Epi > Gibson, New Tbird.

[vene-nemesis]

http://www.epiphone.com/news.asp?NewsID=1412

Neck through, new pickups, new bridge (at long last), they even had to put the epiphone logo silk-printed on the headstock to avoid "gibsonation" and ebay-scaming.

The only shame is it is active, but anyway im looking foward to try it.

 

[lowendgenerator]

I still want to know if the neck is the old Epiphone style or if they shaped in more like the Gibson necks. The old Epi necks were horribly large and cumbersome.

 

[SanDiegoHarry]

this explains why I saw a last-year's model at the Pasadena GC for ~$279

me, I can't get past the bolt-on neck. Epi starts makinn this like the original and I'll listen...

 

[SanDiegoHarry]

D'oh - now their neck-thru! Silly me. Well, I guess I should at least look at a new one...

 

[vene-nemesis]

I still want to know if the neck is the old Epiphone style or if they shaped in more like the Gibson necks. The old Epi necks were horribly large and cumbersome.

It says that the neck profile has been made slimer, but doesnt mention to what extent.

 

[ClydeMcAllister]

These look great! I wish the T-Bird sound was to my liking, cause I would so rock one of those.

 

[broadblik]

They apparently have a

""bad ass" fully-adjustable bridge"

Hm...

 

[godofthunder59]

These are neck through, for the $ I bet they are going to spank the Gibson Tbird

 

[johnnyflats]

These look really nice, i have one of the older epi T-Birds and to be honest i really like the sound but as someone else said the necks are a bit cumbersome, so much so that i dont pick it up a great deal which is a shame really but i cant bring myself to part with it.

 

[overdrivethree]

i dig the black trim on those, too.

i'd try one. only downside is you can't "Fenderbird" it now.

 

[P-BASSLOVER]

They finally got rid of that "Horrible" 3 point bridge!
I Hated that thing!

 

[PRUNEFACE]

anyone know street price?

 

[bassman1185]

Looks pretty cool. I wonder about the electronics, though, and what the actual street price will be.

 

[Visirale]

Wow. I'm impressed. If I play one and like it, I might consider selling both of my rays so I can get a streamer stage one and use that as a gigging rock bass...

 

[JessyB96]

It'll probably be comparable to the epi blackbird neck which is slightly thinner and easier to play then the regular tbird. and I'd be willing to say 500 is a good guess for street price. they still should have put the strap button on the back like the gibsons.

 

[LCMBassist]

Looks like Epiphone have shot Gibson in the foot......these don't seem to have anything that the Gibson doesn't have.....

 

[ggmcgee]

Oooo, very pretty! What's the feasibility of taking out the pickups and active wiring to drop in some more traditional t-bird pickups?

 

[Barkless Dog]

Used they should go for $400- $600 I would imagine.


Lurking

 

[JessyB96]

it could be done u just would have a blank space in your controls which would actually be a good place for a toggle switch actually... Only problem is good luck finding more traditional tbird pickups u can get them from gibson (or so i'm told) but it ain't easy and the 4 string will be 500 (new) if u notice the msrp is the same as on the allen woody bass from epi and that runs for 500 street.

 

[vene-nemesis]

it could be done u just would have a blank space in your controls which would actually be a good place for a toggle switch actually... Only problem is good luck finding more traditional tbird pickups u can get them from gibson (or so i'm told) but it ain't easy and the 4 string will be 500 (new) if u notice the msrp is the same as on the allen woody bass from epi and that runs for 500 street.

He could wire it V/V/T/T, seymoure duncan makes replica pickups or at least ones that are extremely close and you can buy the crome pickup covers from ebay theres a guy selling old gibson parts and replicas of them.