[Fake Epiphone Casino Elitist?]

I had a luthier change my tuners on a Dot, and they came out wonky like that. I don't like the effect at all. I think the former owner just changed tuners using existing screw holes.

[What Comes With A NEW Epiphone Guitar.]

I just come across this thread and I did not get anything but the guitar with my LP Std. Pro PT. I asked them at Sam Ash when I bought it at the store, about "anything" coming with it (at least some paperwork) and they said no, nothing, which I found a little odd. <_<

 

I do not really need any of this stuff but, if I was supposed to get it, I want it.

 

I just got off the phone with a Epi rep. and he is sending some goodies to me.

In the 1960s, when a music store was selling guitars that came with nothing at all, it was usually black market. One place in San Diego offered me a discount on an Epiphone Texan if I would go down the street to a competing store that sold bootleg Gibson/Epiphone stuff, try out a few guitars, and then jot down the serial numbers so they could notify Gibson. At age 16, I was too nervous to even try, so I bought the non-bootleg Texan for $169.

[epiphone 335 pro vs epiphone dot-difference?]

I guess there's some differences in our own minds that count for some of us and not to others.

 

To me the big likeness of the Epi Dot and the Gibson is not the pups, but the main construction overall and the scale. Yup, "plywood" in both cases and the same scale and bridges, body block etc. on the same shape.

 

I guess I always figured playability first and let the amp and amp settings worry more about the "tone" than the pups or string choices.

 

Then again I never really thought in terms of copying whether the guitar or the music itself.

 

So functionally... the dot is a less expensive close copy of the 335.

 

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Musciansfriend has the Epiphone 335 LE Pro at a price that is enough to give me GAS. I can't justify it, but wish I had a house large enough to litter the walls with Epiphones as decorations.

[New To Me Nick Valensi Riviera P94]

Lovely!

[Fake Epi Wood?]

Not to hijack this thread, but I have read that some guitars have a photograph of wood capping the front of the guitar. Have any of you seen this truly "fake" wood on a guitar?

[Epiphones made in Korea]

The Joe Pass Emperor is made in Korea.

[Epiphone Chet Atkins CEC (Nylon)]

I'm not a do-it-yourself guy, and take things like this to a pro. My local luthiers ave either (1) died, or (2) moved away, so I'm in the process of finding one. Trust me, if I tried to fix it myself, I'd just mess it up beyond repair.