This evening's quickie visit to the local GC (feat. New Epi 339s!)

[CBHScott]

I hadn't been there in damn-near a month , so I stopped in on the way back from dlivering the daughter back to the Big City. I wasn't expecting much, but there was some kinda cool stuff:

I knew Epi was bringing out a 339-sized Casino, but did NOT see anything about these:

Trans red, and actual Pelham Blue (not that "TV" Pelham crap that had the recent run).


And, the Royale family gets the Candy Apple Red treatment:

That would be the silver-sparkle binding like on the black Royales.

Finally, Classic '60s Strat and Baja Tele get the Vegas treatment:

I gotta say those 339 P90 Pros are mighty sweet .

 

[Elias Graves]

That's a Pelham blue 339 with P90s? And not that crap TV Pelham?

I'm in.

 

[Elias Graves]

Interesting. That totally needs cream pickup covers and pick guard along with some amber knobs.

 

[smurfco]

Pizza pizza

 

[DFB]

Were the 'bucker 339s the same price?

 

[Elias Graves]

Were the 'bucker 339s the same price?

$50 more at Sweetwater.

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ET33VSNH

 

[jp_nyc]

Epiphone has got it going on. The sparklecasters are nice, too. Now I want to see one of those mini-casinos. I’m gassing for a jazz guitar.

 

[DFB]

Bucker 339s are$449,P90 are $399.

 

[Chad]

Me and my bank account did not need to see those P90 339s.

 

[Elias Graves]

Me and my bank account did not need to see those P90 339s.

Yeah. I'm already plotting...

 

[Tweedledee]

That's a Pelham blue 339 with P90s? And not that crap TV Pelham?

I'm in.

It looks like regular Pelham and not the "TV Pelham" finish. If so, this one will be high on my GAS list.

 

[Elias Graves]

It looks like regular Pelham and not the "TV Pelham" finish. If so, this one will be high on my GAS list.

Same here. That TV Pelham was complete failure in my book. Pelham is a solid color, not semi-opaque with no grain filler. It just didn't work.

 

[Tweedledee]

Same here. That TV Pelham was complete failure in my book. Pelham is a solid color, not semi-opaque with no grain filler. It just didn't work.

That TV Pelham finish is an odd one. I don't consider it a complete failure, but it does look odd to me. I think a semi-opaque Pelham with no grain filler could work if it were a satin finish on a body with no binding (like an LP Jr, for example). But when the body is bound and has glossy clear over it, to me it looks more like someone made a mistake in the finishing process when I look at it up close.

 

[Guitar Heel]

Yeah. I'm already plotting...

The next chapter in Adventures with Epiphone Hollowbodies, by Elias Graves (3rd ed.).

But yeah, I'm thinking that's a cool guitar.

 

[Elias Graves]

The next chapter in Adventures with Epiphone Hollowbodies, by Elias Graves (3rd ed.).

But yeah, I'm thinking that's a cool guitar.

Third time is a charm?
Alleykat: Warped body.
Casino: (90s Peerless model. I fell for the internet hype about how great they were only to find an ok guitar with really shitty hardware that I didn't feel like upgrading.) The Bigsby was the killer on the casino. Had it been a trapeze tail, I might have kept it but spending $200 on a decent Bigsby for a $400 guitar seemed nuts even to me.

But I'm far more impressed with recent offerings from the china plant than about anything this side of a MIJ Epi.

 

[reverend1]

I'll sell you my Manta Ray 390 LE. That Epi can't carry it's lunchbox.

 

[baimun]

Same here. That TV Pelham was complete failure in my book. Pelham is a solid color, not semi-opaque with no grain filler. It just didn't work.

I had no idea what you were talking about... so I googled it.


GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY!!!! I'm in love....

 

[baimun]

I'll sell you my Manta Ray 390 LE. That Epi can't carry it's lunchbox.

Rev, I'd buy that if Zac would "Phoenix" it.

 

[reverend1]

Rev, I'd buy that if Zac would "Phoenix" it.

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[baimun]

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