Not just for jazz.. (ES-335)

Member Name: joeyer

Product:	ES-335
Date:	22/09/09 (13 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Sounds great, all rounder

Disadvantages: no backplate!

price paid : £280, bargain!

this guitar is lovely, its great to play, sounds amazing - for a lot of styles too. Ok it may not be the best guitar around ut for the price I am VERY happy. The neck is very fast and it came set up straight out of the box.
Just because it says epiphone on it doesn't mean it isn't quality.

The body is semi-hollow and made from maple, mine is ebony with a lovely cream binding. Being a semi-hollow gives this guitar such a nice tone, and it is very light for an arch-top guitar!

The fretboard is rosewood with white pearloid dot inlays, the neck also has binding which is ebony. The frets are really wide so gives you lots of space for adding style in your notes.

Other hardware includes grover tuners, tune-o-matic stop tailed design bridge, two chrome covered humbuker pickups with alcino coil magnets (black plastic mounts), chrome strap buttons and a tone and volume knob for each pickup. The hardware that this guitar comes with is of a very good quality and i would be surprised if any of it ever let me down.

The only problem with this guitar is it has no back plate, and this was a massive problem when my jack connector became lose and fell inside the guitars body! I managed to get it out but it would be nice to have a back plate for easy access to the electronics of the guitar.

Overall this is a good guitar for any player, but please please always try out a guitar before you buy it as a lot of it comes down to personal taste.

Summary: great guitar for any player