Gibson ES-125

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The Gibson ES-125 is an electric guitar model produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.

Introduced in the early 1940's, the ES-125 was essentially an entry-level archtop electric guitar, equipped with one P-90 single-coil pickup and simplistic controls. The body styling was also quite basic with very little decoration and no cutaway. The unbound rosewood fingerboard initially sported pearl trapezoid inlays; later, it would have dot inlays.

In the mid-1950's, the ES-125T was introduced, which was an entry-level thinline archtop electric guitar based on the original ES-125. It would later feature two P-90 pickups and a sharp cutaway similar to the ES-175. Both the thinline and the regular models would be discontinued by the 1970s.

Notable players of the ES-125 and ES-125T models include Johnny Winter and George Thorogood.