Limited Edition EJ-160E Acoustic-Electric Guitar Natural. This modern Ltd. Ed. EJ-160E Acoustic-Electric is one of rock-n-roll’s most revered guitar designs with a solid spruce top and an Epiphone Stacked P-100 pickup. The original “J-160E” was one of the first acoustic-electric guitars on the market when it was released in 1954. Over the decades, the “J-160E” has been embraced by a wide range of artists, both classic and contemporary, such as Lightnin’ Hopkins, Elvis Costello, Paul Weller and John Lennon. In fact, the “J-160” acoustic-electric was the only guitar to appear on every Beatles album from Please Please Me through Abbey Road. Now with the Ltd. Ed. EJ-160E Acoustic-Electric, the “House of Stathopoulo” brings this vintage and hard-to-find classic into the 21st century with a solid spruce top for a limited time. Solid Spruce: The King of Tonewoods Just like the original, this Epiphone Ltd. Ed. EJ-160E follows the contours of the industry standard “Southern Jumbo” acoustic and features a solid spruce top with a select mahogany body. Solid spruce is the “top” of choice for premier acoustic guitars. The more you play your EJ-160E, the more open and expressive the tone—so play your EJ-160E a lot. The body top has 5-ply ivory/black binding while the select mahogany back has single-ply ivory binding. The pickguard is imitation tortoise with the '60s era “E” metal logo. The EJ-160E’s bridge is made from rosewood and has the reverse belly design familiar to “J-160E” collectors and features a compensated bone saddle. The select mahogany neck has a comfortable “1960s” SlimTaper D-profile and is glued to the body using a dovetail joint. The neck has a 24.75 in. scale with a rosewood fingerboard with vintage-style pearloid “Trapezoid” inlays just like the original models. The fingerboard has single-ply ivory color binding and features a 12 in. fingerboard radius, 20 medium frets and a bone nut along with the Epiphone classic Sloped Dovewing hea...
J**W
Amazing guitar
Excellent quality and craftsmanship. Amazingly warm tone depth and the pick up is pretty decent.Guitar came set up pretty much perfect for my playing style and the strings that came along were not to my taste but I can easily restring it.
D**.
Guitar came with poor fretwork. There was a slight hump where the ...
Guitar came with poor fretwork. There was a slight hump where the neck attaches to the body, causing fret buzz when you move up the neck. Not worth getting major fretwork done, returned.To the person who says I'm misinformed: Amazon had TWO of these models on warehouse deals sale, I just got the bad one. Didn't bother purchasing the second one in case it had the same flaw. You lucked out in that the second one was a good one. Anyhow, it's tough to fix a poorly joined, glued in neck that has causes a hump in the wood and fretboard itself.. So no, I'm no misinformed, the one I got was not fixable.
M**2
A lot of guitar for the money
I purchased this guitar as a return. The prior reviewer noted in his review that he returned it because it needed fretwork and had a buzz. Wrong the guitar had the truss rod (WAY) over adjusted most likely by the first buyer. It took 5 minutes to fix. Really easy just need a straight edge and to know that righty tighty lefty loosey. Anyway totally disagree with the prior misinformed review. The fretwork is amazing for a $500+ dollar retail guitar and it would be a deal at the full retail price. The overall finish even though its poly is pretty close looking (different head stock) to the Gibson version even the color but at a fraction of the price. Just after playing for a day or so the guitar is starting to sound better and I am sure with time and miles will open up. I am very happy.This is a very strange and cool guitar but to those who are Beatles fans and in the know something to get especially in the natural color while available. Anyways thanks to the guy who returned it and Amazon for discounting it and saving me $300+ and yes it was easily fixable!
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