SPECIFICATIONSīinding : Single ply cream - top, back and fretboardįingerboard Radius : 305.0 mm / 12. 9 Our verdict More versatile than you think, and more practical than ever, it’s great to see the Casino back in the USA. Now available in three new Worn finishes, including Worn Olive Drab, Worn Ebony, and Worn Blue Denim, these Casinos still feature the classic design elements that make the model a legend, including a thin 5-ply maple hollow body, two Dogear P-90 pickups and a mahogany neck with a 60s C profile. Over the years it has been the choice of players including blues legend Howlin' Wolf, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, and John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison of The Beatles. Since 1961, the Casino™ has been Epiphone’s best-selling archtop and a rock ‘n’ roll standard. It captures the Fabs and their Casinos at their pinnacle of cool.The Classic Casino in Three New Worn Finishes If you want to see why 60s Casinos are so sought after, check out the promotional video The Beatles shot for Rain at Chiswick House in London on. US- and Japanese-made versions of Lennon's Casino, both finished (the '65) and stripped (the 'Revolution' guitar), are available, while the model's significance was marked by the 50th Anniversary model in 2011. The model was subsequently resurrected in Japan in the late 70s, before making a huge comeback as a reissue in the mid 90s, thanks to Weller and Oasis.

That year also marked the end of the first run of US- made Casinos. While Beatle George later moved on to a red Les Paul and a beautiful rosewood Telecaster, Lennon had the finish stripped from his Casino, and used it right up to the break-up of The Beatles in 1970. Ease of playability is legendary thanks to slim necks, fattish frets and low actions.

The Beatles connection is a huge part of the appeal of the Casino, but the bright chime of those P90s is crucial, too. Like the ES-330, 60s Casinos had fully hollow, five-ply laminated birch and maple bodies - they don't have a centre block like a Gibson ES-335 or Epiphone Sheraton - and a pair of singlecoil P90 pickups. The Epiphone Casino is a hollow body semi-acoustic guitarthat has proven to be one of Epiphones most popular models.

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