Flightless Bird

The Pro is $359. The Solid wood, $799. Is the solid wood worth 2x the price?

I agree with you about getting involved sooner-- but I didn't buy the guitar until 2017. The specs say the top is solid Sitka spruce -- but with what I've learned recently, who can say? What I don't understand is if the material for the back and sides have make so little difference, why is the pro $350 and the Masterbilt solid body 2x as much? One other queestions: When Guitar Center looked up my eons-old receipt, I was told that rather than the Hummingbird-Pro I thought I had purchased, they sent me home with a Hummingbird Studio. Both of them say Pro on the Truss rod cap. Guitar Center is willing to work with me by giving me 10% off the price of a new Master-Bilt -- and nothing for my pro. Is this reasonable? I feel like throwing the pro in the trash can and maybe learning to play the piano. 🙂 HaHa

I am aghast. I purchased a HummingbirdPro . One thing I was careful to shop for -- I thought -- was a solid wood body. And now I learn that the "select mahogany" back and sides of my guitar are -- PLYWOOD? Is this misrepresentation? Am I the only one who thought that "select mahogany" was some kind of special-=grained solid wood? Even now, the Hummingbird Pro is not a bad guitar But in a few years? I wanted to see the sound and quality of the solid wood improve with age. What happens to the quality of glue? I live in the Northwest? Will the adhesive or resin or whatever dissolve in 10 years.? Will the solid Sitka spruce top age and change at the same rate as the plastic side and bottom? Am I looking at warp-age and splintering? If somebody had told me what Epiphone's argot meant at the time, I would have upgraded to the real, wooden pseudo- Hummingbird . Should I mention that the design on the pickguard is starting to wear off, too? Forgive my rampage, but I just found out what "selects" means last night this last night, and I am just heartsick. --SIGH -- I'm curious to know if anyone else has presented this little snafu to Epiphone and with what results