ganzua said:Does anyboy know what's going on?
marcusnieman said:ganzua said:Does anyboy know what's going on?
They discontinued them.
marcusnieman said:Oh I'm sure it's just the Elitist series. Probably cost them more to make than was worth to them.
japanstrat said:The Elitist seem to be at the Gibson Japan site
http://www.gibson.com/jp%2Djp/Divisions/Epiphone/Elitist/Les%20Paul%20Custom/
Epiphone had also released a guitar series called Elitist (originally called Elite but changed to avoid confusion with Ovation's Elite model). These were made to a very high specification in Japan, unlike the USA made Gibson guitars, but some parts of the guitars are made in other countries, such as the USA and Germany. These guitars naturally cost more, sometimes twice as much as Standard Epiphone guitars. Standard Epiphone and Gibson guitars have an open-book looking headstock, but Elitist models have a more curved style referencing back to the long discontinued Epiphone Masterbilt series of guitars.
This series was discontinued in 2008.
cashcow said:Here's a Japanese Epi LP Jr. that's been on eBay for months.
ganzua said:cashcow said:Here's a Japanese Epi LP Jr. that's been on eBay for months.
First time I've ever seen an Epiphone like this one
Therefore, now we have Chinese Epiphones, open book japanese Epiphones for the internal market, no more japanese Elitist series and no more korean Epiphones. Right?
cashcow said:Here's a Japanese Epi LP Jr. that's been on eBay for months.
I didn't know that any Epiphones used the Gibson headstock shape, I thought they all used the older type elongated Epiphone headstock shape? The Casino certainly did.
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