 1961 full line catalog
 The professional player who wants the finest quality in a solid body guitar finds it in the Epiphone Crestwood Custom.
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 1962 full line catalog
A double cutaway model with two adjustable polepiece pickups, it offers superb tone, perfect response, fast easy action, low frets, plus solid body durability
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 1964 full line catalogue
This is the first catalogue to show the new-style asymetrical Crestwood, 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 | Crestwood Custom SB332 |
| Available | 1349 instruments shipped between 1959-1969 |
| Pickups | 2 mini humbuckers |
| 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 pearloid oval inlays. No binding, 22 frets. Early models had a double sided headstock, changing gradually around 1964 to the Epiphone batwing one-sided headstock |
| Hardware | 2 volume and 2 tone controls with 3-way selector switch. Tune-o-matic bridge. Epiphone Tremotone vibrato |
| Finishes | Black, White and custom colours: Sunset Yellow, California Coral, Pacific Blue. Cherry from 1966.
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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 Crestwood Custom corresponds to the Gibson SG Standard in terms of woods and construction, pickup configuration (although the Epiphone uses smaller humbuckers) and ornamentation. 60s Epiphones were not regarded as second class Gibsons, demonstrated by the fact that the Crestwood Custom actually costs more than the SG standrad, $340 vs $305 (1/10/66 pricing). It also sold less in its entire run than the Gibson sold year by year
Other than the Crestwood Custom 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 Crestwood Custom guitars, and the Epiphone Newport and Epiphone Embassy Deluxe basses.
In the 1970s the Epiphone (now Japanese manufactured) launched a new guitar dubbed Crestwood, however with a model number ET278. This was a double pickup instrument with a similar body shape, but a bolt-on neck, and very different hardware.
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