So I ended up just recently replacing the pickups. but still wasn't quite getting the bright sound I was looking for. I'll crank the treble on my amp and completely cut the mids and bass. But I don't have access to anything else. Maybe a better amp would serve me well (I just play out of an Orange Crush 35RT). That plus the metal covers, it sounds pretty muddy and uninspiring. From what I have gathered online, they are WAY overwound (like to the tune of 14k). but I also just happen to like the sound of a wound G a bit better anyway) (I'm sure a proper setup would have also fixed things up and not required a wound G. Plays really well! I have had some slight intonation issues with the G string, but that fixed up nicely after I put a set on with a wound G. The guitar build and quality is actually quite impressive, IMO.

The current Casinos are good entry-level and intermediate instruments and are still one of Epiphones best-selling guitar models.I own a 2020 natural finish, MIC. These guitars, although still adequate instruments, are not to the same standard as the real Casinos produced in the 1960s.

Beyond 1969, Casino manufacture was moved to Japan, and later Korea and China. Original Kalamazoo-built Casinos are highly collectable, and much-loved as professional-grade instruments. Vintage Epiphone Casino sale prices can be pretty high. John Lennon, in particular was often pictured with his Casino, most notably in his Apple rooftop performance of 1969. It's legendary status was cemented in the mid-1960s by the patronage of members of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks and many more. The vast majority were dual-pickup instruments, however some early examples were fitted with just one P90 pickup. It was first produced in 1961, at the Gibson Kalamazoo plant it was based on the Gibson ES-330TD, which was also built there. The Epiphone Casino is an absolutely iconic model, perhaps the best-known Epiphone model ever shipped.

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