TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
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Body & Hardware
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Plain maple top, back and rims
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W 16" (406.4 mm)x L19" (482.6 mm)x D 1 3/4" (44.45 mm)
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Single-ply
cream binding on top and back Nickel hardware
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ABR-1 bridge,
lightweight aluminum stobar tailpiece
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Neck & Headstock
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1-piece
mahogany neck w/long neck tenon
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22 fret
rosewood fingerboard
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Pearioid dot inlays
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Single-ply
cream binding
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1959
rounded neck profile
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24 3/4"
(628 mm) scale length, 1 11/16" (42 mm) nut width
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Holly headstock
veneer
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Vintage tulip
tuners
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Electronics & Strings
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57 Classic humbuckng pickups
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2 volume, 2
tone, 3-way selector switch
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Vintage Reissue
.010 strings
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Ebony
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Note: In 1980, King joined the Gibson family as a signature artist, and has
played a custom-built ebony ES-355 ever since. Today’s B.B. King
Lucille from Gibson Custom is made to exactly the same specifications
as the guitar played by King himself.
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