Epiphone Crestwood Custom Solidbody Electric Guitar (Tremotone)

The Epiphone Crestwood Custom celebrates a pioneering early electric guitar design. Back in the day, the Epiphone Crestwood Custom shared the factory floor with Gibson’s now-historic instruments at Gibson’s Kalamazoo, Michigan, factory. Like its siblings, the Epiphone Coronet and the Epiphone Wilshire, the Crestwood Custom has the soul of a garage rocker, evoking the subversive sound of bands like The 13th Floor Elevators, ? & the Mysterians, and MC5. This contemporary incarnation features all the hallmarks of the original design: a symmetrical double-cutaway mahogany body, a set mahogany neck, two-vintage-voiced mini humbuckers, and a slick Tremotone vibrato tailpiece. Still, this is a fully modern machine with top-notch appointments, including high-quality CTS pots, a Graph Tech nut and saddles, a reduced-size Kalamazoo headstock with an Epiphone Bikini badge, and a lightning-fast 12-inch-radius fingerboard. Guitarists at Zoso Music have been clamoring for a re-release of this cult classic. Now that it’s here, we can’t keep our hands off of it!

Epiphone Crestwood Custom Solidbody Electric Guitar Features:

• Spot-on re-creation of the earliest Epiphone Crestwood models
• Symmetrical double-cutaway mahogany body supplies easy fret access
• Glued-in mahogany neck facilitates extra sustain
• Easy-playing medium "C"-shaped neck with a 12-inch-radius, 22-fret Indian laurel fingerboard
• Mini humbucker pickups produce biting midrange and a bright, focused top end
• High-quality CTS potentiometers ensure the best sound possible
• Rock-solid LockTone Tune-o-matic bridge with Tremotone vibrato tailpiece
• Distinctively shaped pickguard emblazoned with an eye-catching stylized “E” logo
• Reduced-size Kalamazoo headstock with an attention-grabbing Epiphone Bikini badge
• Period-correct top hat knobs and ivory tuning buttons

Specification

• Number of Strings: 16
• Left-/Right-handed: Left-handed
• Body Type: Hollowbody
• Body Shape: Casino
• Body Material: Laminated Maple
• Top Material: Laminated Maple
• Body Finish: Gloss Polyurethane
• Color: Vintage Sunburst
• Neck Material: Mahogany
• Neck Shape: SlimTaper D
• Neck Joint: Set Neck
• Radius: 12"
• Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
• Fingerboard Inlay: Pearloid Parallelograms
• Number of Frets: 22
• Scale Length: 75"
• Nut Width: 679"
• Bridge/Tailpiece: LockTone Tune-O-Matic Bridge with Trapeze Tailpiece
• Tuners: Epiphone Vintage-style
• Neck Pickup: AlNiCo V P-90 Single-coil
• Bridge Pickup: AlNiCo V P-90 Single-coil
• Controls: 2 x volume, 2 x tone
• Switching: 3-way toggle pickup switch