New Epiphone Casino Day

[Larry Mal]

Thank you.

[CorporateDisguise]

HNGD! Casinos are such cool instruments. I’ve heqrd alot of good things about the more recent MIC Epiphones.

I have a friend who bought one of the SGs and says it’s a fantastic guitar. I feel the same way. I believe modern Epiphone and Squier have really stepped up to the plate to make great instruments.

Is the Rivera fully hollow? Also, how did you like the B7?

I kinda want to keep mine light, but I’ve always been a fan of vibratos hence my offset background.

The Riviera is semi-hollow.

I love the Dusenburg radiator trem! Nice and soft action, somewhere between a Bigsby and jazzmaster trem. The B5 on my Firebird is much stiffer and subtle.

[Dok]

Reviving this thread as I've had my eye on Casinos lately, with a question about their neck profiles. The recent Made in China Casinos from the last few years still seem to have that "classic" Epiphone SlimTaper D profile that I absolutely can't stand, unfortunately. Today I played another MIC version, the "Inspired by John Lennon" version - that had a lovely round, chunky neck profile that I thought was great, but it was $2200!! Too much money when I could buy a used Kalamazoo-made Heritage 530 for similar cash.

Does anybody know of any other of the many versions of this with a NON-SlimTaper D neck profile and isn't $2k? Thanks y'all.