold-finished maple body, mahogany neck, rosewood fretboard with parallelogram inlays, Gibson Deluxe tuners, twin P-90 pickups, Bigsby vibrato tailpiece, a gold floral patterned pickguard, and the original Gibson hard case. the guitar is in amazing condition with the exception of a slight mark on the back of the body where the nitro has reacted with a guitar stand.

From the very beginning since scotty moore ( guitarist of elvis presley ) played on the es-295 , it was coined as the ultimate rockabilly guitar , the guitar was also considered as a prestigious 
version of the es-175 but with 2 soap bar pickups .
 
Scotty moore and elvis presley playing guitar In 1957 , gibson replaced the 2 p90 pickups with 2 gold plated humbuckers to comply and blend with the gold finish .
Although the gibson es-295 guitars were short lived in 1958 , they set the stage for the succesful Gibson es-175d models which were introduced a year later with 2 p90 pickups, natrural or sunburst 
finishes ,and are still in production today.
 
In 1990 gibson introduced a reissue with a gold finish 2 p90 pickups , bigsby and called it the 
Gibson es-295 reissue , discontinued in 1993 .Then in 1993 they introduced a more prestige version with an antique gold finish , bigsby and 2-p90s 
, and named it the es-295 '52 historic collection , discontinued in 2000 .