Pickup Position 1: Bridge
Pickup Position 3: Bridge & Neck
Pickup Position 5: Neck
Gibson added a sharp "Venetian" cutaway and a slightly fancier fingerboard to the budget ES®-125 model to create the ES®-175 in 1949. With the addition of a second pickup in 1953, and humbucking pickups in 1957, the ES®-175 quickly became a popular and enduring choice for electric jazz guitarists.
