Here is a beautiful vintage 1991 Gibson ES 335 Dot in the best finish, Cherry! Build date Feb 4th 1991 in Nashville, Tennessee. We all know how good the 90's Gibson's were, but what makes this one extra special is that it was selected for export to Japan by Yamano, who it is said secured many of the greatest Gibsons of the 90’s & 2000’s. Although built in the USA like all Gibson guitars, this one would have been hand-selected by the Japanese reps from many others to take back to Japan. It’s a genuine Japanese Yamano with all associated Yamano booklet. We brought this one back from Japan ourselves. It’s a good looking 335 with a deep rich cherry red nitrocellulose finish and nice subtle maple flame visible on the top back and sides. There is some nice vintage ageing all over the plastics with the white binding turning off white (which always looks classy against the cherry finish) and the metal hardware has light uniform ageing all over. The nitrocellulose is beautiful and also retains a deep shine. Due to the age you can feel the resonant old growth wood as soon as you pick this up and it’s a solid weighty 335 tipping the scales at just over 4kg. Very nicely balanced and exceptionally resonant. Neck is dead straight truss rod checked and functioning fine, plenty of life left in the frets, which still have the fret-end binding. The original '57 classic pickups sound fantastic. It is fully original and complete. There is some playwear as you’d expect over the decades, light scuffs, scratches and bumps. Plays and sounds great with a comfortable with a ’60 ish profile neck. It is complete with all original Japanese Yamano booklet and its original tan, pink-lined Gibson HSC with silk shroud. Case is functioning fine, latches dulled over the years with combi lock working. A real old Yamano beauty. Buy with confidence, Gas Station Guitars is a Ltd UK company and we offer a no question 14-day refund policy on all our guitars. We are very experienced in shipping our guitars worldwide. At Gas Station Guitars we carefully hand-select all our guitars, if they don’t blow us away on all fronts, we just don’t put them in our shop; if it’s for sale by Gas Station Guitars, you know it’s gonna be pretty special. All pictures you see above are of the actual guitar, and all guitars have been fully checked and are with us in hand, so it’s straight from us to you! Our packaging is very tough and designed to protect equally guitars with hardcases and softcases. This guitar is NOT FOR TRADE or part exchange and we cannot do holds or lay aways. We ship to the E.U, Europe, U.S, Australia, Canada and of course the UK.