I have a 1976 Epiphone ET-290.
It is one of my favorites and has been for quite a while. Has it been hanging in the shop for a long time or just recently show up?
Is it molested, or appear original?
Just ask them for their best out the door price: you just might be surprised.
I would buy another for that price. In B.C. that isn't much money. Going out to dinner a couple of times costs that much.
Those guitars set up really nice. Two of the neck plate screws under the neck pickup may need to be shortened if you lower the action and adjust the pickups. Mine actually interfered with lowering the neck pickup.
These guitars actually have a nice jazz guitar tone, and can nicely overdrive a tube amp. Add an old school fuzz, compound it with a phaser, vibe, trem, or some other simple mod pedal, and be prepared to smile.
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