 1961 full line catalog
 Body is solid mahogany with attractive shell celluloid pickguard. Mahogny neck with adjustable truss rod.
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 1962 full line catalog
It provides big performance for students and professionals, too - at a very affordable price.
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 1964 full line catalogue
The Olympic shown in this catalogue still has the old symetrical Epiphone body style - unlike the other solid-bodies which are all shown with the 'new' style |
 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 | Olympic SB722 | Olympic SB722D | Olympic SB722 3/4 |
| Available | 1960-1969 | 1960-1969 | 1960-1963 |
| Pickups | One melody maker style single coil pickup | Two melody maker style single coil pickups | One melody maker style single coil pickup |
| Scale | 24 3/4" | 24 3/4" | 22 3/4" |
| Body | Solid mahogany.
1960-1961 Les Paul style single cutaway: 12 3/4" wide, 17 1/4" long, 1 3/8" thick
1961-1964 Les Paul style double cutaway: 12 3/4" wide, 17 1/4" long, 1 3/8" thick
1964-1969 Wilshire / Crestwood style double cutaway: 12 3/4" wide, 15 5/8" long, 1 3/8" thick
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| Neck | One-piece mahogany, rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays. No binding. Early models had a double sided headstock, changing around 1964 to the Epiphone batwing one-sided headstock |
| Frets | 22 | 22 | 19 |
| Hardware | 1 volume and 1 tone controls. Metal offset bridge with optional vibrola tailpiece. Plastic enclosed strip tuners. | 2 volume and 2 tone controls. Metal offset bridge with optional vibrola tailpiece. Plastic enclosed strip tuners. | 1 volume and 1 tone controls. Plastic enclosed strip tuners. |
| Finishes | Cherry, Sunburst 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 Olympic corresponds to the one-pickup Gibson Melody Maker, sharing hardware, body and neck woods and price tag. Both single-pickup instruments cost $149.50 in 1/10/66, double pickup models cost $179.50
Other than the Olympic and 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). The Olympic started out with a Les Paul style single cutaway body, changing to a double cutaway, and finally the aforementioned 'Epiphone' style.
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