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  1. October 19th, 2006, 01:11 PM #1
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    I were visiting a school a couple of days ago, and they had this old beat up Epiphone strat (the one with the explorer like head). I didnt have time to play with it more than a couple of minutes but let me tell you that it had a amazing sound. It nailed that classic strat tone perfectly, warm and steely sound. I think they can be bought at bargain prices so I am definately going to look around for one. I recommend anyone that wants a low cost strat with a killer sound to check them out (might not apply to all Epi strats & it could have had non-stock pickups, but schools probably dont bother to do any modifications to their guitars).
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    Epiphone has strat copies? What was it called, I never seen one.
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    Yeah, they made a couple of different strat copies... here is one, but its a bit different than the one I played on.

    http://www.robwesley.com/guitars/Epi...00%20Strat.jpg
    I can't say that I've given up on a flanger cause I've never liked the effect either. I also can't say the same about Tremolo. I hate them both equally. - Tone2TheBone 2009
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    I never knew that Epi made Strats.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SuperSwede
    Yeah, they made a couple of different strat copies... here is one, but its a bit different than the one I played on.

    http://www.robwesley.com/guitars/Epi...00%20Strat.jpg
    Like is dead SS... do you know of more? I wanna see the Gibbi-Strat-O-Son
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    I hope this works..

    I can't say that I've given up on a flanger cause I've never liked the effect either. I also can't say the same about Tremolo. I hate them both equally. - Tone2TheBone 2009
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cranium
    Epiphone has strat copies? What was it called, I never seen one.
    I believe the Epiphone S series are the Strat copies. The S-310 is the model I've seen pics of before.
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    The best thing about these guitars was that they were delivered together with a "Tattoo" of the Epiphone "E" that you could put on your arm and after the second shower it slowly went away :-)

    Only once played one of these guitars and I was blown away! Unfortunately, I could not convince the guy of selling it to me.
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    Jimi75, thats what I felt too. I just took it up to play for a couple of minutes, and when I plugged in to the Behringer (!) amp I was overwhelmed.. Very high Mojo factor, and isnt that explorer head gorgeous?
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    This was my first electric guitar.. oh I swear this had such a bad sound.. even with my bad playing.. but the neck was pretty good to learn on.. you can find these on e-bay around 80.00-120.00, about the size of a Squier 51, maybe a bit skinner... but it was a start.. it also was sold as soon as I got a fender...
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    Justa.. I guess the quality were different between the different Epi Strat models? The one I played on was really nice.
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    I had one of those, I believe that was the first guitar of the modern day Epiphones. It said "Epiphone by Gibson" on the headstock.

    I can tell you out of personal experience it was a piece of junk. The neck warped, the electronics went bad, and the trem block separated from the bridge (It wasnt screwed on, it was somehow "attached")

    I traded that guitar for 50 bucks at guitar center for my Ibanez AS73
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