The frets have plenty of meat, with moderate wear beneath the plain strings on frets 1-9, with wear growing fainter until the octave. The rosewood fretboard features pearloid parallelogram inlay and original medium jumbo fretwire. The three-piece maple neck has a slender and fast-feeling C-shaped profile carve with modest shoulders at the nut, gaining just a hair more heft as you travel up the fingerboard, measuring. Featherweight at 6lbs 8oz, we’ve had this Casino professionally setup here at Mike & Mike’s Guitar Bar with 10-46 strings, low action and spot-on intonation.
Whether you want articulate cleans or thick overdrive, the P-90s can produce either with an ease and refinement far beyond most other modern Casino reissues. The pickups are wound to vintage spec with plenty of midrange bark, and a glassy, percussive quality.
Produced in Japan at the Terada factory and featuring prominent (and very uncommon) birdseye maple figuring across the top, this is an early Epiphone reissue which preceded the 'Elitist' line.Īcoustically, the fully hollow all-maple body has a smooth, bright tone, offering an ideal platform for the stock pair of P-90 pickups. Up for sale, a 1989 Epiphone Casino in excellent, 100% original condition and in perfect working order, complete with the original hardshell case.
