Epiphone acoustic archtops from the 1960s

[nmiller]

I notice that Gibson kept using the old Epiphone body shapes for the Deluxe, Triumph and Zenith until they were discontinued in the late 1960s. Do these guitars have a similar sound to the earlier Epiphones? There seem to be some good bargains out there simply because they're younger than the "classic" archtop era.

 

[cliffenstein]

I don't see why not...they would be all-solid and made by Gibson at their Kalamazoo factory.

 

[nmiller]

I'm sure they sound good, but I'm really wondering if Gibson changed the bracing, etc. or stuck to the original designs.