1967 Gibson SG Custom - White vs Gibson Es 335 Dot
The 1967 Gibson SG Custom - White and the Gibson Es 335 Dot are both electric guitars sharing sustaining, fuzzy, dynamic. The 1967 Gibson SG Custom - White leans smooth and warm. The Gibson Es 335 Dot leans tight and transparent.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.52% — moderately similar
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Blues
- Rock
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- sustaining
- fuzzy
- dynamic
- modulated
1967 Gibson SG Custom - White
Gibson · electric guitar
Gibson Es 335 Dot
Gibson · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$2963.83via Reverb
Jimi Hendrix played a white 1967 Gibson SG Custom, a mahogany-bodied, three-humbucker guitar he first used at a Rhode Island Auditorium show in November 1968 and later played, strung for a right-handed guitar despite his left-handed technique, on The Dick Cavett Show on September 9 1969 for a medley of Izabella and Machine Gun. It was also seen at Woodstock. The three humbuckers gave a thicker, more powerful tone than the single-coil Stratocasters most associated with Hendrix, and the white finish has aged to a pale yellow over the decades since.
The Gibson ES-335 Dot is a semi-hollow electric guitar featuring Gibson's classic double-cutaway design with a solid maple center block running through the body, combining the resonance of a hollow-body with the feedback resistance and sustain of a solid-body instrument. Named for its simple dot fingerboard inlays (distinguishing it from fancier ES-335 variants), it delivers the warm, articulate tone that made the platform a defining instrument in blues, jazz, and rock since its 1958 introduction.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Hard Rock
- Experimental
- Psychedelic Rock
- Classic Rock
- Jazz
- Soul
- smooth
- warm
- full
- tight
- transparent
- bright