Gary Clark Jr Signature Epiphone

JWalker, great clips, but, this is real freaky. As I just ordered one this past Friday.!! I had cancelled my 336 and decided on this as a consolation. The specs were impressive and the price was right.

I'm looking forward to giving her a spin around the dance floor. I was a bit shy about sharing this one here. Glad you started this thread. It's also manufactured in Japan. Not sure if that matters. From the website: The Epiphone Elitist '65 Casino, with its clarity and high level of responsiveness, will satisfy precision players who demand well-defined low and high tones. Designed for the professional musician, the Elitist '65 Casino from Epiphone combines over 125 years of instrument building experience and expertise with the finest materials.

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The result is an instrument of impeccable quality and beauty. The Elitist '65 Casino Wood At the heart of every great instrument is the wood itself. That’s why every piece of wood used in the Elitist '65 Casino line is hand-selected. It is then slowly and painstakingly dried to perfection in custom kilns until it is at the ideal moisture content. The Elitist '65 Casino features 5-ply maple top, back, and sides.

The Elitist '65 Casino Neck All Elitist necks are cut at a 14o grain orientation from one piece of wood for optimum strength, stability and tonal response. As with all great instruments, the necks are then carefully and individually fitted to the body using a hand-glued, dovetail neck joint. The Elitist '65 Casino has a 22 fret, 1-piece mahogany set neck with an rosewood fingerboard, which imparts a warm midrange sound.

The Elitist Pickups All Elitist instruments are equipped with custom-wound pickups “Made in the USA” exclusively for Epiphone by Gibson Musical Instruments and feature such uncompromising features as: - High Quality Cover Materials – All pickup covers use quality German silver with vintage Nickel or real 24K Gold finish. Vintage Braided, Shielded Wire – For authentic vintage look and tone with no noise. Full Wax Potting – Every pickup is potted in a special wax bath to insure that microphonic feedback due to internal vibration is eliminated. All covered models receive a second wax bath to further protect the pickup. Specially Made Magnets – All magnets are magnetized by Gibson to ensure the total reliability of each magnet’s performance. Critical magnetic flux is maintained for the perfect combination of output without sacrificing tonal characteristics.

The Elitist Hardware All Elitist instruments feature the finest hardware including precision Grover machine heads for precise tuning accuracy and stability The Art is in the Elitist Details The Epiphone Elitist '65 Casino's appointments are nothing but the finest including real abalone and pearl Inlays, bone nuts and saddles, hand-rubbed finishes, USA strings, and goes through a meticulous adjustment and set-up. He said in the interview part of a recent show on TV that he was inspired by one of the big blues artists that used a 335, when he went to buy a guitar he bonded with the Casino, and has used it ever since. I think he used his original vintage Casino, but I could be wrong, maybe he has recently got a reissue to save the vintage one. He sure gets a great sound out of that guitar! I'm considering getting the 'inspired by John Lennon' version, in the sunburst finish, as it has the U.S.

Made P90's and some other features that make it better to me than the cheap Casino, and the price is in between the cheap one and the Elitist. I'm wondering what the neck profile is like on the Lennon one, though.