My first guitar ever and the reason to play guitar was a cheap Gibson SG copy. I was always jealous of my friend who could play better and had a Strat copy. I finally bought an SG now since it has a unique distorted sound. The few times I will convert into a Hardrocker this is a great instrument. I think it is a fine instrument, although I can't tell since it is the only one I played since my youthdays. Definetly better than my copy back then lol! It is very resonant acoustically and great to play after I made some corrections to lower the strings. The guitar was not played much and serves me for studiowork.

3'100 SFr

I bought this guitar against all the rules of vintage collecting. This guitar has been messed with. Someone even tried to fake the serialnumber into an early 60 one. I bought it from Rivington Guitars in New York who advertised it as such.

It was also declared as "outstanding" which obviously wasn't meant for collecting or optical reasons. I do agree with them that it is outstanding  on behalf of playing comfort, resonance and sound. Considering the market value it was rather expensive, since you get collector items a little above the price I paid. But lets face it: you won't get a guitar like this really cheaper unless it doesn't have these player qualities. There is no way you will get a Custom Shop guitar to sound like this one. In that respect it was a bargain, since any CC is above this price category.

I really love her and I am gratefull I got it right on my first try. Yes this is the first ES 335 I own and obviously it is

NOT FOR SALE

I have been a huge Fender Fan since I picked up my first guitar over 40 years ago. For recording reasons I keep some other guitars around. I was lucky to own a CC1 which I had to sell. I loved the dynamics and resonance of it. It was a superiour LP although it still kept sounding "newish". After that I got to play some other CC's that didn't really find the way into my heart. So I took the shot at this one with precaution. I was convinced that it would be a good guitar in the range of the R9 below which I like a lot. I knew CC's were a big money market and not all the instruments were as superiour as their prices. To make things short: this one is an absolute killer. I never knew that one day I might prefer the clean sound of a Gibson LP to the sound of my dear Strats and Teles... here we go. I am actually reconsidering this attitude, because this guitar is so resonant, sounds and feels like heaven, is completly worn in, unfolding this great vintage sound I look in guitars for. I never played a new Fender that sounded as vintage as this CC 29. I simply love it. The preowner had swaped the original 57 PU to Bare Knuckle PU. I told him to swap them back but he talked me into trying them first. I don't know how these 57 PUs sound but they will make their living in the Lipton case that comes with this treasure of a guitar. This guitar sounds so damn good that there will be no trials on this one. So this one most likely will stay for a long time here.

8'800 SFr