WARNING: Guitar Sperging ahead. Feel free to skip if you don't care.
I have never been able to figure out his guitar collection.
That red Gibson ES-335 he had for sale wasn't just an American made Gibson it was a custom shop recreation of Jerry Kennedy's guitar.
Jerry Kennedy is a famous Country music producer and session musician.
He built using a standard Bigsby tremolo and parts from a hardware store one of ,if not the first, string benders for guitar.
This guitar has a bender on the B string that bends up and another bender on the high E string that bends down.
These would let you emulate pedal steel guitar sounds on a plain ol' electric guitar.
For this series of custom builds (I think it was limited to 200) Gibson searched hardware and plumbing supply companies nation wide to find New Old Stock parts like those Jerry used to cobble his original bender together.
If you just wanted an ES-335 with 2 benders there are much easier and cheaper ways to do it.
The deal with this guitar was to have one that looked, played and sounded like Jerry's.
Dave just doesn't strike me as a big Country music fan.
My theory is he buys things because they are expensive.
That seems to be the one unifying thread of his collection.
Here is a video about that guitar