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Comes with original Epiphone Casino hardcase with key. It’s also a very smooth player and those original dog ear P90s sound immense. Neck is dead straight truss rod checked and functioning fine, plenty of life left in the frets.

You get all the gentle good-looking ageing with none of the ugly stuff. The guitar is a stunner and is ageing very gracefully, with uniform surface patina on the pickup covers, bridge, and trapeze tailpiece. It's had the pickguard removed but the rubber left as a nod to Lennon's famous stripped Revolution Casino. The nickel ABR-1 bridge has the correct 'Made in Japan' text on the underside, and the orange oval label visible through the F hole has the correct five digit serial for Terada factory production (4 for the year, 5 for the Casino model, and three digits for the production number). The electronics are all untouched, with nickel pickup covers on the P-90s and the gold reflector cap knobs on the Volume and Tone controls are original. The neck and headstock is showing some seriously nice maple flame! The condition is superb for a Japanese Casino. This one is a good solid weight for a Casino at 3kg with a very comfortable three piece maple neck on the slightly thinner side as is usual with these. The modern Chinese guitars can't touch them.

The build quality is exceptional and to us, the Terada models feel like no other casinos. Japanese Epiphone Casinos are consistently superb in our opinion, we have never had one we didn't love. These are the guitars that precede the modern Elitist line. It’s one of the essential rock & roll hollowbodies.

Built in Japan at the Terada factory this is the guitar made famous by The Beatles, especially loved by John Lennon, even into his solo career. You are looking at an all original Japanese Terada-built Epiphone Casino in natural gloss finish from 1994 with a really special figured birdseye maple top.

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