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Re: Joe Bonamassa Signature ES-335 Registry

Chuck Fleming
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Picked up on 5/4/2012

Chuck Fleming
Bloomington, Indiana

Guitars: Gibson Custom Shop Joe Bonamassa Es-335, Gibson JBLP Studio Gold Top, Epiphone JBLP Gold Top, Gibson Les Paul "Standard" Gold Top, 2 Gibson ES 339's,Carvin (Self Built), Gibson SG Standard, Fender Strat, Fender Tele, Ibanez (Something or other), Yamaha Acoustic.
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Re: Joe Bonamassa Signature ES-335 Registry

Congrats Chuck!  Worth the wait?

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Re: Joe Bonamassa Signature ES-335 Registry

jclark42796 wrote:

Congrats Chuck!  Worth the wait?


Yes it was, Man, I in love all over again!:)

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Guitars: Gibson Custom Shop Joe Bonamassa Es-335, Gibson JBLP Studio Gold Top, Epiphone JBLP Gold Top, Gibson Les Paul "Standard" Gold Top, 2 Gibson ES 339's,Carvin (Self Built), Gibson SG Standard, Fender Strat, Fender Tele, Ibanez (Something or other), Yamaha Acoustic.
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Re: Joe Bonamassa Signature ES-335 Registry

I picked up #24 this morning from the UPS depot. So far so pretty fantastic. I like the neck shape a lot...color is awesome...smells good...howls like a wild monkey.

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Re: Joe Bonamassa Signature ES-335 Registry

troyad wrote:

I picked up #24 this morning from the UPS depot. So far so pretty fantastic. I like the neck shape a lot...color is awesome...smells good...howls like a wild monkey.

Wow like a wild monkey!!!!! I will need to go listen to a wild monkey howl.
Congrats
Cheers Ron

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Re: Joe Bonamassa Signature ES-335 Registry

Mine arrived, finally. #035.

GC wasn't sure when mine would ship, so the manager at the local store found one in California. They agreed to 3-day ship so I'd have it this week. Held my breath and crossed my fingers. Got the call this morning that it arrived, so made arrangements to pick up at lunchtime.
When I get there the manager said he was tracking, found out someone dropped the ball about 3-day shipping. Probably wouldn't have arrived until Monday or Tuesday.

Knowing how badly I wanted it, he had the available one in Columbus overnighted. Great guy!

So I HAD to try it out at the store. Wow, nice...I'll definitely be putting it through its paces later today!!

Sadly the meet-and-greet was full, so I'll have to wait until after the concert to get mine signed.

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Re: Joe Bonamassa Signature ES-335 Registry

TJNies - man, getting every one of these in hand has been an odyssey - but you showed tenacity and made it!

By the way when I asked Joe why the knobs on the 335 was different only on the neck pickup "tone" knob, he said because the shiny label on top of only that one has fallen off on his - so Gibson recreated it that way.  Also, he confirmed that he uses all steel saddles on his ES-335.

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Re: Joe Bonamassa Signature ES-335 Registry

TJNies wrote:

Mine arrived, finally. #035.

GC wasn't sure when mine would ship, so the manager at the local store found one in California. They agreed to 3-day ship so I'd have it this week. Held my breath and crossed my fingers. Got the call this morning that it arrived, so made arrangements to pick up at lunchtime.
When I get there the manager said he was tracking, found out someone dropped the ball about 3-day shipping. Probably wouldn't have arrived until Monday or Tuesday.

Knowing how badly I wanted it, he had the available one in Columbus overnighted. Great guy!

So I HAD to try it out at the store. Wow, nice...I'll definitely be putting it through its paces later today!!

Sadly the meet-and-greet was full, so I'll have to wait until after the concert to get mine signed.

If it makes you feel any better, I just got notified this afternoon that I was bumped from the meet-n-greet so I won't be showing Joe my ES-335.  Bigger problems in the world and I'm looking forward to the show, but just a little bitter for such late notice.

ES-335 #37
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Re: Joe Bonamassa Signature ES-335 Registry

jclark42796 wrote:
TJNies wrote:

Mine arrived, finally. #035.

GC wasn't sure when mine would ship, so the manager at the local store found one in California. They agreed to 3-day ship so I'd have it this week. Held my breath and crossed my fingers. Got the call this morning that it arrived, so made arrangements to pick up at lunchtime.
When I get there the manager said he was tracking, found out someone dropped the ball about 3-day shipping. Probably wouldn't have arrived until Monday or Tuesday.

Knowing how badly I wanted it, he had the available one in Columbus overnighted. Great guy!

So I HAD to try it out at the store. Wow, nice...I'll definitely be putting it through its paces later today!!

Sadly the meet-and-greet was full, so I'll have to wait until after the concert to get mine signed.

If it makes you feel any better, I just got notified this afternoon that I was bumped from the meet-n-greet so I won't be showing Joe my ES-335.  Bigger problems in the world and I'm looking forward to the show, but just a little bitter for such late notice.

I'd show up anyway in case of no-shows. Show Clancy the git and hope for a reprieve. Good luck! smile

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Re: Joe Bonamassa Signature ES-335 Registry

RickB wrote:
jclark42796 wrote:
TJNies wrote:

Mine arrived, finally. #035.

GC wasn't sure when mine would ship, so the manager at the local store found one in California. They agreed to 3-day ship so I'd have it this week. Held my breath and crossed my fingers. Got the call this morning that it arrived, so made arrangements to pick up at lunchtime.
When I get there the manager said he was tracking, found out someone dropped the ball about 3-day shipping. Probably wouldn't have arrived until Monday or Tuesday.

Knowing how badly I wanted it, he had the available one in Columbus overnighted. Great guy!

So I HAD to try it out at the store. Wow, nice...I'll definitely be putting it through its paces later today!!

Sadly the meet-and-greet was full, so I'll have to wait until after the concert to get mine signed.

If it makes you feel any better, I just got notified this afternoon that I was bumped from the meet-n-greet so I won't be showing Joe my ES-335.  Bigger problems in the world and I'm looking forward to the show, but just a little bitter for such late notice.

I'd show up anyway in case of no-shows. Show Clancy the git and hope for a reprieve. Good luck! smile

Thanks Rick, I might just do that.

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Re: Joe Bonamassa Signature ES-335 Registry

TJNies wrote:

Mine arrived, finally. #035.

GC wasn't sure when mine would ship, so the manager at the local store found one in California. They agreed to 3-day ship so I'd have it this week. Held my breath and crossed my fingers. Got the call this morning that it arrived, so made arrangements to pick up at lunchtime.
When I get there the manager said he was tracking, found out someone dropped the ball about 3-day shipping. Probably wouldn't have arrived until Monday or Tuesday.

Knowing how badly I wanted it, he had the available one in Columbus overnighted. Great guy!

So I HAD to try it out at the store. Wow, nice...I'll definitely be putting it through its paces later today!!

Sadly the meet-and-greet was full, so I'll have to wait until after the concert to get mine signed.

Good luck getting it signed after the show TJ! I would try to get in anyway. They let a guy in at the Indy show because of a misunderstanding so he could get his Bona Burst signed. It's worth a try! Good luck Buddy! I hope it all works out!

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Re: Joe Bonamassa Signature ES-335 Registry

Thanks guys. Termites!? Hmmm...

Jclark do you know where the meet-and-greet is supposed to happen at the Benedum? Maybe I'll take my chances.
Also, where are your seats? I'm in the balcony, but close to front, great sightlines there.

Can't really complain that I didn't get in, was late to request, and I hear the lithographs (& accompanying seats with M'N'G availability) sold out pretty quickly for the Pgh show.

Boy, playing this more, amazed at the gain the pickups have! I'm just using my '65 VibroChamp to start, but wow, no OD pedal necessary. Have to plug into the Maz18 next.

Got to playing some songs I would normally just use an acoustic. For instance, Seagull by Bad Company. Just learned it, and my vocal range fits the song. Sounds excellent on the JB 335!

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Hey everyone. I got number 51!

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Re: Joe Bonamassa Signature ES-335 Registry

TJNies wrote:

Thanks guys. Termites!? Hmmm...

Jclark do you know where the meet-and-greet is supposed to happen at the Benedum? Maybe I'll take my chances.
Also, where are your seats? I'm in the balcony, but close to front, great sightlines there.

Can't really complain that I didn't get in, was late to request, and I hear the lithographs (& accompanying seats with M'N'G availability) sold out pretty quickly for the Pgh show.

Boy, playing this more, amazed at the gain the pickups have! I'm just using my '65 VibroChamp to start, but wow, no OD pedal necessary. Have to plug into the Maz18 next.

Got to playing some songs I would normally just use an acoustic. For instance, Seagull by Bad Company. Just learned it, and my vocal range fits the song. Sounds excellent on the JB 335!

Sorry a little late to the reply.  I'm glad you're loving your guitar, it really is a nice guitar, I have no complaints!  The '57s are sweet pickups.

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Jimmy wrote:

Hey everyone. I got number 51!

Congrats Jimmy!  You got it from Wildwood, right?  Whatcha think so far?

Jim

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jclark42796 wrote:
Jimmy wrote:

Hey everyone. I got number 51!

Congrats Jimmy!  You got it from Wildwood, right?  Whatcha think so far?

Jim


Congrats Jimmy! How do you like it so far?

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Guitars: Gibson Custom Shop Joe Bonamassa Es-335, Gibson JBLP Studio Gold Top, Epiphone JBLP Gold Top, Gibson Les Paul "Standard" Gold Top, 2 Gibson ES 339's,Carvin (Self Built), Gibson SG Standard, Fender Strat, Fender Tele, Ibanez (Something or other), Yamaha Acoustic.

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I'm enjoying it a lot. I tweaked the setup a little bit. I slapped a set of Super Slinkys on and raised the string height on low and high e to 2 mm from the 12th fret to string bottom. It's definitely a cool guitar. It's got a lot more honk than my Bonaburst and its even fun to play unplugged late at night.

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Re: Joe Bonamassa Signature ES-335 Registry

Ok...so who actually knows the full detail with this guitar? I thought I'd heard, from JB himself, they were making 50 and it was a GC exclusive. Now we have someone who got #51 from Wildwood? Why is there so little info about these FANTASTIC guitars?