Winter NAMM 2012 News
All in all I think the Epiphone Casino reissue is a great guitar for someone looking for a decent reissue of a classic. They seem well made and the parts are of decent quality. It offers a nice set of woody hollow tones that are close to a 330 or 335 but have their own sort of vibe going on. They run about $600 new which is a fair enough deal co...
Again, very hard to give an accurate reading, since the different components are all over the map in quality. I'm annoyed by the inconsistencies, but it could be that Dean just had a great design and didn't put money into the highest quality components. If I were to keep this guitar, I'd swap pickups and tuning pegs for sure. A good set of Dunca...
Breathtakingly good. I'm so impressed with this guitar. I'd have given it a ten if it was just a bit less expensive and had better inlays, like split parallelograms. Gibsons can be a bit pricey for what they are, especially for something like a Les Paul. However, this one is still priced very well for the quality of guitar it is. I'd recommend a...
Fantastic! At $700, this utterly smokes most other guitars in the range, even at guitars costing $500 more. The sheer playbility, warm sound, cool features like Bigsby and the small hardware, and the comfort of this axe make it a real winner. All this is not to mention how nice it looks! With this guitar onstage, a guitarist is definitely making...
If you were looking for a traditional semi-hollow alternative to the 355 than this is it. There are some more modern alternatives like the Vox guitars but this is more old school. With Reverend you get the quality and attention to detail of a low volume maker who really cares about their guitars. Lots of companies come up with excuses why they d...
I'm most impressed with how good this guitar looks and feels for the price. No it is not a 335 and it isn't trying to be. I should mention that the fretboard doesn't look like wood when you give it a close eye, but when playing it is totally just like ebony in feel. It's great. Great sounding guitar. Not really a bad thing I can say about i...
With these Vox guitars they are trying something new and that is something you do not see often in the guitar industry. If someone has a popular model they will milk it for all its worth. You rarely see companies taking chances on things and thats pretty disappointing. With these Vox guitars if they caught on they could change the way guitar mak...
Besides the pretty unforgivable fretwork I am satisfied. It's hard to find a Gibson these days that doesn't have some sort of issue. Almost all of them have poor nuts. Fortunately mine sounds great and the feel is mostly there. I might replace the tuners and have some fretwork done to it. In my opinion this is a great alternative to the ove...
All in all I think the Epiphone Sheraton II is a decent semi hollow body guitar for those who are looking for something upscale without spending a fortune. The stock electronics are pretty bad, but the quality of the guitar is decent and the feel is very nice. At $650 new I'd be inclined to get something cheaper like an Epi Dot and replace the p...
The pickups really make this a special guitar. Ibanez has been making incredible hollowbody instruments for a long time, and this is a good low-cost alternative to their high-end instrument. It plays well, looks classy, sounds fantastic, and won't break the bank. Recommended.
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