The electronics are untouched, and the chrome plated hardware is positively gleaming save for some light scuffing on the pickup covers along the strum path. The headstock sports an “E” epsilon truss rod cover, and the Kluson-style tuners turn smoothly and hold accurate pitch, with clean chrome plating. The bone nut measures 1 11/16” in width, consistent with spec for pre-1965 Casino models, and a feature that's surprisingly uncommon on Casino iterations. This guitar plays cleanly up the 24 3/4” scale with a straight neck and a responsive, optimally-adjusted truss rod.

The frets are practically perfect with well-rounded crowns only showing a hint of wear beneath the plain strings on frets 1-6. The bound rosewood fretboard features pearloid trapezoid inlay and retains the stock medium jumbo fretwire. The mahogany neck has a slender C-shaped profile carve with nicely rounded shoulders, measuring. Featherweight at 6lbs 1oz, this Casino has been professionally setup here at Mike & Mike’s Guitar Bar with 11-49 strings, low action and accurate intonation. Whether you want dynamic cleans or thick overdrive, these pickups can produce either with ease and with a refinement beyond most other modern Casino reissues. The P-90s pickups are wound to vintage spec with plenty of midrange bark, and have a glassy, percussive quality. Crafted at the Peerless factory in Korea, this uncommon and since-discontinued iteration of the Casino is expertly made and stacks up well against the Elitist line.Īcoustically, the fully hollow all-maple body has an articulate and airy tone, capturing both the clear note attack of maple as a tonewood and the warmth of the hollow construction. Up for sale, a 1999 Epiphone Casino in exceptional, 100% original condition and in perfect working order, complete with the original hardshell case.

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