A Prime Example of One of the Earliest Sorrentos Made

This super lightweight guitar weighs just 5.20 lbs. and has a nice, fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Laminated maple top, back, and sides, mahogany neck, and rosewood fretboard with 20 jumbo frets and inlaid pearl dot position markers. Headstock with metal logo plate. Later individual Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons. Single Epiphone mini-humbucking pickup with black plastic surround and an output of 9.20k. Tortoiseshell celluloid pickguard with silver Epiphone stylized "E." Two controls (one volume, one tone) on lower treble bout. Gold plastic bell-shaped knobs with metal tops. Rosewood bridge with pre-set compensating saddle and trapeze tailpiece with three horizontal lines on cross-bar. All hardware nickel-plated. Apart from some fine body checking and the changed tuners (same style), this guitar is in exceptionally fine condition. Housed in the original Epiphone dark gray hardshell case with dark red plush lining (9.00).

A prime example of one of the earliest Sorrentos made, the metal peghead logo plate was discontinued by 1963. The Sorrento is similar in body style to Gibson's ES-125T, but has the more deluxe feature of a mini-humbucker.

The original price in 1961: $210.00 (Natural) and $195.00 (Sunburst). See Walter Carter, Epiphone: The Complete History, p. 119.