In the hardtail variant, from around 1965, the stopbar was replaced with a trapeze tailpiece like that used on fully hollow archtop electrics. In 1962, Gibson began phasing out the hallowed PAF ...

First unveiled in 1959, the ES-330 distinguished itself from the similarly shaped ES-335 with a pair of Dogear P-90s, the absence of a wood center block, and a Trapeze tailpiece, though arguably ...