New Signature Epi Joe Bones -----

eSGEe said:

surprisingly "affordable" at 650-699.00
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To play Devil's advocate: they've cut the Gibson pickups while keeping the price high; more profit for them... $700 is a lot of money for an Epiphone with Epiphone pickups, imho.

Here's a nice Epi with Seymour Duncans for $640 ($150+ of SDs...):

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& here's an old Bonamassa with a Bigsby and Gibson pickups for $40 more than the new Bonamassa 60s ($200+ of Gibson pickups...):

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One interesting part of the new Bonamassa 60s is that it says "flame maple cap", so if it doesn't have the veneer that'd be great news. I'm not fond of the Indian laurel fingerboard either although the one on Spectre's SG looks really nice, so I suppose it's case by case...
 
Maple cap with flame veneer, according to Epiphone.

Looks like they copied the neck pretty closely - thin profile, no volute. Somehow I doubt it's long tenon construction like the original though.
I'd love to be wrong about that. But I think if it were, they'd mention it as a selling point.
 
eclecticsynergy said:
Maple cap with flame veneer, according to Epiphone.

Looks like they copied the neck pretty closely - thin profile, no volute. Somehow I doubt it's long tenon construction like the original though.
I'd love to be wrong about that. But I think if it were, they'd mention it as a selling point.
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It is long tenon construction. One has been opened up and shown in video...
 
Go to 4:50. This is not the Bonamassa, but the cheaper 50's Standard. I would assume the Bonamassa would follow in line with
the long tenon. I thought the video I saw was the Bonamassa, but it appears I was wrong...

 
Sp8ctre said:
Go to 4:50. This is not the Bonamassa, but the cheaper 50's Standard. I would assume the Bonamassa would follow in line with
the long tenon. I thought the video I saw was the Bonamassa, but it appears I was wrong...

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Nice axe there.

The thing about long tenon is, in the old days they needed very precise carving to fit at exactly the right neck angle. The reason Gibson originally switched to the short tenon was that the joint delberately had some play in it so they could rock it back and forth a bit to get to the correct angle, then clamp that way it while the glue set. This was actually called a"rocker" tenon for a long time, not for rock music. Not ideal for good vibration transfer.

Nowadays with CNC machines doing the carving, every neck blank is cut exactly right and even cheap guitars can have the long tenon joint.
Except, like he says, for Gibson when they're reserving the better joint for the expensive Historics and the super expensive customshop guitars.

PRS' Asian-made SE series have long tenon necks just like the USA guitars. With CNC it doesn't require extra skill & time, just a few ounces more more wood.
 
Sp8ctre said:
I just discovered that today when I went to his Reverb page to buy a guitar...but it was sold.
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gotta watch them Ohio Flippers man....... ;)

I discovered it after hearing his first video----- that UNMISTAKEABLE Ohio nasal tone those who are stuck there seem to have -----soiunds like a friend of mine from high school--
 
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