timewaster1700

Good call on the pole piece height. I raised the poles pieces a bunch on three strings. May have gone too high. Yeah I don't blame you in not wanting to drill holes and make a permanent modification of your beautiful casino. I wouldn't want to drill on mine either. Enjoy! We are truly blessed and privileged to get to own such wonderful instruments 🙂

I can see how that would be really hard to do. I would struggle with that too. Making a permanent modification to it. The bigsby does seem to change the vibe of an ES guitar too so I get it. Yeah this guitar sounds and plays so well and is so versatile I'm surprised its not a more popular model!

Thanks for posting! I agree this new USA made casino is incredible. I'm in love. I can't believe how versatile it is how good it sounds and plays. I've tinkered with a vintage casino in a guitar shop and a few 330's that were newer and I think one vintage one. All of them were hard to play. The chinese casinos were pretty easy to play but always felt cheap to me. This USA made casino feels very nice (far from cheap) and has a buttery feel to its playing. I love that the neck is a little bigger than most guitars nowadays and I love that they went with 1 11/16" nut width instead of the thin vintage ones. Honestly they did an awesome job with this model. I think it's highly underrated.

Recently got a used USA made Epiphone casino in royal tan. Dang what an awesome guitar this has been so far. Did some minor setup tweaking and it plays like butter. Loving the variety of sounds I can get out of these P90's with the hollow body: everything from almost acoustic sounding cleans to over the top blow your amp up fuzz tones sound great. I've always heard P90's can really rip and can be almost as high of output as an average humbucker but I'm finding these don't quite have that much output. They do have a lot more output than my Strat pickups though but now as much as my Les Paul Standard with humbuckers. I do think I might like a tough more output from the bridge pup which got me researching and I found a lot of people were saying P90's should be put really close to the strings, especially the bridge for the best tone. One article here: https://wgsusa.com/node/2730 suggests 2.6 mm for the low E string! They don't say where this is measured from though. Now it's tricky to measure the height because the bridge pickup on a casino is at an angle but at the closest point on the cover from the low E string when I press the last fret I'm about 4 mm away. If I measure from the top of where I currently have the pole piece set (which is obviously in the middle of the pickup) I'm right about 2.6 mm away from my low E string. Should I be looking into shims? If so are there any that don't look ridiculous with Nickel covered dogears? I know some will suggest swapping to black covers but I don't like the black as well. I like the look of the Nickel on my Royal tan and for years have wanted that Nickel dogear P90 look on an ES style guitar so I really want to keep that vibe going.

Thanks for the response!

So I'm not talking about "Royal Tan" vs "Vintage Sunburst". I'm saying within the "Vintage Sunburst" some of them seem to be two color and some three when you see them in person.

Has anyone noticed there are some significant color variations among some of these new USA made Epiphone Casinos. The Epiphone website shows a 3 color Sunburst but I've noticed as you shop online and look at review videos it varies. Some of them look like 2 color bursts and some seems to have the red added in as well. Am I crazy? Is Gibson artisans just making the decision to do 2 or 3 colors on the fly as they assemble these or did they maybe start 2 color and are now 3 color? Anyone know? Thanks