Epiphone’s Refreshed Casino, Watch Before You Buy
To celebrate 150 years Epiphone has refreshed three of their iconic archtop models! First up for review is the newly refreshed Epiphone Casino. Made famous in the 60’s by legendary artists like Keith Richards, John Lennon and George Harrison the Casino has become iconic in its own right. Newly refreshed, this take on the classic provides the best combination tone and playability with phenomenal value. Check out this full review before you purchase a new archtop or hollowbody guitar to see if the Casino is the guitar for you.
0:00 Intro
0:38 History
1:51 Specs
7:02 Demo
9:09 Thoughts
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Originally posted by UCIB3DqQuXKmM7DzEMppafDA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-jq10NrugY
As many of you have pointed out, yes this guitar goes for $699, not $799. Our mistake!
anyone do a comparison of this refreshed casino and the worn casino version? Hard for me to identify a difference other than color/finish.
Epiphone got way to expensive. In no relation to the value. No this guitar but 1200 dollar epis make no sense
Does the worn version have the same shape and size neck as the standard?
The fingerboard on the "new" Chinese Casino is NOT Indian Laurel – it's Pau Ferro – aslso known as Bolivian Rosewood. You also "forgot" to mention that the neck are Honduran Mahogany (Swetenia Macrofylla) – exactly the same as used on the American made Gibson guitars…
Thanks so much for spending time on clean tones. I know you did it because of the Beatles but some of us are interested in this guitar for the same reason the Beatles loved Casinos–players like T-Bone Walker, Howlin' Wolf, Hubert Sumlin, etc. Not to mention, hillbilly-boogie, early rockabilly, Western swing, which this guitar is amazing for, if you hate Bigsbys and don't want to go Gretsch. Grant Green on the ES-330. OTOH I guess we should be grateful for the Beatles' monster popularity, which is the reason this very-nice-indeed true hollow with P90s is in currency and reasonably priced.
A cheaper alternative to an ES-330, and the road to Grant Green territory. Interesting…
holy shit that demo is fantastic.
I love humbuckers and single coils alike, they all have their place, but I'm absolutely convince that P90s are the best pickups out there. They do everything, and I mean everything equally well. Country chicken picking, blues, jazz, jangle pop, they even do metal
Just picked up a Lefty Blonde from GC for $599 on their Labor Day Sale. Wow, I like it a lot. Great thin neck, lightweight, craftsmanship is excellent. Even came with a very decent gig bag.
Wish they had kept the rosewood fb. They seem to be going in and out of Indian laurel , pao ferro and rosewood on MIC models.
Epiphone was NEVER purchased by purchased by Gibson. It was bought by CMI (Chicago Musical Instruments), which ALSO owned Gibson, Supro, Harmony, and many other brands CMI moved production to the Gibson Kalamazoo. Also, McCartney owned a Casino first and George and John bought theirs as a result. Paul's had a righthand Bigsby tailpiece. Still does.
Nice video, but i'm just sick and tired of everybody reviewieng guitars playing blues for god's sake
Did I understand this correctly, the pickups are not the standard stock pickups?
Great review guys, as always. Cooper, your playing inspired me to buy one ASAP !! Wonderful P90 pickups.
I bought the Casino when the lockdown happened and fell in love with it. I put a bone nut on mine and had it setup but it's truly a singer songwriter's guitar. It's sort of like a thinline acoustic electric but the pickups go from clean at 7 to edge of breakup at 10….wonderful guitars. I bought the Inspired by Gibson ES 335 58 reissue with the wider nut and between those two guitars I feel I can cover a lot of sonic territory.
I love mine. Very good build quality.
The Epiphone Casino is a Gibson ES-330. It's the same guitar, with only minor cosmetic differences.
Well look at this…More About the Epiphone Company
This Gibson-owned factory was, when it first opened, led by Gibson luthier Mike Voltz, overseeing the production of Epiphone’s core line of guitars.
take your hair out of the mic, dude.
Paul actually was the first one to have one and turned John and George onto them. They all had sunburst models and then John & George had theirs sanded down to natural wood. George had a Bigsby bridge installed on his.
are the pickups p90 pros ?
great video, as a rhythm guitarist what would be the best gauge strings for the casino Someone mentioned 10-48 what do you think.
save your money and get a USA one. it replaced my 60s 335, I'll tell you that for nothing! haha.
Tone was superb…what amp/pedal combination were you using?
These guys need to tone down the excitement.
Can’t tell how glossy the neck finish is
All of the yadda yadda yadda on the features is great, but it's Coopers' stellar demo that sells it. Wondering if you've figured that out yet…
The laurel is still off putting.
Love my Orange Casino.
Great playing Cooper and oh yeah nice guitar.
????????????????????I ordered one it arrived today same guitar only left handed wow it is awsum
Does this model sound any different than the worn finish models that cost $200 less?
Beware of Epiphone QC. I just bought a new Casino in a natural finish (purchased locally, sorry). Looks great. I had the guitar less than 12 hours when the nut on the input jack came loose and the jack fell into the guitar. I couldn't fish it out, so back to the store for repair. Epiphone states the Casino has a "LockTone™ Tune-O-Matic" bridge. It looks like the ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic, which is notorious for the saddle screw retainer wire causing rattle. The G string saddle screw on my Casino is out of alignment and the retainer wire is loose. I'm having tuning issues with the G string. Back for more repairs. I've spent more time trying to get this guitar playable than playing it. I should just replace the bridge and change out the tuners while I'm at it. This new Casino is far from great. I'll get the issues worked out and eventually it will sound great, but why should I have to do all this work to get a good guitar? Come on, Epiphone!
Just want to put my elderly to cents worth in. Ask yourself a question. How many great guitarist that you have heard of play Chinese-made guitars? Well, how many I wonder? An educated guess would say nada, man, nada. So.. if you are a aspiring guitarist you need a quality instrument to learn on.! The better the instrument the more you want to play it. In turn it will advance your progress musically. Save your money and buy a better-made guitar, do yourself a favor, you deserve it.
The Epiphone Quingdao facility is completely American owned and operated the facility is run by Scott Lewis he's facility manager and head of production..there are both American and Asian luthiers at the facility Quingdao facility only makes Epiphones no outside brands are made there only Epiphones..
I wish they said what amps, amp setting and pedals they are playing through when they demo these things.
Great video& cool playing, thank you guys ! *sorry for my English. I have my humble hollowbody, a 2013 chinese made 'Inspired by John Lennon' Epiphone Casino vintage sunburst model; but I have to change/an upgrade a bit immediately : I put a .015uf capacitor only just for the neck PU and change the wiring too ('50s wiring) for the neck & bridge PU. I had to buy some good potentiometers too (CTS, 500k). It have genuine Gibson P-90 PUs from the factory. Love my guitar because it have kinda elegant/cool jazzy vibe with warm and a bit 'rock & roll bitey raw' sounds too