[fogdart]

Coolest guitar on the site in yeeeeaaaaaaarrrrrs!

 

[Greenbacker]

Nice!

 

[Strummer70]

Very cool!

 

[Larrivee]

And with the famous Bikini Badge!!

 

[Tone Chaser]

If I owned that guitar, I would not be able to let it leave my collection. I haven’t even played it, but it visually checks all the boxes for me.

 

[2manyGuitars]

So you’re trying to tell me your Epiphone is as good as a Gibson?

 

[BlueRocker]

Coolest guitar I've seen here in a long time. I'm certainly no expert in vintage Gibsons (or Epiphones in this case) but this seems like a fair offering. GLWTS.

 

[terminalvertigo]

If I owned that guitar, I would not be able to let it leave my collection. I haven’t even played it, but it visually checks all the boxes for me.

Thanks!

It's indeed really great. I have a Pelham '65 SG Junior with a neck profile I prefer (smaller nut& width)

Both @faracaster and @GuitarTalk have had in in their hands, perhaps they can provide some insight as well.

Coolest guitar I've seen here in a long time. I'm certainly no expert in vintage Gibsons (or Epiphones in this case) but this seems like a fair offering. GLWTS.

Thanks Mate!

Definitely falls into the "find another one" territory.

 

[Tone Brothers]

Both @faracaster and @GuitarTalk have had in in their hands, perhaps they can provide some insight as well.

Sweet guitar… It’s so light that it feels like you’re holding a GuitarHero controller when standing up with a strap haha. The chunky 59’ neck somehow weighs nothing and is balanced with the body. If I played long live gigs (or was into doing Angus Young-style moves lol) I’d probably have bought it for myself before this was ever listed. Kinda tough to find another solid body, 2-pickup, vintage pre-61 workhorse at ~5.5lb for the price.

Fat, cutting tone, reminded me of my early 60’s LPJR on the bridge.

 

[mhammer]

I have a '64 "batwing" Coronet that also weighs next to nothing; maybe even less than this Wilshire. The light weight is wonderful, but some of the lightness stems from the too-thin neck it has. So, wonderful that this one adds a little of that weight back on where it counts and helps.

The one caveat of these, as well as the SG, is the fact that the neck joins the body at the 22nd fret. Because it is a set-neck, a bit of space needs to be left for the neck tenon to have a nice solid joint with the body. One of the consequences, visible in the pics, is that the neck pickup has to be moved back about an inch or more from the end of the fingerboard. This reduces the spacing between neck and bridge pickups, and so reduces the tonal contrast between them. It also makes the N+B setting a bit less distinctive from neck or bridge alone.

That said, I do prefer the LP/SG-style control arrangement here, in contrast to the obnoxious 4-in-line arrangement found on later Wilshires.

 

[King Loudness]

That's a wild ride right there. Good luck, not that you need it -- someone will be very happy with that guitar.

W.