Dub-T-123 Posted April 7, 2011 Author Share Posted April 7, 2011 If it's so difficult/ expensive to make a solidbody with regular features (IMO this guitar has below regular features) then how do they manage to make semihollowbodies with superfluous features for $100 more? It just doesn't make sense to me when you compare it to their other models. I dunno. It's not even really a big deal to me I'm just a little frustrated/ confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Pricing of any product - note the thread on the "F" series of "roadworn" guitars - is a matter of matching price to customer willingness to pay. Yeah, I think probably adding a whammy adds some to a set neck guitar price, depending on overall construction cost, including labor. But I'm not in the plant. I don't know how they handle production runs, etc., although I know it will cost X dollars a day regardless, just to have the lights on and bodies in the place regardless what they're doing. I also think a set neck solidbody may in ways be more difficult to figure than a semi. I dunno. A board with a bolt-on neck seems a lot easier and with a lot less potential for something you've gotta dump because it doesn't work. A semi probably gives you a bit more latitude for error. Admittedly that's just a guess. but one should also note that the Chinese have done very fine cabinetry for thousands of years. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted April 7, 2011 Author Share Posted April 7, 2011 I dunno man. A solid body is just made on a CNC machine. I'm sure a semi is at least mostly made by machine but it still seems like it would require way more work and more machines. Look. I see what you're saying and I agree with you. I just don't see why Epi had to "skimp" on such a big feature to save a few bucks. Well. I see why they did... To save a few bucks! But what I'm saying is that it was not worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Dub... I don't think it's worth it either - and have no GAS for it. But then, I'm not into solid body guitars with whammies. But I'll wager they sell out... <grin> m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 This one sells for a MSRP of $415.00, http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Doublecut/Epiphone/Ltd-Ed-Wilshire.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted April 7, 2011 Author Share Posted April 7, 2011 Milod - I'm sure they will sell out haha. Jaxson yeah I'm aware of those but I was waiting for Epi to release the whammy model and I was just dissapointed with how they did it. Ever since Duane V posted a picture of a cherry Wilshire with bound neck, block inlays, and that whammy I've been GASing for one. They're so cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveallen Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 I had a tremolo similiar to that on an old Kalamazoo made Epi Casino, and thought it was good. Maybe with that roller bridge it's even better? These never caught on back in the sixties, though they caught my eye. Unlimited fret access! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted April 7, 2011 Author Share Posted April 7, 2011 Yeah the upper fret access is awesome. I've never actually tried one of those Epi vibratos but they look pretty solid. I don't know why they didn't catch on. They look like the ultimate psycadelic rock machine to me. I've played a couple old ones and thought they were the bee's knees. Was the Epiphone brand just not cool at the time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Dub... I've a hunch a lot of "weren't epis cool" in the 60s had to do with where you were and what you were playing and... As a bunch of young guys... let's face it, we were sometimes more interested in what other people were playing and such. Epis weren't being played. I never saw an epi solidbody anywhere. Period. A few Epi acoustics were around. That's in the general center of the country in rural areas. Whammies were not "in," really. In fact... not even for country. Don't ask me why. It didn't and doesn't have to make sense. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted April 7, 2011 Author Share Posted April 7, 2011 I wish they still weren't cool cause then I'd just get a vintage one. They be all kinda spensive an stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Yeah, but in those "olden days," I never even saw a mail order catalog and nobody really even imagined ebay. <grin> <sigh> m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Hey! I like it!!! (Ducks...) P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Milod - I'm sure they will sell out haha. Jaxson yeah I'm aware of those but I was waiting for Epi to release the whammy model and I was just dissapointed with how they did it. Ever since Duane V posted a picture of a cherry Wilshire with bound neck, block inlays, and that whammy I've been GASing for one. They're so cool. Buy the less expensive model and put one of these http://stetsbar.com/ on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted April 7, 2011 Author Share Posted April 7, 2011 Eh I've never been interested in the Stetsbar because it's so ugly and seems way too complicated. Give me a Bigsby any day though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Eh I've never been interested in the Stetsbar because it's so ugly and seems way too complicated. Give me a Bigsby any day though. The Stetsbar seems like her ugly younger sister. Sure, it works the same... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 You could still buy the lower priced unit and put a Bigsby on it for less.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted April 8, 2011 Author Share Posted April 8, 2011 Yeah I know but I just wanted a nice reissue of the original. The cheaper one has full sized humbuckers. I want the minis like the original so I can either keep them or put p90s in. And I know about p94s.. Don't want those. I just want the regular original one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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