Epiphone Spirit, a double cutaway with Gibson shaped headstock

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Epiphone Spirit, a double cutaway with Gibson shaped headstock

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Chaps, saw a guitar today that i never knew existed. It had a black Gibson shaped headstock, but gold printed Epiphone brand, The body shape was a double cut away. The top was flat not carved. The top was a book matched stripey top, in a lovely faded burst with a slight tangerine hue, like an old 60 LP. It had double cream HBs. It looked like it was old, at least thirty years Lovely bloody thing. Great vibe. Sadly not for sale. Just hanging in the shop as bait, next to a seventies LP custom which was also bait. Does anyone know more about this guitar?
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Like this? I know nothing at all about it but it sounded interesting so I googled...

https://reverb.com/item/30114-vintage-r ... shell-case

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HackSaw wrote:Like this? I know nothing at all about it but it sounded interesting so I googled...

https://reverb.com/item/30114-vintage-r ... shell-case
Brilliant, you found it. It's a cool looking guitar and rare, made in eighty two at Kalamazoo by Gibson.
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IM NOT THE ONLY ONE
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Single coil wrote:IM NOT THE ONLY ONE
James I thought of you when I made this post. Gibson were one step ahead.
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It's called a Spirit and they were sold under both the Gibson and Epiphone names, but made in the same factory.

"The Gibson Spirit is a lesser-known model produced from 1982 to 1986 by Gibson in the Nashville, TN and Kalamazoo, MI factories. It was initially produced in the Kalamazoo factory under the Epiphone nameplate. In response to poor sales, some Epiphone models were changed to Gibson, and a faint Epiphone logo can be seen under the Gibson logo on the peghead. Later models were produced as Gibsons in Nashville. The Spirit appears to have been modelled after the Les Paul Junior double-cutaway model, with the primary differences being the use of modern single-coil and humbucker pickups, and cutaways at the 20th fret rather than the 22nd."
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Modern day Japan-made epiphones have the Gibson headstock shape as well, they're built for the domestic market over there.

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Aaaaand that’s what I was going for lol.
But ... yeah they aren’t cheap aye.
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