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  1. I may have posted about this on this thread before but I just bought a g400 1966 pro and I got the manual, Allen key sticker and poster. But Epiphone should really update the poster. Turning it over and seeing the discontinued models such as g 400 custom and emperor regent make me kick my self harder for selling my g400 custom....

  2. Another celeb Epiphone. Here's Ralph Davis playing with Jean Shepard in the 50s. I think he's using an Epiphone Emperor without a pick-up. The neck markers don't look right for an Emperor though, so I could be wrong.

     

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    Almost looks like the neck markers on the excellente. It also doesn't have the regular vine inlay must be an early maybe 30s?

  3. Yes the great Leon Rhodes used Sheratons with E.T. Pretty sure the first Epiphone acoustic seen with Ernest is a frontier but it is fitted with a custom inlay New York neck left over from the pregibson era. It has the same headstock shape as the early Sheratons that were fitted with them. It appears he got the excellente around 63 as Leon also started playing a red 63 sherry around this time to.

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