The 1453 is a Gibson ES-175 style hollow body electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez for 1968. It was produced in Japan.
The 1453 features a full-sized hollow body design with an arched laminated maple top with ƒ holes and multi-layer binding and maple back and mahogany sides with a single Florentine cutaway mated to a set-in one-piece mahogany neck with an open-book headstock design and a 20-fret rosewood fingerboard with binding and mother of pearl block position markers and black side dots. Components include dual Ibanez humbucking pickups with individual volume and tone controls; a height-adjustable rosewood bridge with a T-bar trapeze tailpiece; a bone nut; a black wide bevel 5-ply pickguard, bell gold knobs and chrome individual tuning machines.
