You can’t fail to have noticed what Epiphone has been doing recently. Not only are its standard ‘Inspired by Gibson’ models ...

the emanation of hundreds of aging guitars—the great variety of hardwoods, the glue and paint and lacquer, the oxidation of strings and coils, the leather straps and handles, and the sarcophagal ...

However, by then Epi had already seen the future and that same year he launched his first range of acoustic guitars ... Epis always had their own headstock shapes. And apart from rare early ...