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Cool Dan--where'd you get that?

A couple of the specs in that chart differ from Epi's own advertising in the original link to their site--the neck width--1 11/16ths (1.68), and the body material--laminated maple top, back & sides.

Wouldn't be the first time Epi's contradicted their own print though wrt Casinos...

Bill

The guy who made it might have gotten it wrong...I've noticed Musician's Friend differ too regarding specs.

Thanks Dan, I'm a member there, but haven't been over for a bit. I'm curious about the slightly different nomenclature for the pickups too--I'd thought the "Inspireds" were the same as the "Lennons".

I'm pretty well set Casino wise, but I wouldn't mind checking one of these out if the local GC gets any in.

Bill

wj350 wrote:I'm pretty well set Casino wise, but I wouldn't mind checking one of these out if the local GC gets any in.

If you're in NOLA right now, gimme a holler!

Bill, do you have any idea what the various fretboard radii are? These are the same as the Lennon sigs., right? 14" is pretty flat...

Hey Jake--actually heading back out this week--we're ducking some "mandatory fun" (social obligations) here on the base the end of this week and over the weekend, LOL.

Don, yeah, the Inspireds are supposed to be the same radius as the Lennons, 14". I don't have a gauge, but my Chinese STD looks to be pretty much like the same curve at the heel as my '65 Lennon--though I don't know if my eye could really detect the difference between, say a 12" and 14" board from just looking.

Unless you are in a Beatles recreation band, I'd get an Epiphone Sheraton II instead.....

The Karma Kings rhythm guitarist has a '93 Sheraton, nice guitar.

One of my closest friends owns a '08 Sheraton II in black. He hasn't run through his pedal board or his main rig, a '73 Master Volume Twin Reverb (his parents are divorced, and he spends all of his time at his mom's house), but just running it through a 20 watt Ibanez practice bass amp (his brother's a bassist, and they share the one amp), he thought it was much better than his MIM Standard Strat.

I've played a Casino (I was 16 when I did), and it was an amazing guitar. I plan to play the Sheraton, which I think will be better than the Casino. Both are fine guitars, nonetheless.

The Casino's a full-out hollow body while the Sheraton is a semi-hollow, correct?

I owned a Sheraton II for a few years, it was a 2000 model. I have a 2009 casino now. The Sheraton was unbelievably versatile, with many friends amazed at its playability. The Casino is simply an awesome guitar. I can't cop the 'made in China' V 'made in Korea" rubbish, as it is a quality guitar. I played a natural JL Casino a few weeks back,....now that is superb!

JakeK wrote:just running it through a 20 watt Ibanez practice bass amp (his brother's a bassist, and they share the one amp), he thought it was much better than his MIM Standard Strat.

Better in what way, Jake?

With all due respect, what your friend is saying is just his opinion and he would have thousands of players disagreeing with him, if he thinks the Sheraton (and by extension the Casino, I suppose?) is more sonically versatile than a Strat. That's just flat-out impossible.

jingle_jangle wrote:Better in what way, Jake?

With all due respect, what your friend is saying is just his opinion and he would have thousands of players disagreeing with him, if he thinks the Sheraton (and by extension the Casino, I suppose?) is more sonically versatile than a Strat. That's just flat-out impossible.

It stays in tune better. The Strat (which was shipped from the Fender factory with .09 gauge strings on it) has .10 gauge strings on it, and can get easily get knocked out of tune. He loves both guitars, but the Sheraton stays in tune better. I keep telling him to go visit the local tech and get it set up, but he never does anything about, saying he wants to be his own guitar tech.

Somehow I thought at first you were referring to tonal versatility (which is where my mind goes first, assuming the instrument is set up to play well). Still, Jake, it's hard to analyze discussions on guitars staying in tune, as there are many factors involved here and, in the end, hearsay in matters like this is very often unreliable; you'll get lots more opinions about MIM Strats saying that tuning is not an issue. And my Made in USA Strats--both of them--have no tuning issues and are, of course, tone monsters.

Oh, point of mathematics: .09 is roughly the thickness of a bass guitar low "E", which is ten times thicker than a guitar high "E", at .009" or thereabouts. So, it's .009", .010", etc., spoken as "nine thousandths", "ten thousandths", and so on.

I put a set of GFS Retrotron Liverpool pickups in my Sheraton II and it sounds great. This guitar also has a piezo pickup in the bridge (note the wire), and really has a great acoustic sound when plugged into my Marshal AS50R.
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