I know I said, "no more guitars" after I bought that 56
Junior but since I'll be recording more, I like options
and sounds. This is basically my Strat. A few
things caught my eye as to why I wanted this in the
first place.
First was the coil splitting: pop the Tone knob up
and the front and back pickups go single-coil, push the
Tone knob down and they're humbuckers. Nice.
Pretty fancy. The other things that caught my eye
were the materials used. Mahogany body (it's not
solid like the literature boasts); the ebony fretboard;
Grover machine heads; headstock binding. Not bad
for a $400 guitar.
Other neat things are the crown fret markers; the
strings feed through the body; contoured back; nice
looking flame top even though it's just a veneer; and
the 25.5" scale. This thing would be a recorders
dream if there was a 6-way toggle switch to get every
pickup combination like on the SG3 instead of the usual
5 way. But that's nit-picking.
Didn't have to do much set-up. String height was
right on and even the intonation was setup up for all
but the D string. As the Emperor would say, "You
have done well."
Here's the link to the
Gibson/Epiphone site...
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Year:
2011
