Epiphone's Version of the Gibson SG Standard

This super little guitar (12 3/4 inches wide) weighs in at a comfortable 7.40 lbs. and has a very fat nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Solid mahogany body, one-piece mahogany neck with a nice, medium profile, and rosewood fretboard with 22 frets and inlaid pearl oval position markers. Headstock with inlaid pearl "Epiphone" script logo and pearl cloud inlay. Three-layer (black/white/black) plastic truss-rod cover. Individual single-line Kluson Deluxe tuners with double-ring tulip-shaped Keystone plastic buttons. Serial number ("118793") impressed into the back of the headstock. Two mini-humbucking pickups, with black plastic surrounds and outputs of 6.96k and 7.71k, set into the original clear plastic "batwing" pickguard with two-color white (cream and white) underneath and the Epiphone stylized "E" logo in silver. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way pickup selector switch, all on lower treble bout. Black plastic bell-shaped knobs with metal tops. ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic non-retainer bridge with nylon saddles and Epiphone vibrato tailpiece with rosewood plaque with the Epiphone stylized "E" logo in silver. The pots are stamped "134 6320" (Centralab April 1963). This fabulous example has recently had an absolutely invisible neck reset by master luthier Scott Lentz - the neck joint was NOT broken - it just came cleanly apart!! Original gray and black softshell case (9.00). A great opportunity to own the Epiphone equivalent of an SG Standard at a fraction of the price…

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 that we have seen. Many players find the three-pickup layout of the Gibson Custom rather awkward to play, so the Epiphone Crestwood Custom, with its identical weight, body measurements, and nut width, is considered by the "one's that know" to be the natural answer.