![]() Fixed shipping to the continental US is $60. This guitar's construction is a tiny bit more stout than my former L5 and the back is ply so it is slightly less prone to feedback than L5s are, a good thing for amplified playing. In general, the guitar looks mint unless you look very carefully. The finish has a very few dings and minor scrapes, but I didn't even realize they were there until I started carefully photographing the finish. The electric sound is superb, very Wes Montgomery on the neck pickup, quite twangy on the bridge pickup. The action on this guitar is truly exceptional and effortless. For $100 less, I will send the guitar in its original configuration and I'll keep the Gibson style parts (the tailpiece is especially hard to find and expensive). I switched the pickguard, tailpiece, and knobs to get the look of an L5 CES and will include all the original Epiphone parts with the sale. The woods are actually more beautiful than my Gibson's. ![]() I owned a sixties Gibson L5 CES and can attest that this guitar plays as well and sounds as good as my Gibson did. This one was built the very first year in the Terada factory, when Epiphone was working really hard to demonstrate the quality of the series. Faithfully replicating mid '60s spec, the P-90s have plenty of bark and growl, with a glassy, touch. Produced in Japan at the Terada factory, this is an uncommon and early Epiphone reissue which preceded the current 'Elitist' line. ![]() ![]() They were true premium guitars built in Japan, built to match the quality of Gibsons. Up for sale a 1992 Epiphone Casino in 100 original condition and in perfect working order. The earliest Elite series guitars, later renamed Elitist, had the motto, "Second To None". This is a 2003 Epiphone Elite (Elitist) Broadway, a 17 inch, solid spruce top, deep bodied, hollow archtop electric, 25 1/2 inch scale length. ![]()
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