Gibson | CS-336 Archtop

The Gibson CS-336 is a semi-acoustic electric guitar manufactured by Gibson Guitar Corporation’s Custom, Art & Historic Division (“CS” is an abbreviation for “Custom Shop”). Introduced in 2001,[1] the CS-336 was the Custom Shop’s first “tonally carved” guitar, meaning that the back, center block, and sides are carved from one single piece of wood (mahogany). This solid block of wood is mated to a carved maple top. After over 100 years, the CS-336 also represented the realization of company founder Orville Gibson’s goal to produce an instrument with one-piece back-and-sides construction.