![]() I do have a couple of MIC built guitars, such as my Gretsch Pro Jet, and they're generally decent to pretty darn good too. I've yet to play a Chinese made Casino, so I don't have a frame of reference concerning their relative quality levels. I have no idea if that translates into "worth more" or not. I think it's an exceptionally good guitar, and pretty much everyone else who has played it - from seriously heavy jazz cats to hard core rockers - has commented favorably about it. The factories were the same, and so were the people. Meaning that, in the early 60s, Gibson was building and subsequently selling guitars under the Epiphone brand name. IM SELLING MY BELOVED 1995 EPIPHONE CASINO 2 X P90s, BIG BEATLES CONNECTION, PLUS KEITH RICHARDS, PAUL WELLER, OASIS BEAUTIFUL CONDITION, RECENTLY SET UP. To some extent we’re comparing apples and oranges as the Gibson’s vibrato tailpiece, shimmed bridge pickup and 19th fret. ![]() In a shootout with our 1969 ES-330 (a long-neck model with a Bigsby) the Casino sounds clearer, with more air but less midrange snarl. Peerless built guitars have a reputation for being well made / good sounding, and mine certainly lives up to that IMO. The original 1965 Casino that John Lennon bought was a Gibson-made guitar, just like most Epiphone instruments produced around that time. High roller: we wish the ’board edges were rolled but the neck profile is perfect. ![]() It should be able to tell you quite a bit about your guitar - including what factory it was made in, and the month and year of manufacture.Īccording to that site, mine was made in March of 2001 at the Peerless factory. ![]() Yeah I hear the Peerless factory mentioned alot with other Epiphones, mine is only 4 years old though which is around the time they stopped production in Korea I think ![]()
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