The bound rosewood fretboard features pearloid trapezoid inlay and retains the stock medium jumbo fretwire. The mahogany neck has a slender C-shaped profile carve with nicely rounded shoulders, measuring. Featherweight at 6lbs 1oz, this Casino has been professionally setup here at Mike & Mike’s Guitar Bar with 11-49 strings, low action and accurate intonation. Whether you want dynamic cleans or thick overdrive, these pickups can produce either with ease and with a refinement beyond most other modern Casino reissues. The P-90s pickups are wound to vintage spec with plenty of midrange bark, and have a glassy, percussive quality. Crafted at the Peerless factory in Korea, this uncommon and since-discontinued iteration of the Casino is expertly made and stacks up well against the Elitist line.Īcoustically, the fully hollow all-maple body has an articulate and airy tone, capturing both the clear note attack of maple as a tonewood and the warmth of the hollow construction. If the ground wire is between the wood top and the felt pad, you tailpiece and strings will not be grounded.Up for sale, a 1999 Epiphone Casino in exceptional, 100% original condition and in perfect working order, complete with the original hardshell case. Make sure that wire is in direct contact with the metal surface of the Bigsby - you will probably have to remove a felt pad in that spot - and then reinstall it over the mounting screw so that it sits between the wood surface and the ground wire.

Run a new ground wire from that additional hole - solder one end to the ground wire from the pickup wrap the other end around the mounting screw for the Bigsby. Remove the bridge pickup - you will see a ground wire attached to it (that ground connects to one of the threaded shafts for the stop-bar stud bolt). The easiest way to do that is to drill an additional hole through the top about 1/2' - 3/4' directly behind the (new) mounting screw hole on the handle/spring side of the Bigsby. Keep in mind - you will need to run a new ground wire to the Bigsby. If you decide to install a B7 by itself - you should be fine with mounting screws drilled through the top without a center block. They come in 2 sizes, so check the ordering instructions to make sure you get the right one. The other question is a matter of you like the looks of it.

It will add a couple of ounces to the guitar's weight (4-6 oz.?). It eliminates drilling holes AND it assures the Bigsby and strings will be grounded. For a Casino - assuming you now have a stop-bar tailpiece - a Vibramate V7-335 is clearly one option.

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