ok..when did Epi make a Tele clone?

[captmidnight]

I know I may not have seen every Epi model made, but when did they make this model? Not a bad looking guitar, but why that style head stock?

http://orlando.craigslist.org/msg/698367473.html

[iansmitchell]

check the guitars you wish you'd never traded thread, dunno what year, guy just says "custom". And epi used those headstocks in the 80's for all its fender copies.

[captmidnight]

Well I'll be damned! Guess that is what I get for not being on the forum much lately. To busy trying to get moved from Orlando back up Pensacola way. I hate that drive!

Coming home today I look and see a back seat of a car come bouncing end over end between 2 semis (about 3 foot in the air) ...not where to go and lucky I caught it on the way down side of the bounce and just run over it! Other wise I would have lost a windshield or worse.

Capt

[RotcanX]

They were called T-310s and they disappeared from the line around 2000. Plywood body (although the earlier ones, like the one in that ad, probably had solid alder bodies), weird headstock (Explorer style then 'batwing' at the end)... Squier does it better.

 

[MrZeeEpi]

I own an eighties Epi S800 (I think) with a similar headstock.

I can't really make out the top of the headstock on the photo. (Maybe because I'm a little colour blind.)

But I think mine is even more pointy.

Here it is.

 

 

 

I was told when I bought it in or around 1987 that Epi had to change this design because of copyright (I guess) issues (with I think the man said Carvin). They changed it to a more rounded off style (which I never really liked). I checked the Carvin site the other day and they now use a similarly rounded headstock as this Epi Tele has.

Funny thing designing guitars...

[RotcanX]

The headstock on the Tele in that ad is more of an Explorer shape... they used it on the Strats too. As you said, not as pointy.