Epiphone has two really interesting guitars they are about to release. First is a reissue of the Nighthawk. Epiphone had a Nighthawk model back in the 90’s for a short time which was based on the Gibson model of the same name. It has a mahogany body, AAA flame maple veneer top and a 25.5″ scale. The most unique thing about it is the 3 pickups it has. A NHR mini-humbucker neck, center NSX single coil and a alant NHT humbucker in the bridge. Price should be $399. Here’s a demo from Epiphone showing all the possible tones which includes push pull coil splitting on the two humbuckers.
Up next is the Worn 1966 Wilshire with a redesigned tremotone. It’s got a mahogany body, mahogany neck with a 24.75″ scale, and two mini-humbuckers. I’ve always thought those old tremotone equipped Wilshires had the coolest looking trem systems going. Not sure how well they work, but these are supposed to be “redesigned”. Street pice is $449
