Casino Coupe Specs
PROS: Great fit and finish; fantastic neck; highly responsive and articulate P90 pickups.
CONS: None.
PRICE: $599 w/out case
The Casino has been around for decades, first brought to worldwide fame by the Beatles. Since then, Epiphone’s production has moved around the globe a few times, first from America to Japan, then to Korea and now China. While some aficionados maintain that the Korean-made Epis of the 1990s were better made than the contemporary models coming out of the brand’s Chinese facilities, this reviewer begs to differ. The production-line Casinos being produced today, in 2014, are perhaps the finest in the brand’s long history.
The Casino Coupe features the familiar Casino styling and shape—only proportioned smaller and re-imagined in an ES-339 style body. The body and top are made from 5-layer laminated Maple with single layer ivory binding on the top and back. The Mahogany hand-set neck has the classic 24.75” scale with a 1960s SlimTaper shape.
The Epiphone Casino Coupe in Natural takes the classic hollow bodied electric guitar and scales down the body to give you a sleek compact design! Featuring an ES-339 sized body the Casino Coupe's compact body has all the character and style of the iconic Casino yet delivers a crisper, tighter, vintage tone. Dec 04, 2014 The Casino Coupe has a set, bound mahogany neck with a 24.75' scale length. The headstock is angled at 14 degrees, which helps increase string down pressure at the nut, and thus sustain. The rosewood fingerboard has a 12' radius, and is adorned with pearloid parallelogram inlays. The Casino Coupe is the iconic hollowbody Casino reborn in a smaller ES-339 body size. It features Epiphone's Dogear P-90T Classic single-coil pickups, a D-profile SlimTaper neck made of mahogany and topped with a Pau ferro fingerboard, and vintage-styled gold machine heads.
Fit and finish are immaculate – the binding, the fret edges, the neck contour, the pickup routing. We were incredibly impressed by the aesthetics, even more so since it came in our preferred “natural” finish. What sets the Casino apart from other 335-style guitars is its completely hollow body (no sound block here like on the Dot) as well as its single-coil pickups (as opposed to Gibson/Epi’s standard humbuckers).
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Those two factors alone give the Casino a lighter, more articulated tone. We greatly preferred the detail and clarity we heard when A/B’ing it against similar guitars with semi-hollow constructions and full humbuckers. Those sounded a bit muddier to us – and yes, while they had a louder output and will perhaps overdrive an amp quicker, the P90s (yes, the stock pickups) in the Casino are so incredibly versatile, we couldn’t fine a genre they didn’t fit into with ease.
The age-old problem of feedback was even a non-issue. We picked up a tiny bit of squealing just once, and never again; no need to stuff the sound holes. So all in all, if you’re in the market for a mid-range guitar that can pretty much tackle any job you throw at it, test-drive the new Casinos and fall in love like we did.
FEATURES
- Body: 5-ply maple with basswood top bracing
- Neck: mahogany
- Neck Joint: 16th fret, Glued-in
- Fingerboard: rosewood with parallelogram inlays and 22 medium jumbo frets
- Fingerboard Radius: 12”, 24.75” scale
- Nut Width: 1.68″
- Neck Profile: SlimTaper “D”
- Pickups: Epiphone P-90T and P-90R
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