 1961 full line catalog
 A truly sensational solid body guitar with features that win it top rating from professionals who appreciate its tonal range, instant response and easy action for professional performance
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 1962 full line catalog
Handsome Honduras mahogany body in a modern contoured design... all 22 frets above the cutaway
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 1964 full line catalogue
This is the first catalogue to show the new-style asymetrical Wilshire, 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 | Wilshire SB432 |
| Available | 1960-1969 |
| Pickups | 2 P90 single coil pickups or (after 1964) 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 dot 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. Optional Maestro vibrola (model SB432MV) |
| Finishes | Cherry, Black, White and custom colours: Sunset Yellow, California Coral, Pacific Blue |
A twelve-string version, the Wilshire-12 or SB432-12 had no vibrato and a double sided headstock; 6 tuners per side
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 Wilshire (particularly the early P90 model) corresponds to the Gibson SG Special.
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.
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