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Recently posted on Craigslist. I'm not familiar with this model. Anybody know what it is and what it is worth?
http://nashville.craigslist.org/msg/4861977218.html
Recently posted on Craigslist. I'm not familiar with this model. Anybody know what it is and what it is worth?
Wow. Thanks to all! I have been overwhelmed with the response. Lol
Seriously tho, I'd appreciate if anybody has any comments or advice.
It looks like an epi masterbilt but I cannot find anything even similar searching the www. I think I am going to check it out this afternoon. Seller is interested in a fender MIM p bass I have. Maybe it's an extremely rare model or a prototype. Or maybe it's just a Franken-mando. We'll see.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Well, almost certainly an Asian import; Gibson only made one Epiphone mandolin in the US, apparently, and that was the Venetian, similar to Gibson's A-40 or A-50. Not an F-model.
Concur with Mike E that it's not one of the current Epi series, which have "curl" headstocks like their Gibson templates. Pre-Gibson Epiphone made a very few "scroll" Artist mandolins, with a similar headstock, but the bodies didn't look at all like this one (check out this thread).
This 1989 Korean-made Sheraton guitar has a very similar headstock. Impossible to ID what 25-year-old Epi mandolin model you have here, so can't say whether it's solid or laminated, carved or heat-pressed, etc. etc. My SWAG* is 20-30 years old, made in Korea, maybe worth trading your Mexican P-Bass on, maybe not.
Good luck
*SWAG = Sophisticated Wild-A*sed Guess
Allen Hopkins
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