You can feel the finish crack while running your finger across it but we put a new set of strings on it & tuned it up & it seems to be holding together just fine. Pickups/Hardware: It has nickel plated hardware, 2 Gibson P90T and P90R pickups, trapeze tailpiece, 2 volumes, 2 tones, 3 way toggle and tune-o-matic bridge.Ĭosmetics: This guitar is in great shape save for a headstock fracture that appears to be holding up just fine. Neck: It has a '60s slim taper mahogany neck with 22 medium jumbo frets on a bound rosewood fingerboard, 24.75” scale length, parallelogram inlays and 1.64” nut width. Includes hardshell case.īody: Hollow body double cutaway made of 5 ply maple with f holes and cream binding. A finely crafted, great-sounding, and easy-playing instrument that beautifully blurs the line between Epiphone and Gibson. You'll find the Elite 1965 Casino true to the original made famous by The Beatles. Crafted in Japan with premium woods, fitted with American pickups and circuitry-even American-made toggle switches and Grover tuners-they're made at a special factory devoted to their manufacture where they receive a high degree of hands-on luthier attention. The Elite Series are instruments that approach custom shop perfection.
Ummary: You'll love the lightweight and comfortable neck of the Epiphone Elitist 1965 Casino.
