ES-125 CD - Cutaway The unusual all around performance, appearance and value of the ES-125CD has made this model one of Gibsons most popular guitars. The following description is taken from the 1970 Gibson electric acoustics catalog. Only 556 of these guitars were ever made and shipped by Gibson. In June 1965, the ES-125C was listed at 240, the ES-125CD 305, and the ES-175D 315. However, it didn’t make sense to the buying public, who went-on buying 125s and the 130/135 was discontinued in 1958 after just four years of production. 1956 Gibson ES-125 SOLD - YouTube Selling my 1956 Gibson ES-125 The Gibson ES-125 is an archtop, hollow body electric guitar model that was produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.Introduce. ’56 marked the height of the popularity of the 125 model – remember the cutaways and thinlines weren’t introduced until the 1960s – and it must have made sense to Gibson to offer the ‘student model’ 125 and the upmarket alternative the 130 / 135. To give you an idea of the scarcity of this model, just take a look at the production numbers for 1956: The limited production of Gibson’s ES135 model makes it more interesting from a collector’s point of view. I mean, everyone’s got a 125 jazz box right, but how many people have a 135 or 130? The ES-125 was updated again in 1950 with an adjustable P-90 pickup and dot inlays. The person told me it had all of the characteristics of a ES-125 except for the fact it has the. I recently brought it to a guitar store to be identified. it was left to me by my grandfather that purchased it new in Germany while serving in the Army. Upon its reintroduction in 1946, the ES-125 changed in a number of ways including a wider body, a new P-90 pickup, and trapezoid inlays. I just inherited a what I believe is a 1956 Gibson archtop ES-125. Interestingly, the ES-135 model name was to get used again later in the century, but that’s another story. The ES-125 evolved out of the ES-100 in 1941 and was produced until 1942. The ES-135 was introduced in 1954 as the ES-130, then renamed the ES-135 in 1956. Though this is just one of many iterations of the ES-125 model, the thinline Gibson ES-125T played an important role in the evolution of the guitar. It had a bound neck, trapeze fret inlays and a 5-ply pickguard – fancy indeed! The ES-125T was a thinline archtop that sported only one pickup: Gibsons famous P-90. Yes, it’s a lot like an ES-125 but it cost $10 more back in the day, and was considered the ‘upmarket’ version.