I bought something far outside of my wheel-house

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Anybody like to guess?

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Very close...but I cannot hand out the cigar. It is a 1967 Epiphone E. 230. TD.

I was working from home today and saw this pop up on CL at a 'drop everything and go look at this' price....and he was less than 5 miles from me. It is missing the tremolo bar and the pick guard. It has replacement tuners. Otherwise it appears great and in very good vintage condition...no cracks, breaks and no obvious repairs that I can tell. Great action. The finish is checked throughout. It needs a good cleaning which I may or may not perform before selling it...I bought it (thinking) solely to re-sell. I plugged it in and played around with it tonight with its old gnarly strings and it is just amazing. So so cool. I'm completely surprised at both how well it sounds and plays. Awesome guitar. I'll need to remind myself of the reason that I bought it....and I probably should NOT put new strings on it and/or clean it up or I'll really have a moral (and financial) dilemma. Just wow. Seller was even a bit negotiable....tax time methinks.
 
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Hey, Kit, would you like me to move this to archtops or misc forum? Fine here, but seems the others would be better places for an NGD.

Congrats. Looks really nice!
 

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Very cool - I had a '66 years ago. Play lots of Beatles songs!

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Yea... I thought George or Paul and John had Epi Casino's. Painted them crazy colors during the Sgt Pepper era then John had his refinished natural which looked blond. If I recall they are fully thin hollow body guitars with P90's.
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Yea... I thought George or Paul and John had Epi Casino's. Painted them crazy colors during the Sgt Pepper era then John had his refinished natural which looked blond. If I recall they are fully thin hollow body guitars with P90's.
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I remember hearing it as both George and John having it done.
John's got all the screen time though.
 

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Hollow body + P-90s = Yum! The biggest, boldest and yet sweetest ES-175 I've played wasn't either of the '57s with PAFs but an earlier example with P-90s.

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Hey, Kit, would you like me to move this to archtops or misc forum? Fine here, but seems the others would be better places for an NGD.

Congrats. Looks really nice!

Thx Chaz...you may feel free to do as you wish. I had thought that CL/Ebay form was best for this veer of a post....but I'm just a member lemming and not a SUPER MODERATOR :)
 

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I remember hearing it as both George and John having it done.
John's got all the screen time though.

Yes, both John and George took off the finish, but Paul never did. Paul still plays his in concert once in a while!

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Well that's an interesting question haha. Because of my recent listing of this guitar for sale, it seems that the seller had not realized exactly what year this guitar is when he sold it to me. It is a 1967 which I knew. This seller made me so uncomfortable I finally pulled the pots this morning and verified what i already knew. 18th week of 1966. Indeed a 1967 guitar.
 

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It's a shame to sell that guitar, it looks great!

Yes...I'm starting to feel the same way. Especially now that I have verified that it is exactly what I'd thought it was. Pots are dated 18th week of 1966...and all original caps, pups. It has extremely cool mojo...feels great. Great lacquer checking common among most of these that were played...extremely cool looking in person. It does have the narrow nut that came along 1966-1969 on this model...and the 1960-1965 are even more valuable from what I've seen. This one is missing the tremolo arm but the bracket is in place. The seller had also lost the pick guard after he removed it because he preferred playing without. The tuners are replaced with repros. The interior label is torn...but enough is present and matches the rest of the guitar to leave no doubts as to the authenticity. It has a "2" stamped below the 6 digit serial at the back of head stock so it was originally shipped from the factory as a second. The guitar is not something that was on my radar nor is it something that fits my particular needs....but I couldn't walk away from it. I'm sure a few of you can understand that age old dilemma.
 
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