Another Winner from Nashville

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

https://www.epiphone.com/en-US/p/Electric-Guitar/Epiphone-Coronet-USA-Collection/Vintage-Cherry

Just when you thought Gibson couldn't get any better.

 

[thegame]

Looks like a guitar you'd find in the toy section at a department store.

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

Looks like a guitar you'd find in the toy section at a department store.

Those knobs, though. WTF?
Also, where's the explorer headstock? Or maybe a V headstock?
Do they even reach out to their customers first?

 

[thegame]

Do they even reach out to their customers first?

Yes, the 6 year olds loved it.

 

[Meanjoegreene]

That should get firebird X’d

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

Yes, the 6 year olds loved it.

Seems about right. This is kind of a strange run, reading about them show not 58/59 RI specs or even modern for that matter. So, not sure who the buyer is? Perhaps I need to buy some new tan pants to understand what's happening here.

 

[Bardagh]

The stop tailpiece as a bridge is always retarded.

 

[TheGreatGreen]

That might actually be the dumpiest, goofiest looking non-joke guitar design I have ever seen in my entire life.

It’s so bad it even makes that new Gibson tulip guitar thing look pro.

What.

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

The stop tailpiece as a bridge is always retarded.

Who needs proper intonation, anyway? Although, I can appreciate a Jr.

 

[TheGreatGreen]

Holy shit I didn’t even see the price until now. $1700. Christ.

Does Gibson have any idea how much guitar you can get from almost any other guitar company in the world for one thousand seven hundred dollars?

Must be fun literally having Dr. Evil from Austin Powers walking around corporate HQ shouting out what the prices should be for all new guitars in between laughing maniacally with his pinky held up to his mouth.

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

Holy shit I didn’t even see the price until now. $1700. Christ.

Does Gibson have any fucking idea how much guitar you can get from almost any other guitar company in the world for one thousand fucking seven hundred fucking dollars?

Must be fun literally having Dr. Evil from Austin Powers walking around corporate HQ shouting out what the prices should be for all new guitars in between laughing maniacally with his pinky held up to his mouth.

I don't get it either. When I first saw it I was thinking it would be priced around $1k, but I guess they must have to pay some sort of environment fee of $500-1k ($10k for CS Signatures, of course) per guitar for using nitrocellulose or something. It's strange the necks seem to be like the 2015 Gibsons that everyone pretty much disliked, so I can see why they went with it.

 

[rsm]

Made in USA = price tag.

not sure who the target buyer is, but they're no one I'd want to know.

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

Made in USA = price tag.

not sure who the target buyer is, but they're no one I'd want to know.

I would gather the target audience is likely rocking a man bun and has several offset guitars that they tell their friends how much they hate while eating afghan sushi fusion.

 

[hammered]

Ace rockin’ one back in the day

 

[rsm]

Ace rockin’ one back in the day View attachment 311247

because he was poor then.

 

[JohnnyGtar]

Meh. Fugly. Maybe it sounds good but for that price, I don't care.

 

[TheGreatGreen]

“I’m poor so I can only afford a guitar that looks like what would land on a wall after a cartoon character sneezed.”

 

[japetus]

 

[hammered]

because he was poor then.

You don’t say

 

[skoora]

The OG Epi’s are rippin’ Junior style guitars. Don’t remember them with that headstock though. The appeal to them though was they were always cheap for a vintage guitar, but sounded good. No point to them if it costs as much as a Gibson Junior.