![]() It's just that in the late '60s they were no longer considered professional quality pickups by the company (and, frankly, by everybody else, too) and they all pretty much sucked. FWIW, the P-90sw made for both Gibson and Epiphone in the US were made on the same machines, with the same materials, by the same people. Also by '67 Norlin had relegated the P-90 to a "beginner's" pickup and no longer maintained the same standard ofv quality. By 1967 Norlin was already planning to shut down US Epiphone operations and was dumping whatever seconds, b-stock, and rejects onto the market. Maybe the difference in years there doesn't seem like much to youngsters like you, but to those of us who grew up with guitar production in those years the difference is HUGE. It's the same as comparing a '50s preCBS Fender to a late '60s CBS Fender - after about 1965 the American guitar companies all took a serious hit in quality, due to the fact that they were suddenly cranking out 2 or 3 times as many guitars and couldn't maintain quality control to keep up with the demand. Having done a little more research are you sure about this? These sound quite a bit different to me.Īnd are you F***ING KIDDING about that stupid video? A "67 Epiphone against a '58 Gibson? OF COURSE they sound different! Late '60s P-90s were very different from '50s P-90s, regardless of the brand on the headstock of the guitar they happened to be mounted on. It's all the challenges of owning a good acoustic, because it IS an acoustic guitar. With 2k, you have options, including some serviceable vintage Gibsons, though those wouldn't be as pretty at that price.Īrchtops are also higher maintenance than a solid-body, so keep that in mind. The rest of the "budget archtop" category starts at around 700 and goes up. Ibanez artcore is probably the only option of quality in the 500. ![]()
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