Epiphone '61 Reissue Casino 50th Anniversary

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In the following video, Guitar World's Paul Riario reviews the Epiphone '61 Reissue Casino 50th Anniversary, an accurate reproduction down to its T-shaped headstock plate, black P-90s, dot inlays, tortoiseshell pickguard and finish.

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[ravenshield56]

Damn... epiphone are so underrated its untrue...just like squier

[WTig3r]

@gibsonemg That dude is a jerk. One must be tone deaf to not hear the difference between guitar woods

[gitaarleraar1970]

Sadly, the guy in the vid totally misses the point in NOT showing what this guitar is meant to do. The Casino sounds best cranked up and fuzzy - not through some shitty Boss overdrive pedal.

[gitaarleraar1970]

What bothers me about this guitar is the dot position markers. Every other Casino has those nice trapeze block markers which look so much nicer on this particular model.

[elklive]

@MattTC1028 I am on the fence with these 2 options. Can you email me and let me know what you didn't like about the elite? Or like me, do you think it is just overpriced?

[gibsonemg]

@ravenshield56 Are you suggesting that all guitars that have the same pickups and strings sound identical? Have you ever played an ash/maple strat with texas specials and then an alder/mahogany one? Have you ever noticed that plugging in acoustic guitars can feed back if you turn them up loud because of the effect of the resonant cavity on the vibration of the strings? Just because your limited mind hasn't wrapped around the physics doesn't mean guitar makers are ignorant and the public naive

[gibsonemg]

@groovydjs Nice attempt at being scientific. Pickups don't pick up things that are magnetic, they pick up changes in the magnetic field that result from a metal vibrating string. But more important to your post, to think that the vibrations of the strings are not affected by the materials they are mounted to is ridiculous. Even though the pickups don't recreate the vibrations of the wood, the wood affects how well vibrations can be maintained in the strings, which is picked up by the pickups.

[MattTC1028]

just sold my epiphone elitist casino and bought this baby in vintage sunburst with a tremotone. best decision of my LIFE.

[MattTC1028]

this guitar is soooo epic

[stefguitar90]

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[TheCollisionofworlds]

@ravenshield56 you're fucking retarded. the attraction of the magnet isnt how pickups work. pickups work in the same way that an alternator in a car does where by passing a metal object through a magnetic field you create a current. the way that the string moves through that magnetic field is influenced by every part of the guitar because it effects how the string reacts when you hit it and the density of the wood determines how much of the vibration is retained. stop being so stupid.