epiphone logo variations

[liquidfi3r]

hi all! i was wondering if you could tell me how come my standard has the elitist logo on it?

 

here is a pic

[EpiphoneFan1989]

My LP Special II has this Epi logo too. I think, all new guitars have this logo.

[RobinTheHood]

I noticed this when I was at Guitar Center last week. Not all new Epiphones have the new/old logo, but a whole lot of them do. Epiphone switches it up from tie to time.

[bobouz]

I first noticed the switch to this new logo version around mid 2010, first on the Elitist Casino, and then on the Korean made Velensi Riviera & a few others. Now it seems to be getting generalized to much of the Epi line. I have seen the script of this particular version as a decal on a '60s hollow-body. Throughout the Gibson USA-made era, there were multiple logo versions, and most of the versions since then borrow from those '60s logos. A few even go back to Epiphone's pre-Gibson days.

[EpiEric]

My Phant-O-Matic has this logo version also:

 

 

At first, I thought that Epiphone were switching to this for guitars that were "originally" Epiphone designs (rather than less expensive versions of Gibson counterparts) but with its appearance on the Nighthawk and Les Pauls, I've seen it on both Standards and Customs, it seems Epi may indeed be moving to this logo across the board?

[RobinTheHood]

My Phant-O-Matic has this logo version also:

 

 

At first, I thought that Epiphone were switching to this for guitars that were "originally" Epiphone designs (rather than less expensive versions of Gibson counterparts) but with its appearance on the Nighthawk and Les Pauls, I've seen it on both Standards and Customs, it seems Epi may indeed be moving to this logo across the board?

 

For now, anyway. I found more guitars with this logo than the modern block-style logo when I was at GC last week. It seems to me that they started using this logo with the archtops and acoustics, and have now started phasing it over to the electric guitars.

 

I guess that I'm impartial to the logo. Though I prefer the inlaid logos, the design differences dont matter much to me...as long as they arent sloppy.