epiphone Crestwood

[BenHagerty]

Oh man I want one soooo bad haha
http://www.mainstreetvintageco.com/cata ... 914605.htm

[VintagePete]

It's a very cool guitar.I had an early 70's Japan model and it was nice but probably nothing to compare to this one.
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[mynameisjonas]

i had a 60s cherry red crestwood, or maybe it was a wilshire (it was the one with block inlays), for about a year, but i rarely played it. the neck was too small for my taste and i've never really liked mini 'buckers. i bought it just because it looked so fucking cool

[northern_dirt]

That is one hot looking guitar..

[heavenstreet]

My uncle has one of the '58/'59 ones that basically have the body shape/thickness of a double-cut Tele if you can imagine that.  The '59 Coronet on there is the same body.  The neck is a huge V.  One of the raddest guitars I've ever played.  The later ones rule too... they are just so thin I'm afraid I will break them, like with 60's SG Specials and Juniors, but worse!

[mynameisjonas]

they are just so thin I'm afraid I will break them, like with 60's SG Specials and Juniors, but worse!

yeah, you could do half step bends up or down on mine just by putting a tiny bit of force on the neck. if you put your hand on the tail of the body and pulled the neck backwards you'd get this really brutal "THWACK" when the strings hit the fretboard. i had an olympic that was even worse, even though the neck was thicker on that one. bad neck joint i guess.

[heavenstreet]

Good simple power chord guitars.  Afraid to do just about anything else.  But that '59... different story, different guitar.

[vegasrock]

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[the older brother]

nice price.... you could build a house in northern Sweden for that kind of money.

[robroe]

i bought this in 2006 brand new from music123.  it was an exclusive for them only.



then i went out and made it pretty with white solid covers, white rings, white bell knobs, and i just bought a white trussrod cover for it last week.
its a wilshire model but very similar to the crestwood.  it comes stock with epiphone dot humbucker in the bridge and in the neck is the humbucker they put in thier les paul deluxe.  I took all that crap out.  now there is a JB in the bridge and a stock jagstang humbucker in the neck....the stock jagstang pickup sounds awesome in just about any guitar you put it in except the jagstang.....





i did all this in an effort to replace my old tricked out supersonic. 

[vegasrock]

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[Superfuzz]

how much did you pay if you don't mind me asking.  i so want one of those.  i've always wanted a vintage one, but that is very cool.  one of my favorite bands (the hellacopters) guitarist use them.

+2989425!!!!!
I love hellacopters and that guitar will suit my band fine..

[heavenstreet]

$8500.00??! Holy $hit are they really worth that much money? Years ago, I knew a friend who was really into vintage Epi Crestwood's. I think he had 4 or 5 of them, all purchased at yard sales and pawn shops for paltry sums of money. My favorite one was a white one with a fat neck and P 90 pickups. He also had a rare Pelham blue one with a very thin neck that is identical to the one for sale. Inverness Green is rare, but not $8500.00 rare. Amazing....

That white one with the P90's... thats one of those 50's ones.

[Stratelejazzuar]

the drummer i'm playing with currently owns a 70s sunburst crestwood - it need a bit of work (new tuners, pickguard), but it's a neat guitar - nice neck on it. he was talking to me about fixing it up "in the off season" (whatever that means) - I'll post a thread shortly after the "off season" if we get around to pimpin that thang out 

[mynameisjonas]

how much did you pay if you don't mind me asking.  i so want one of those.  i've always wanted a vintage one, but that is very cool.  one of my favorite bands (the hellacopters) guitarist use them.

+2989425!!!!!
I love hellacopters and that guitar will suit my band fine..

as i think i've mentioned before, my Olympic was previously owned by Strängen (the right handed guitarist of the hellacopters). he signed the pickguard when he sold it to the store where i bought it. according to the shop owner he had been there just a few days earlier looking at the crestwood/wilshire i bought, but he ended up not buying it because the knobs were non original and the trem unit was incomplete.