frostyjr2
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Thanks so much!That’s a very nice guitar. My son had a friend that let him use an older es , I forget what one but it had a full size body, same pickup.
That pickup was velvet and versatile.
The guitar looks pricey . Sounds good .
The ES-140 is basically a scaled-down ES-175, with the same pressed wood laminate top and Florentine cutaway but with less fancy appointments (no binding on the neck, dot position markers instead of blocks or traps, and no inlay on the headstock, just a 'Gibson' decal), a 14" lower bout, and a 22" scale length.
Gibson offered it as a 'student model' from 1950 to 1968; the 'T' ('thinline') version replaced the full-bodied one in 1956.
The 22" scale length makes the ES-140 less desirable in general from a purely practical standpoint for many players, although Tal Farlow famously used a full-body ES-140 for some time*, finding that the combination of the shorter scale and his unusually large hands** allowed him to play chord voicings which would have been difficult or even impossible stretches on a full scale guitar).

Check out that 'strap' too.
It looks like the sort of twine that cake boxes are tied up with, passing from a point on the tailpiece over the face of the lower bout, up behind him, around his neck, then down behind the guitar neck before snaking around the heel, out the face side of the cutaway, over the upper bout and finally tied off to the scratchplate mounting bracket.
Even though these small fully hollow guitars are pretty light, i can't see how that could have been too comfortable over any extended period.
* Gibson ES-140 Tal Farlow Little Red (you can read more about his guitar there)
**( ... he even got the nickname 'The Octopus', because of those large hands and his long, agile fingers)
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