Epiphone Jack Casady Gold - back colour?

Dark brown on mine. Never saw a black backed one.

 

There is a new Jack Casady, the 20th Anniversary edition released last year. I bought one.

Weather made in China, or South Korea, it is speculated that both plants are owned by Samik, the largest and highest quality hollow body production bass builder in the east. Samik makes basses for Gretsch, and many other leading brands.

 

Mine has a brown/reddish back. I honestly had to go to my room and flip the bass over to look at it, I guess I've just never taken notice in the 2 years I've owned it, too busy playing it XD

 

Early JCs had a translucent burgundy back, then they switched to black, last year they went to a very accurate (70s LP Signature bass) walnut stain with clear top coat. The new walnut backed ones look great imho.

 

I just modified the headstock on my Casady, and used black paint.....the original paint is definitely dark brown ( my bass is gold top, 2008 Korea).

 

Here's the back of my gold one. Got it new from Sweetwater a few months ago.

 

Here's the back of mine....looks like a porcupine since I was in the process of getting it ready for hipshot ultra light tuners.

 

FranF:
I didn't know you had one. I've had mine since 2018, gold with the darkish back. Excellent instruments.

 

Have they fixed the pots on these yet? I remember a friend of mine owning one and the pots where just ON or OFF. If I remember correctly they used some weird values on their pots or something? Might as well just had on/off switches for volume and tone, at least on the one my friend owned. It was a very early model, gold finish. I was actually considering one at the time but after trying his I decided against it. It was extremely poorly setup from the factory, I've never seen higher action on a new instrument. It sounded allright but not good enough to convince me at the time. Would love to try one again though.

 

I have a JC Korean-made bass which I love. It has the dark mahogany back and sides. It also does have a fat, "Gibson-style" neck, which I find harder to play then my j-basses or my Starfire II (which is a dream to play.) I'd like to try one of the new, red ones w/ the black p'ups, just to see how there's any difference. (BTW, if you put TI strings on these, they sound AMAZING!)