meanstreak

I have an older Epiphone Hummingbird made in Korea in 1994. It's the solid top, a nice looking guitar and sound is OK but I've just not played it at all in many years now since I've gotten a few Masterbilt all-solid guitars. I just ordered a new inspired by Gibson Hummingbird and looking forward to it!

Man I just ordered myself one of these yesterday and can't wait! Went ahead and got an open box model from Guitar Center website for $703. Figured it must either be a floor model or a customer return. I'm happy to trade a couple little marks on it for $100 off!

I have a black Sheraton II like that one, looks identical other than the fact that I'm a heretic and changed all the gold hardware to chrome/nickel! About to order a new pickguard as well!

Anyone seen one in person yet? https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/EMTFITAGH--epiphone-masterbilt-frontier-iced-tea-aged-gloss

I just tried one for the first time yesterday. It was the cutaway songbird/hummingbird type. Played and sounded great! I want one now lol

I'd say in 9/10 condition and the pickup and case added it's prob worth around $500 now.

100% agree! It's the reason I'm so fond of the Masterbilt EF-500!

the majority of Gibson acoustics are wide-nut and short scale, the majority of Epiphone acoustics are thin-nut and long scale. Leads to looking a bit different very often.

Howdy! What part of the UK are you in? I lived in Hertfordshire for 5 years from 05-10 and miss it quite a bit!

Cool, thanks for checking it out. So by fail do you think it's possible there was supposed to be only one "2" and the "222" in the middle is a misprint?

Might as well check out two others -

Ya I was wondering what the deal is. But I didn't mistype it!

How about a Masterbilt EF-500RVS serial G0402220921 ? guitar dater project doesn't recognize.

ya that is pretty cool. I hear the commercials about Tito's vodka and how it beat all other vodkas in a competition but I have yet to try it. Anyway I have a PR-100 from many years ago and I always just assumed it's the same as the DR-100 just a diff name now. Anyway ya it was set up perfectly and sounds pretty nice for a $100 guitar. I even put 13's on mine and it holds up just fine.

Ya the reason I was thinking about getting one now is because they started making them with solid tops again in the last couple of years. Of course, musicians friend says it's a select spruce top lol. I would rather not buy one without the solid top so I guess I'll just wait an see about these new models you guys are mentioning.

I was thinking about buying a new EJ-200, but the Epi website says they are out of production!? Anyone know what's up with that?