Sunday, August 21, 2016

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.





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