Epiphone

Epiphone Cortez (1965)

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This 1965 Epiphone Cortez has just come in for consignment! Sporting the optional (and very cool) iced-tea style Sunburst finish and the "wider slim neck" (i.e. 1 9/16" instead of 1 5/8"), this is a great-sounding example of a Cortez perfectly suited to a player who values sound over cosmetics. The Cortez was Epiphone's answer to the Gibson B25 ~ essentially, their "LG" body modestly redesigned for the folk era. This one sounds suprisingly good under a flatpick and exhibits beautiful shimmer when fingerpicked as well.

Condition: this is a player-grade guitar, which is stable and solid, but has had the following repairs. A new Brazilian Rosewood bridge has been installed to cover the footprint of another, previously installed, oversized bridge. Several cracks have been repaired, including a now-invisible headstock crack which has been finished over. It has also been refretted with EVO wire -- all work done by noted luthier, and friend of TME, Laurent Brondel. Priced with a non-original hard case. On consignment; shipping calculated at checkout.

Materials

Top
Spruce
Back & Sides
Mahogany
Neck
Mahogany
Fingerboard
Brazilian Rosewood
Bridge
Brazilian Rosewood (replacement)
Nut
Bone
Saddle
Bone (Drop-In)
Tuners
Kluson
Finish
Gloss Nitrocellulose lacquer

Neck Specs

Carve
Medium C
Nut Width
1 5/8"
String Spacing
2 1/8"
Scale Length
24 3/4"
Inlays
MOP Dots
Headstock
Epiphone block script logo

Other

Serial Number
319739
Case
Non-original Hardshell