Championed by Charlie Christian of the Benny Goodman Sextet, the ES-150 played a major role in making the guitar a "lead" instrument. The ES-175’s combination of single cutaway and P90 pickup was one Gibson would repeat in the LP Junior and elsewhere, but the simplicity of the original design, with just a volume and tone knob, twin f-holes and Gibson’s trademark back-angled headstock was attractive in itself. Our Vintage P90s are wound with plain enamel wire, and we add extra mojo by winding them on the same Leesona winder that was used in the 1950s in the old Gibson factory. Both are laminated, P90 equipped, 17 inches wide, no cutaway and rosewood fingerboard. This stunning 74 year old “Script Logo” Gibson Es-150 is in good condition. It Produced higher output, canceled it’s own noise better, and produced less hum. The pictured example is from 1948 and features a P-90 pickup instead of the blade pickup. Both the neck and bridge pickups are drop-in replacements for any traditional Gibson-sized P90 soapbar. The large, heavy pickup (weighing nearly two pounds) was primitive, but is to this day heralded for its smooth, jazzy tone. The double coil design we all known as the ‘humbucker’, was introduced in 1957. In 1950 the P90 transitioned to 6 adjustable poles between two Alnico 5 bar magnets. My understanding is that the ES-150 and ES-250 models were basically L-50s with pickups installed but maybe I'm wrong (a victim of internet hearsay) and they were constructed a little differently. I had a semi-hollow ES-135 back in the mid-90s and so familiar with what P90s are about. Feb 7, 2015 - The Gibson ES-150 electric guitar has an important place in the company's history: it was one of the first successful guitars in the ES line, or the More information Vintage RARE Gibson ES 150 1947 Sunburst P90 Origina Geib Hardshell Case | Reverb.com. The model used for the ES-125 has a string spacing on the neck pickup of 1 15 ⁄ 16 " from high E to low E. The ES-125 also used a tapered dogear cover for their neck position pickups with a thickness of 4/16" on the treble side and 5/16" on the bass side. The ES-300 was the top of the line for electrics immediately post war whereas the ES-150 (post war, not CC unit) was a more economical model (no binding on the neck until 1950 then binding until 1956)). Gibson introduced this style of pickups in their early ES-150 models, which are incredibly rare and iconic guitars today. 1946 GIBSON Es-150 . Rickenbacker pickups first appeared in lap steel electrics in the early '30s and then in the mid '30s, the Gibson ES-150, the first mass marketed electric guitar, was loaded with a unique electromagnetic bar pickup with hexagonal edges that was eventually dubbed the Charlie Christian pickup. 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