Epiphone BB King Lucille Ebony vs Gibson Es 335 Dot
The Epiphone BB King Lucille Ebony and the Gibson Es 335 Dot are both electric guitars sharing sustaining, dynamic, transparent. The Epiphone BB King Lucille Ebony leans warm and smooth. The Gibson Es 335 Dot leans tight and bright. Current prices: $549 vs $2963.83.
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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.55% — moderately similar
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Soul
- Jazz
- Blues
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- sustaining
- dynamic
- transparent
Epiphone BB King Lucille Ebony
Epiphone · 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.$549via Reverb
$2963.83via Reverb
The Epiphone B.B. King Lucille in ebony finish is a production version of the semi-hollow ES-355-style guitar B.B. King played throughout his career and named Lucille, following an incident in 1949 when he rescued his guitar from a burning venue that caught fire during a fight over a woman of that name. From then on King named every guitar he owned Lucille as a reminder never to risk his life over such a fight again. The Epiphone version brings that specification to a more accessible price point than the Gibson original King actually played.
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.- Metal
- Smooth Jazz
- Hard Rock
- Classic Rock
- Rock
- warm
- smooth
- full
- tight
- bright