Epiphone Casino E-230TD Model Thinline Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1967), made in Kalamazoo, Michigan, serial # 091280, sunburst top, dark back and sides finish, laminated maple body, mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard, black hard shell case.
The 1960's Epiphone Casino and its Gibson twin the ES-330TD are great sounding, highly versatile guitars- one of Kalamazoo's most original and adaptable designs. Both versions of this model were featured in countless '60's British invasion bands, including the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Manfred Mann and many more, as well as many blues, jazz and pop situations since their introduction.
This particular guitar has the typical features for 1967. It sports a bound, pearloid-trapezoid inlaid rosewood fingerboard and chrome plated hardware including the pickup covers, Tremotone vibrato tailpiece and Tune-o-Matic bridge. The thin, double-cutaway single-bound body is fully hollow and the neck joins at the 16th fret. The finish is a fairly dark sunburst on the top with shaded back and sides. The neck is the typical 1 5/8" of the era, but with a fairly substantial back-to-front profile, not as thin as some from this period. It carries the newer "amp style" knobs introduced this year, along with a white plastic pickguard with the silver "E" epsilon logo. This guitar represents one of the few examples of an Epiphone guitar considered more collectible and desired than its Gibson equivalent, as the model is remembered primarily as a "Beatle" guitar. Several Casinos were used extensively by John, George and Paul from 1965-70 but beyond that the model remains an exceptionally fine playing and sounding instrument for any era or style!
Overall length is 41 1/8 in. (104.5 cm.), 16 1/8 in. (41 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 24 3/4 in. (629 mm.). Width of nut is 1 5/8 in. (41 mm.). All original, complete (including the oft-missing trem arm) and quite clean. There is some typical checking to the finish overall, small dings and finish loss to the headstock edges but not a lot of play wear. This is also a really good player with a particularly excellent neck angle (so the trem works very well) and practically no fret wear. A player's or collector's gem, not quite the exact "Beatle year" but a superb example nonetheless. Excellent Condition.
