EPIPHONE CRESTWOOD CUSTOM

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FEBRUARY 2021 GUITARIST
reviewEPIPHONE CORONET, WILSHIRE & CRESTWOOD CUSTOM
PROS Fabulous value, brilliantly
ballsy tones, great neck
CONS Location of strap button
makes it a tad headstock-heavy
PROS As Coronet, but the
Wilshire is more versatile due
to that second pickup
CONS Ditto Coronet
PROS Gorgeous bright but
‘important’ tones, versatility,
quirky but cool vibrato system
CONS Ditto Coronet/Wilshire
EPIPHONE
CORONET
PRICE: £349
ORIGIN: China
TYPE: Double-cutaway
solidbody electric
BODY: Mahogany with
rounded edges
NECK: Mahogany, medium C
profi le, glued-in
SCALE LENGTH: 628mm
(24.72”)
NUT/WIDTH: Graph Tech
NuBone/43mm
FINGERBOARD: Indian laurel,
unbound with pearloid dot inlays
FRETS: 22, medium jumbo
HARDWARE: Epiphone Lightning
Bar compensated wraparound
bridge/tailpiece, ‘3 On A Plate’
tuners with ivory buttons and
press in bushings
STRING SPACING, BRIDGE:
52mm
ELECTRICS: Single Epiphone
P-90 Pro ‘dog-ear’, single volume
and tone controls
WEIGHT (kg/lb): 3/6.6
OPTIONS: Colours only
RANGE OPTIONS: Wilshire and
Crestwood Custom, as reviewed
LEFT-HANDERS: No
FINISHES: Cherry (as reviewed),
Black
EPIPHONE
WILSHIRE
PRICE: £399
ORIGIN: China
TYPE: Double-cutaway
solidbody electric
BODY: Mahogany with
rounded edges
NECK: Mahogany, medium C
profi le, glued-in
SCALE LENGTH: 628mm
(24.72”)
NUT/WIDTH: Graph Tech
NuBone/43mm
FINGERBOARD: Indian laurel,
unbound with pearloid dot inlays
FRETS: 22, medium jumbo
HARDWARE: Epiphone LockTone
tune-o-matic bridge and stud
tailpiece, Epiphone Deluxe tuners
with ivory buttons
STRING SPACING, BRIDGE:
52mm
ELECTRICS: 2x Epiphone P-90
Pro ‘soapbar’, twin volume and
tone controls, 3-way selector
WEIGHT (kg/lb): 3.1/6.82
OPTIONS: Colours only
RANGE OPTIONS: Coronet and
Crestwood Custom, as reviewed
LEFT-HANDERS: No
FINISHES: Cherry, Black
(as reviewed)
EPIPHONE
CRESTWOOD
CUSTOM
PRICE: £489
ORIGIN: China
TYPE: Double-cutaway
solidbody electric
BODY: Mahogany with
rounded edges
NECK: Mahogany, medium C
profi le, glued-in
SCALE LENGTH: 628mm
(24.72”)
NUT/WIDTH: Graph Tech
NuBone/43mm
FINGERBOARD: Indian laurel,
unbound with large oblong inlays
FRETS: 22, medium jumbo
HARDWARE: Epiphone LockTone
tune-o-matic bridge w/ nylon
saddles, Tremotone vibrato
tailpiece with Indian laurel insert,
Epiphone Deluxe Vintage tuners
with ivory buttons
STRING SPACING, BRIDGE:
52mm
ELECTRICS: 2x Epiphone Pro
mini-humbuckers, twin volume
and tone controls, 3-way selector
WEIGHT (kg/lb): 3.2/7.04
OPTIONS: Colours only
RANGE OPTIONS: Wilshire and
Coronet, as reviewed
LEFT-HANDERS: No
FINISHES: Cherry (as reviewed),
Polaris White
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and Brazilian rosewood marvels, but
modern-day versions of 60-year-old
Epiphone entry models using todays
available materials. That Epiphone has
done it so well, and employed such great-
sounding pickups and even bothered with
quality pots and nut material, is a testament
to the brand’s clear desire to get it right.
And if you go back to the days of the
company’s original Coronet, its parent
marque’s LP Junior and, yes, even the
Fender Duo-Sonic, its exactly what they
did all those years ago. “Get them playing
your brand at the start and they’ll stay
with you forever; put them off with an
unplayable, cheap-sounding plank and
they’ll go elsewhere,is what a fairly
high-up Gibson man told this reviewer
back in 1978. How right he was. And on the
basis of these three lovelies, we’d certainly
stick with Epiphone.
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