The bound rosewood fretboard features pearloid trapezoid inlay and retains the stock medium jumbo fretwire. The mahogany neck has a slender C-shaped profile carve with nicely rounded shoulders, measuring. Featherweight at 6lbs 1oz, this Casino has been professionally setup here at Mike & Mike’s Guitar Bar with 11-49 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 bark, and have a glassy, percussive quality.
Crafted at the Peerless factory in Korea, this uncommon and since-discontinued iteration of the Casino is expertly made and stacks up well against the Elitist line.Īcoustically, the fully hollow all-maple body has an articulate and airy tone, capturing both the clear note attack of maple as a tonewood and the warmth of the hollow construction. Up for sale, a 1999 Epiphone Casino in exceptional, 100% original condition and in perfect working order, complete with the original hardshell case.