Epiphone ES-339 P90 Pro

I had a black Epiphone ES-339 with P90 pickups. The guitar was sweet looking and I really appreciated the look of it. There was really no particular reason to sell it other than I had some many P90 guitars and needed the space. I could have just as easily kept it. The price of these are a really exceptional value.

The pickups sounded great and the craftsmanship of this Chinese made guitar has gone up recently. The biggest problem with craftsmanship usually shows around the f-holes. In this case (with the help of black body color) it really didn't show at all. As I said, the pickups were great on this semi hollow body guitar and I like having the adjustomatic stop tail piece because it provides a very taught response. The weight of the guitar and the size was perfect for me.

Where it maybe lost out to some of my other P90 guitars is the feel of the neck. Sounds awesome and looks awesome,  but the feel of the neck was a bit generic like it was any mass produced guitar. Another problem, the electronics were cheap. In less than a year, I had to take it in to have the pots cleaned because one of the pickups was going in and out.

Epiphone Casino Coupe

The Epiphone Casino Coupe is the smaller version of the Epiphone Casino and is derived from the ES-339 in size and shape.It's comparable to the size of a Les Paul. The Casino Coupe is still a hollow body, offers the P90 pickups, and extremely light, but in a smaller, more comfortable size. While I liked the size and comfortability, I just did not bond with this guitar. I had it for about 4 months before I decided to sell it. I preferred the sound of the full sized Casino better. The sound of the Casino Coupe just sounded generic and non-articulate to me and I didn't like the feel of the tailpiece which vibrated like crazy.

Needless to say, I sold it and bought the similar Epiphone ES-339 P90 Pro. It was priced cheaper and ended up being a much better guitar for me.

2016 - Update

It's been a few years since I've updated this post. A lot has changed in my gear, but I think I'm going to start updating again with reviews of some of my past gear that I've already sold off since I last updated the blog and some of my new gear that I've kept and am really happy with.

To start things off, here is my last family shot of my current gear. It was taken a few months ago and has already had some subtractions and new additions.