you might want to try forums.epiphone.com
electric guitars categorys..
a couple of guys there have this new model.
and some old coronet players are there, too.
you get what you pay for works two ways.
you can pay a lot for advertising, nameplate, reputation, and collectibility which may not even be a concern in the first place.
I have about twenty guitars, I guess. *L*
One of my all time faves is
my epiphone les paul studio.
shown in this rather dark picture
https://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff83/TWANGthang/rig1.jpg
that's a 329.00 set neck lp, modified. locking tuners. bone nut. fret level crown and polish. Kent Armstrong humbuck size p90 neck pickup, Kent Armstrong Vintage 12 pole bridge humbucker, CTS pots, sprague caps, Bigsby Tremolo, dunlop straplocks, sheilded.
Next to it is my modified epiphone valve junior, stacked on a homemade cabinet, with my modified roland micro cube amp.
this is my regular daily practice rig...
None of these items cost an arm or a leg, let alone both, and do everything I want them to do, from practice to gig to recording. *small gigs only. it's a 5 watt amp after all*
I'll put the tone combination of the guitar and vj amp up against anything in it's class, costing much much more.
the amp is weber PT, JJ tubes, Marshall mods cutomized to my taste.
standby, power, tone, gain, volume, efx loop, input jack on the front.
three way NFB, three way Conjunctive Filter and panel mount fuse holder on the back.
Cabinet flipped, screen added to grille, nameplate added to screen.
Exeter, from This Island Earth movie, added to speaker cabinet.
the mods to
the micro cube are still in progress.
right now it's just removed labels and blacked out grill.
I'm searching for a used on, which I'll gut and make into a stack cab.
Then I'll mount it's electronics in a smaller headphones only unit.
I've been playing since the mid sixties, I've owned a LOT of guitars, but these are my go to babys.
altogether I suppose I have quite a bit more than stock street price in them.
but every penny was worth it. And, again, I know it'll stand up to stuff costing a heck of a lot more.
Your mileage may vary!
TWANG
