Rare Original White Crestwood Custom!

This super little guitar weighs in at a very light 7.40 lbs. The scale length is the standard Gibson 24 3/4 inches and the nut width is a very comfortable 1 11/16 inches. Solid mahogany body and neck, rosewood fretboard with 22 frets and oval inlaid pearl position markers. Headstock with inlaid pearl "Epiphone" logo and vertical oval pearl inlay. Individual Kluson Deluxe tuners with double-ring Keystone plastic buttons. Two original PAF mini-humbucking pickups with black plastic surrounds and outputs of 7.11k and 7.32k. The pickups are set in the original clear plastic "batwing" pickguard with two-color white underneath and with a silver Epiphone stylized "E" logo. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way selector switch and jack socket. Black plastic bell-shaped knobs metal tops. Tune-O-Matic bridge and Epiphone vibrato tailpiece with Epiphone stylized "E" on the rosewood inlay. This guitar is totally original and is in near mint condition. Housed in its original dark gray hardshell case with dark blue plush lining (9.25). This is an exceptionally rare color and apart from a couple of very minor chips on the sides is in near mint condition.

Introduced in 1958 (with two New York pickups), and then from 1959 with two mini-humbucking pickups, the $265.00 Crestwood Custom was Epiphone's two pickup equivalent of the $365.00 Gibson Les Paul SG Custom and was produced with this body and headstock shape only until early 1963. Gibson made 811 Les Paul SG Customs in 1961 and 1962, but the exact number of Crestwood Customs produced by Gibson during the same period is unknown. What we do know is that there were far fewer Crestwood Customs made, and this is the first example we have seen. Many players find the three pickup layout of the Gibson Custom rather awkward to play, and so the Epiphone Crestwood Custom, with its identical weight, body measurements, and nut width, is considered by the "ones that know" to be the natural answer.