Originally Posted by
Duffy
It sounds like a nice SG.
I have seen in the past that the "so called" Epiphone Custom Shop guitars exist in a, it seems, purely marketing environment and that the Custom Shop label is painted on there to indicate that it is a sort of special edition or some sort of sales ploy; because there evidently does not exist a physical, real, Epiphone - Custom Shop. As in a workshop specially dedicated to making Epiphone Custom Shop Guitars. It seems to be a label on the headstock. Possibly the guitars are made to some other standard than the run of the mill models.
I have an Epi, so called, "Custom Shop" copy of a '66 Gibson Standard SG that is also called a "School of Rock" SG limited edition. It is nice but looks like the regular decent, high gloss, G400s.
I think the Epiphone "Custom Shop" is a figment of the imagination rather than a physical place.
It does sound like a real cool guitar though.