Even the poly doesn’t bug me - but my hands don’t sweat much.Īll you HAVE to do is put reasonable pickups in it instead of the crazy overwound stocks. It sounds wonderful through a tweed for old-school blues. And it doesn’t have a Brazilian fingerboard, so I don’t have to worry about crossing borders with it (which I do often, living where I do - Germany/Switzerland/France). It’s fun to play, it looks good, it sounds good, I’m not plunged into deep depression when I ding it, nobody is going to steal it I don’t have to spend my breaks wondering if my guitar will be on stage when I get back. On stage in a bar with a drummer and you won’t hear much difference. Everything except the trapeze, the bridge bushings, and the frets.ĭoes it measure up now? No. Vintage-voiced Fralin P90s, pots, switch, jack, nut, bridge, tuners. How could it? It hasn’t been vibrated for half a century.īut I viewed the Epi as a platform and changed everything on it. I didn’t expect the Casino to measure up, and of course it didn’t. The 125 is an amazing guitar it sounds huge. I bought it because I didn’t want to gig anymore with my going-on-sixty-year-old ES-125TDC - it’s getting a bit delicate. We all know a Chinese (or Korean) Epiphone is not a Gibson.
