Epiphone G400 Custom 3 Pickup

I got this guitar as a christmas present last year and it is awsome! Its based on the Gibson SG and its looks amazing. I love my guitar and it is great. It is made of mahogany and is cherry red with a black pick guard. It feels great while holding it and playing but i must say its very top heavy. The fretboard is made of rosewood with tapazoid inlays which i think looks great. The pickups are 2 humbeckers which give a really good full sound which is great for what i like to play (lostprophets, Blink 182, Oasis, really a bit of anythin but im not into all that really heavy metal). It has 22 ... more

A BIT OF CULTURE ********************** Taken from http://www.gibson.com/products/epiphone/​archive/epihistory/hist ory.html (sorry I don't know epiphone history by heart... if you are interested here you are) 1863: Anastasios Stathopoulos is born in Sparta, Greece. His father Nicolas Stathopoulos is a lumber merchant. 1873: Anastasios builds his first instruments (according to Epiphone literature of the 1930s). 1877: The Stathopoulos family moves to Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey. 1893: Epimanondas (Epi), named after a military hero in ancient Greek history, is born to Anastasios and his wife ... more

This was the second decent guitar I bought. I learned to play on a Les Paul copy, but the poor high fret access and weight meant that this guitar was difficult to play live. So an SG seemed an obvious progression, and why not a top-of-the-range Epiphone? The first thing that I noticed when took it out of its box was the colour. In the magazine it looked kinda vintage-white, but it looks much more yellow in real life. The playability of this guitar is very good. The neck is faily chunky, which suited me as a Les Paul devotee. The high fret access is virtually second-to-none, and the general ... more