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Bought a ES 339 epiphone  in VS should be here tomorrow. Be my first Pau Ferro fingerboard ,kinda excited to play it, also my first semi hollow guitar. Anyone else have one? 

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I have one. it's a great guitar. looks , sounds, plays great.  I'm currently using it for open tuning / slide.  lay out the extra $ for a hardshell case for it if it already doesn't come with one. 

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6 hours ago, Karloff said:

I have one. it's a great guitar. looks , sounds, plays great.  I'm currently using it for open tuning / slide.  lay out the extra $ for a hardshell case for it if it already doesn't come with one. 

 

I bought a case also,only have 5 out of 25 that don't have hard cases.

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Congratulations, and Happy NGD to ya man!  🙂

Any pics of your new Epi ?? 😉 

I'm not big on the Pau Ferro fretboards.  Not saying it isn't good at what it's used for, just don't care for various light colors and streaks that it comes in.  I prefer dark solid colors like  rosewood and Ebony (unless we're talking maple 😉) for my fretboard.   I was disappointed when Fender went that route on their MIM line, and am also disappointed that Epi has followed suite.    I much prefer look and feel of my older Casino with rosewood board.    Here's a pic, and yes,  the board is oiled. 😉

casinopr.jpg

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10 hours ago, arcticsg said:

Congratulations, and Happy NGD to ya man!  🙂

Any pics of your new Epi ?? 😉 

I'm not big on the Pau Ferro fretboards.  Not saying it isn't good at what it's used for, just don't care for various light colors and streaks that it comes in.  I prefer dark solid colors like  rosewood and Ebony (unless we're talking maple 😉) for my fretboard.   I was disappointed when Fender went that route on their MIM line, and am also disappointed that Epi has followed suite.    I much prefer look and feel of my older Casino with rosewood board.    Here's a pic, and yes,  the board is oiled. 😉

casinopr.jpg

I think if you could switch necks and put the Pau on the blonde Casion and the dark on  the sunburst it would improve both of them

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