A Strange Bird Indeed…

Weighs 8.70 lbs. and has a nut width of inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Laminated maple 16 1/4 inch wide body, triple-bound on the top, single-bound on the bottom. Medium to thin profile one-piece mahogany neck with a nut width of just under 1 11/16 inches and a bound rosewood fretboard with 22 jumbo frets and inlaid pearl parallelogram position markers. Headstock with inlaid pearl logo and pearl cloud inlay. Individual single-line Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons. One low-impedance mini-humbucking pickup in the neck position with an output of 1.60k. Five-layer symmetrical "Batwing" (black/white/black/white/black) plastic with bevelled edge and silver and black Epiphone "E" logo. Five controls (one volume, one tone, and three other controls - tremolo, frequency and depth) plus five two-way 'tonexpressor' switches. Potentiometers stamped "134 6232" and "134 6244" (Centralab August and November 1962). Black plastic bell-shaped knobs with metal tops. ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge and Epiphone Tremotone Vibrola with rosewood insert with inlaid silver and black Epiphone "E" logo. There is a small amount of fretwear mainly affecting the first seven frets. This guitar is in excellent plus (8.75) condition. Housed in the original Epiphone dark gray hardshell case with blue plush lining (8.75).

A strange bird indeed. All amp controls are on the guitar, and it requires the matching amp to be fully functional. It is usable with other amps via the 1/4" jack on the top of the guitar (to utilize the matching amp requires a special cable plugged into the guitar's multi-pin jack). There is one volume and one tone knob and 5 tone switches (giving a lot of tone variations for a one pickup guitar), which work through the 1/4" jack. The other controls on the guitar control the reverb and tremolo on the original matching amp and are as follows: one on/off switch for the reverb and one for the tremolo, one rotary knob for controlling the amount of reverb, one for controlling the amount of tremolo and one for the speed of the tremolo. So essentially the guitar is fully functional without the matching amp, aside from the treble/reverb functions… (www.provide.net)