It has hollowbody construction but there's a roughly 2x2' square mahogany post that bridges the top and the back under the bridge on the inside. The second main difference is that it's not entirely a hollowbody guitar like an old ES-330, Casino, or ES-125T. I like that on a new guitar, anyway - it feels clean and can, of course, be a lot thinner than a modern gloss finish. The first difference is that this has a satin finish rather than a gloss nitro one. Homework was done when getting the details right - it handles and feels like the '60s beast it mimics, though with a few differences. It's Indonesian-made, but very high quality. There's also an American-made model built alongside Gibson products in the Gibson factory. The standard Epiphone Casino (these days) is a Chinese-made model. I think its a bad way to manage inventory but I thoink its also cool that I was able to purchase a 2002 model strat and its still new.This is a really impressive guitar. Eventually new stock is placed intheir with it and the employees never check the dating when they pull stock. The owner of the shop is notorious for buying large amounts of stock and placing some in his shops and letting some sit in a warehouse. I just bought a new 2002, thats right new 2002, Fender Strat from one of the local shop where my friend works. Its funny how some dealers tend to sit on their inventory for awhile. I got lucky and Bender4Life was kind enough to send the one that fell of his. I just bought a 2008 Casino VS and it was missing the 'E' logo. The new guitar was made in Nov 2007 and that seems like either Epiphone or this dealer ended up sitting on these things for a while.

The dealer fixed the neck fretting issue (set a few frets better & adjusted the neck for me) and threw some new strings on it. Did the Casino always have an E on the pickguard? I would presume that an auto trim adhesive would work well and be dang permanent.

Now for the big dumb questions, is there a proper color 'E' for that Casino Sunburst and has anyone found the best adhesive to hold one on? They said 'they just fall off or curl up so we take them off.' I just bought a new Casino and the dealer takes off the little 'E' on the pickguard. We'll here's a question that just reeks of importance' date=' but I'm anal retentive.

Epiphone casino pickguard replacement