page_title: Gibson ES-335
section_title: EB-2 and EB-2D
hierarchical_section_title: Gibson ES-335 / Variations / EB-2 and EB-2D
caption_attribution_description: English: A sunburst 1964 Gibson EB-2, converted to an EB-2D by the addition of a humbucking pickup at the bridge.
context_page_description: The Gibson ES-335 is the world's first commercial semi-hollowbody electric guitar, sometimes known as "thinline hollow-body" or semi-acoustic. Released by the Gibson Guitar Corporation as part of its ES series in 1958, it is neither fully hollow nor fully solid; instead, a solid maple wood block runs through the center of its body. The side "wings" formed by the two "cutaways" into its upper bouts are hollow, and the top has two violin-style f-holes over the hollow chambers. Since its release, Gibson has released numerous variations of and other models based on the design of the ES-335.
  Notable users of the ES-335 or one of its variations include Chuck Berry, Alvin Lee, Larry Carlton, Elliott Smith, Noel Gallagher, Marty McFly, portrayed by Michael J. Fox in Back To The Future, Carl Wilson, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Chuck Brown, and Alex Lifeson.
context_section_description: The EB-2 was first produced in 1958 as the bass version of the ES-335. Having the same body as the ES-335, it held a 30.5" scale neck and hardware borrowed directly from the Gibson EB-0.The pickup was actually a single coil with the polepieces on the lower edge of the black cover until mid 1959.The humbucking pickup has the poles in the center of a black cover. In 1959, a "baritone-switch" was added to filter the output from the neck humbucker and give it more of a guitar-like sound. The EB-2 was discontinued at the end of 1961, being replaced by the EB-3. Due to a boom in the use of the EB-2 and its sibling, the Epiphone Rivoli, in the Merseybeat in England in the early sixties, production restarted in 1964, with a 2-pickup version called the EB-2D being added to the line in 1966. In 1972 the EB-2 line was discontinued.
caption: Gibson EB-2
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