The nut measures 1 9/16” in width, carved from bone for optimal clarity and sustain. This guitar plays cleanly up the 24 3/4“ scale with a straight neck and a responsive, optimally-adjusted truss rod. The frets are in great shape, with plenty of meat and well-rounded crowns, only showing a touch of wear beneath the plain strings on frets 1-3. The rosewood fretboard features pearloid parallelogram inlay, with fret-edge binding on the stock medium jumbo fretwire. The three-piece maple neck has a slender C-shaped profile carve with modest shoulder at the nut and a hair more roundness and heft further up the fretboard, measuring. Weighing 6lbs 4oz, we’ve had this Casino professionally setup here at Mike & Mike’s Guitar Bar with 11-49 strings, low action and spot-on intonation. These pickups are wound to vintage spec with plenty of midrange bark, and a glassy, percussive quality, producing both articulate cleans and overdriven growl with a refinement far beyond most other iterations of the Casino platform. Produced in Japan at the Terada factory and featuring a gloss Natural finish, this is an uncommon Epiphone reissue which preceded the current 'Elitist' line, given the John Lennon treatment with a couple key modifications including gold Grover Rotomatic tuning machines and a small black plastic pickup toggle surround.Īcoustically, the fully hollow thinline maple body has a smooth, bright tone which pairs well with the original pair of P-90 pickups.

Up for sale, a 1996 Epiphone Casino in exceptional condition and in perfect working order, complete with the original gigbag.

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