Mercuryjones

Just purchased a Custom shop, Cherry ‘58 reissue Les Paul Jr DC from a Gibson dealer. It’s turned up with scuff marks, dings, nicks & scrapes all over the front & back of the guitar. And where the neck tenon is, really bad polish marks running at 90 degrees across the exposed part of the tenon. The guitars was sold as new & was supposedly kept in a glass case in the shop!!! Was also wondering, if the guitar should have also had a protective plastic sheet over the pick guard & the wiring cavity on the back? The guitar plays perfectly, but the condition it has turned up is terrible for the amount of $ I paid for a supposedly new Custom shop guitar.

Revolution Six, original Epiphone mini humbuckers are wound & have a far higher output than the Gibson equivalent. I know a few people who have swapped out the mini's in they're Les Paul Deluxe & had the Epiphone ones put in!!!

Sorry, I made a mistake, I meant to say, the only thing similar, with the Wilshire, is the basic shape, pretty much everything is changed or different!!!

To pohatu771 & mihcmac, a big thanks for your reply!!! Well, after reading your replies & a little bit more research, I realised the thing only thing similar between the latter Wilshire II & III, & the 60's solids is the neck material & the shape of the headstock, & even they're both different!!! I was curious in regards to the Epi_Insiders, asking for our opinion on the guitar in the picture. Put out a reissue of the mid 60's Crestwood solidbodies, Deluxe & Custom, limited edition, custom shop model!!! They would be a huge success I think!!! Do a Fred 'Sonic' Smith MC5 model like Fender did with the Wayne Kramer 'Stars & Stripes' signature Strat!!! It was only a MIM Strat, so it kept the price affordable!!! And they sold everyone, the price for a used one if you can find one, had doubled!!! Made it a collectors item!!! Win win all around Epiphone!!!

Hi, I'm trying to find out about the Epiphone Wilshire III. As a owner of the Wilshire II, with 2 mini humbuckers, I read on wiki, there was a Wilshire III, with 3 mini humbuckers!!! Is this correct, as I've never seen or heard of one, and, or, are they confusing it with a Epiphone Crestwood Deluxe, which I own, that has 3 mini humbuckers!!! They both have the batwing style Headstock. I came across the picture on Google of a white 3 mini humbucker Wilshire with a 3 on a side Headstock which was with this forum, but is it only a suggested prototype??? Epiphone's reissue of the Wilshire with the batwing Headstock & 2 mini humbuckers was gorgeous!!! A reissue of the mid 60's Crestwood Deluxe with the batwing Headstock & 3 mini humbuckers in a limited number, would fly off the racks in sales, if the copies made are any indication!!!