The pickup was a single coil P90, with black bakelite 'dog ear' cover.īy the end of the 1960s, a decision had been made to move Epiphone guitar production from the USA (at the Kalamazoo plant where Gibson guitars were made), to Matsumoto in Japan, creating a line of guitars and basses significantly less expensive than the USA-built models (actually less than half the price). Likewise it had a free-floating rosewood bridge, though with a simpler trapeze style tailpiece.
The body profile resembled that of the ES-175: 16 1/4" x 20 1/4" with the sharp Florentine cutaway. The ES-125TC and TDC guitars were both 1 3/4" thin, and completely hollow there was no maple center block, as was the case with some other thinlines of the time, such as the ES-335TD. All instruments were built at Gibsons Kalamazoo plant, in Michigan, USA. Finally, in 1965, a cutaway was added to the full body ES-125, the ES-125C.
C stands for cutaway, not Cherry which it denotes on some other Gibson instruments.
Then in 1960, two single cutaway versions, with either one (the ES-125TC, as is the subject of this page) or two pickups (the ES-125TDC). Gibson first produced the ES-125 in the 1940s, but in the 1950s and 1960s it morphed into numerous variants: firstly a thinline non-cutaway version, the ES-125T in 1956 (T stands for thinline), followed by the double pickup version ES-125TD the next year (D for double pickup).
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