The bound rosewood fretboard is a particularly dark cut of this tonewood, featuring pearloid parallelogram inlay and flawless original medium jumbo frets. The neck has a medium C-shaped profile carve with round shoulders in every register and a hair more overall heft in the higher registers of the fretboard, measuring. The guitar is featherweight at only 6lbs 3oz, professionally dialed in here at Mike & Mike’s Guitar Bar with 10-46 roundwound strings, low action and accurate intonation. Whether you want dynamic cleans or thick overdrive, these pickups can produce either with ease and with a refinement beyond most other modern Casino reissues.
The P-90s pickups are wound to vintage spec with plenty of midrange presence and a glassy, percussive quality. Acoustically, the fully hollow all-maple body has a particularly broad and authoritative natural acoustic bark and cut, capturing both the clear note attack of maple as a tonewood and the warmth of the hollow construction. Crafted at the Peerless factory in Korea, this uncommon and discontinued left-handed iteration of the Casino stacks up well against the Elitist line, expertly made and sparingly played. Up for sale, a 1998 Epiphone Casino in exceptional, 100% original condition and in perfect working order, complete with the original hardshell case and factory paperwork.
