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Published on 12/02/10 at 08:50
Manufacturing Korea.
Wooden easel.
2 humbucker Pickups Epiphone

UTILIZATION

Channel super nice, flat head, slightly curved in acute.
Access to the latest correct frets.
His net a little hard to get on the bass on the 6th string. It sizzles quite easily question may be a hoop, you have to work the touch.

SOUNDS

Classic Jazz, its OK with different amplifiers, neck pickup only (Rhythm)

OVERALL OPINION

I have benefited greatly from the forum to get advance information I needed.
It's my turn to return the favor and provide some information.

Subject: find a jazz guitar that sounds pretty good for working in acoustic "unplugged" in different parts of the apartment.

My teacher advised me Epiphone guitar for the price / quality ratio, it remained to choose the model of:
ES-175 Archtop - Reissue 3 / 4 body 2 Alnico V Classic humbucker
Emperor Regent 3 / 4 body 1 floating humbucking micro mini Epiphone
Broadway 3 / 4 body 2 humbucking pickups Epiphone
Joe Pass Emperor II 1 / 2 body Bridge: Alnico Classic Humbucker, neck: Alnico Hot Humbucker
Sheraton II 1 / 2 box girder Neck: Alnico Classic HB Bridge: Alnico Hot HB

Test its acoustics:
Sheraton II, little more than his guitar to full bodied, probably because of the beam.
Joe Pass Emperor II, a little less than my old guitar that his study first prize, but it was something.
Emperor Regent Archtop: sound of a folk guitar midrange.

Microphones criteria:
I did not have insurance but it seems to me that this is the same for all models, except perhaps the Regent. The Epiphone neck is quite correct, it does little jazz bridge pickup. The model allows Regent to the economy of the bridge pickup.

Availability:
Attention to their own. Could not see a single ES-175 across the street from Douai and its environs (November 2010). Having a single Emperor Regent and one Broadway, sold well above the posted price by mail order - from suppliers who do not stock and do not delay ... The real market is much smaller than the market catalogs. Purchase Period, the sake of better prices and resale potential activists to choose a current model.
Nothing found on occasion in Paris and the provinces posted prices unattractive.

U.S. Market
A look at mail-order sales in the States gives a price range rather different from France. Là_bas the ES 175 is oddly very expensive, it is perhaps why we do not find in France. For others it is 75% of France without the port, without after-sales and with the unknown customs, I do not think the game worth the candle.

Manufacturing
I noted the board to select Korean, exposure is found equally Korean and other countries (Malaysia, China) and mail no way of knowing, he must buy a pig in a poke.

Conclusion
I took a Joe Pass Emperor II exhibition, available in stores, labeled "Korea" set by the seller, of course with confidence in its possibilities after purchase, with new ropes for 10 € more than The cheapest market in mail order, to carry on. I did not choose the color ...

I'm stoked, handle great, good mechanics, good sound with jazzy neck pickup, no blemishes.
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