~1966 Epiphone Howard Roberts Standard
Description
Excellent All Original Condition
Carved Spruce Top, Maple Back & Sides
Floating Johnny Smith Pickup
A relatively rare model, this has a carved spruce top with an oval soundhole and a Johnny Smith floating pickup, a variation of the Epiphone mini-humbucker. The top is voiced heavier than a purely acoustic archtop in deference to its intended role as an electric instrument. The oval sound hole-provides a warmer tone, with better response than f-holes.
Condition is quite good, with just Gibson's typical finish crazing. There's a "2" stamped on the back of the peghead under the serial number, which indicates it was a "second", but we can't find anything "second" about it.
I owned the Custom model a million years ago (because it had the oval sound hole), which was fancier than the Standard and had a different pickup. I remember thinking that the pickup on the Standard, the Johnny Smith pu was a superior pu tonally.
Carved Spruce Top, Maple Back & Sides
Floating Johnny Smith Pickup
A relatively rare model, this has a carved spruce top with an oval soundhole and a Johnny Smith floating pickup, a variation of the Epiphone mini-humbucker. The top is voiced heavier than a purely acoustic archtop in deference to its intended role as an electric instrument. The oval sound hole-provides a warmer tone, with better response than f-holes.
Condition is quite good, with just Gibson's typical finish crazing. There's a "2" stamped on the back of the peghead under the serial number, which indicates it was a "second", but we can't find anything "second" about it.
I owned the Custom model a million years ago (because it had the oval sound hole), which was fancier than the Standard and had a different pickup. I remember thinking that the pickup on the Standard, the Johnny Smith pu was a superior pu tonally.