I'm with you Brother, I leave my Vintage Guitars at Home these days & play out with some really good Guitars that can be easily & relatively inexpensively replaced. Even the poly doesn’t bug me - but my hands don’t sweat much.Īll you HAVE to do is put reasonable pickups in it instead of the crazy overwound stocks. It sounds wonderful through a tweed for old-school blues. And it doesn’t have a Brazilian fingerboard, so I don’t have to worry about crossing borders with it (which I do often, living where I do - Germany/Switzerland/France). It’s fun to play, it looks good, it sounds good, I’m not plunged into deep depression when I ding it, nobody is going to steal it I don’t have to spend my breaks wondering if my guitar will be on stage when I get back.

On stage in a bar with a drummer and you won’t hear much difference. Everything except the trapeze, the bridge bushings, and the frets.ĭoes it measure up now? No. The guitar is available in Heritage Cherry, Ebony and Alpine White for 449. Epiphone Deluxe tuners and a classic batwing pickguard.

Vintage-voiced Fralin P90s, pots, switch, jack, nut, bridge, tuners. Similar in shape to the ES-335 or Casino but with a reduced body size, the ES-339 PRO features custom wound Alnico Classic PRO humbucker pickups with coil-tapping plus Epiphone Deluxe tuners. How could it? It hasn’t been vibrated for half a century.īut I viewed the Epi as a platform and changed everything on it. It sports a 5-layer maple-birch body, Gibson P-90 pickups, 'short' headstock, bullet trussrod cover, tortoiseshell pickguard, and pre-Gibson era Epiphone badge. I didn’t expect the Casino to measure up, and of course it didn’t. The 125 is an amazing guitar it sounds huge. I bought it because I didn’t want to gig anymore with my going-on-sixty-year-old ES-125TDC - it’s getting a bit delicate. We all know a Chinese (or Korean) Epiphone is not a Gibson.

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