 1961 full line catalog
 Strictly modern and strictly wonderful. A new thinner double cutaway, solid body guitar in cherry red finish.
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 1962 full line catalog
The Coronet features a powerful and sensitive single pickup located for clarity of tonal response... with separate tone and volume controls for easy adjustment.
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 1964 full line catalogue
This is the first catalogue to show the new-style asymetrical Coronet, with six-a-side tuners |
 1966 full line catalog
Epiphone is proud to present solid body instruments that offer the depth, the sharp treble, the biting tone and the virility that all guitarists seek from a solid body instrument |
| Model | Coronet SB533 |
| Available | 1959-1969 |
| Pickups | 1 P90 single coil pickup, nickel covered with dogears (like the Gibson ES330) |
| Scale | 24 3/4" |
| Body | Mahogany. 12 3/4" wide (lower bout), 15 5/8" long, 1 3/8" thick |
| Neck | One-piece mahogany, rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays. No binding, 22 frets. Early models had a double sided headstock, changing gradually around 1965 to the Epiphone batwing one-sided headstock |
| Hardware | 1 volume and 1 tone control. Metal offset bridge. Plastic enclosed strip tuners. Optional Maestro vibrola (model SB533MV) 1961-65 |
| Finishes | Cherry, Black, White and custom colours: Sunset Yellow, California Coral, Pacific Blue |
The Epiphone solid-body range could be directly correlated to the Gibson SG range sharing many features; hardware, pickup configurations, body and neck woods, construction and controls. They were all made at Gibson's Kalamazoo factory, so this is not surprising. The Coronet corresponds to the Gibson SG Junior. In the 1/10/66 pricelist the Coronet was actually more expensive than the Gibson equivalent, $179.50 to $169.50 for the SG Junior
In 1959-60 a number of cherry-finished Coronets were ordered by the Dwight music store in America (111 in 1963 and 67), with a Dwight logo on the headstock, and a D instead of an E on the scratchplate.
Other than the Olympic Special, all 1960s Epiphone solid body guitars and basses had the same body style (almost symetrical pre-1964, with a shortened lower horn thereafter), they are the Epiphone Crestwood Deluxe, Epiphone Crestwood Custom, Epiphone Wilshire, Epiphone Coronet and Epiphone Olympic guitars, and the Epiphone Newport and Epiphone Embassy Deluxe basses.
In the 1970s the Epiphone (now Japanese manufactured) launched a new guitar dubbed Coronet, however with a model number ET275. This was a double pickup instrument with a similar body shape, but a bolt-on neck, and very different hardware.
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