Epiphone ED-100 Acoustic

My Epi ED-100 is one amazing guitar. It has a sort of pine finish to it. Has 20 Frets. It plays amazing. I had one problem with it ever. and it was due to the fact of old age, the bridge started to snap on me and mad it harder to play. Once i got my new bridge for a nice price of about 20 dollars it plays amazing hands down.

I play all around music. Mostly acoustic music like Jack Johnson style. It really gets the job done. I have had guitarists that have been playing fro about 18 years come and say it plays really smoothly, and i concur. It can make really nice harmonix if you know how to do them. I have no dislikes about this guitar besides the the fact that the body is big.But it doesnt effect me that much.

Has a very nice clean finish

This guitar has been in my family for 20 years and still plays beautifully, enough said.

I never had to deal with them but epiphone i heard is really nice

It is a fantastic guitar id recommend it to anybody

it features 6 strings and plasticy plugs that hold em in,its an accoustic body stile kinda wide body,it has perty stuff in the tunage keys,like curly designs etched in,the neck is nice,not too big,i got small paws and have no problem reaching around it,the frets kinda stick out a little,the fret board seems curved and the frets dont curve with it,but only on the ends,no strap button on the top of the body,and it has a plastic strap button on the bottom?i dont know if theyre all this way as i havent seen em all,but mine is,so no strap for me,its the indoneisian make,no idea of its age,i think i counted 24 frets once but just as others have said you cant use em all cause theres no cut away,i would said its a solid top,its definitaly not a big sticker,i dont know what kinda wood it is but when you strum it real hard the hole smells good.i give 8 cause i wish it had a strap button,

i dont know how to play others music,i just make it up as i go along,but i can play 1 johnny cash song and the intro to dueling banjos.its sounds pretty awesome,its loud too,i had earnie ball super slinky strings on there and it wasnt so loud,after a year of abuse i broke strings,then girls little brother bought me new strings,dean markley medium,now its loud as hell.it really does sound good though,deep i would say,deep and loud

i got it from a dude that couldnt learn to play,i think he bought it stolen caus he paid $25 for it,thats what he said anyway,he gave it to me free.so it wasnt it great shape when i got it and its pretyy much the same,on the side of the fretboard there are little nubbs the size of a pinhead in,you dont notice it playing,but if you look directly at it in the light you can see it.

if i played live everyone would leave,i would play it live though and it would do fine,like i said there is only 1 button,its a tank,it will outlast me,i drink and play and i am clumsy,it is abused and it plays fine,keeps tune even dented my futon when i tried to throw it over ther and missed,the metal arm rest,the corner of the body bashed it and dented the metal,the guitar was fine,

no dealings with them

ive had it 3-5 years,closer to 5,its my only gear,i would get me another if i broke it if i could find one,if fits me real good,i have friends that have played it and ive never had a complaint,they all like it,it plays 'the road behind' like balsak.

Where to start. I walked into a pawn shop figuring to spend 200 dollars if I could find a Yairi or decent guitar that they hadn't looked up and put a retail price on. I bought a brand new Cordoba 50R with case last year for 150 bucks at this same place, so I know they let one slip by occasionally. I didn't buy this because I just had to have it, but because I figured it would be nice to have when I don't feel like putting an alternate tuning on one of my main guitars. I'm entering this primarily hoping someone will follow it up who knows something about it. Nothing - Nothing on the web. The finish is typical cheap guitar. Appears to be a solid top, but grain is sketchy. It's either spruce gone dark or a light cedar, I think. Rest of guitar is doubtless laminates, but very pretty rosewood veneer at least on back and sides. everything bound, front, back neck and there is opalescent purfling around body border and soundhole. Typical dreadnought. Looks like a knock-off of a Martin D-16 body, but with a much stockier neck and godawful epiphone shaped headstock with a big gold gawdy Epi printed into the veneer so you can't just detach the decal. I tried. Actually a pretty body on it, but like some people, spoiled by the head, typical of late 70's early 80's asian budget guitars. Epiphone did make a guitar in the late 40's that I think was called a D-16, but this isn't anything like that. I don't know when it was made. It has a serial number, but post 70 serial numbers don't mean much. Not as terrible as one would think since 1-It's a taiwanese Epi from the bad old days. 2-Its an old beater. 3-it cost 70 dollars-with cheesy case. Am enclosing email If anybody knows anything at all about these things, tell me please. Everytime I pick it up, I'm pleasantly surprised. With new 12-52 strings on it, it's a little dream machine. It was dirty and looked scratched up when I got it, but a little liquid gold and some fret dressing/fretboard oil put it right. I got a steal, but this is still a cheesmo guitar. T'aint no Lowden or Breedlove, but it does fingerpick okay

I wish I knew what it's actually made of. It's louder than my Guild d-30, and it's bright and crystal clear without being tinny in the least. The bass is crisp and deep, but not at all boomy. Very good separation and distinction of notes in chords. Actually playing up around the nut it sounds like an outstanding guitar, not that different from its Martin namesake, but without the complex overtones, and there are some spots where you get a funny falling out and vibration. When I first snagged it at the pawn shop I was comparing it to the other guitars, which were the usual ragged team of takamines, ibanez's, fenders and a coupla alvarez. They had what looked to be a nice old Alvarez 5022 which was what caught my eye, but its bridge had pulled up, as many of the old Alvarez's do, and this thing, which I picked up because it was weird looking, kicked all the other beaters big time. I'm giving this a seven, figuring 10s should go to Breedlove's, Collings, Taylor #10 series and good Martin's and Gibsons, etc. This sounds better than any solid wood washburn I ever heard, and no Fender or Ibanez would touch it.

Hard to say what the setup was originally, but this sucker has a sweet neck, even though it's thick, like half a baseball bat. finger board is either rosewood or faux rosewood, bound neatly, fret ends covered. Glue job looks atrocious, but there's no buzz from inside. The purfling and binding are well done. As long as you don't look inside, it's tight. I figure it's early eighties and there is no pull up on bridge, no loose finish around the neck. I can't imagine anybody ever troubled to have a tech work on this thing, so I'm guessing it was set up pretty well out of the box. Again, this might just have been done on a great day in Taiwan, but the frets, though old, are unscarred and the action is buttery, not very different from a good guitar, better than the Epiphone Masterbilts i've tried out. Tuners are original I'm sure, and look cheap, but are very smooth and not terribly low ratio, probably in the 12 to 1, area. It holds its tune very well.

Dang, here's what I know. Somebody bashed this thing hard enough to push the wood in the lower right bout over the purfling/binding in the front and the back. You can feel it, but you can't see it. Still, no rattles, no buzzes and neck joint is rock solid. Looks like they used one helluva lot of glue assembling it, but maybe that was a good thing. It's not the thing an adult would play live, except on a street corner or around a campfire, but I've no doubt it could handle anything short of swimming.

Epiphone is supposed to be good, but this is an old Norlin "Epi" and I doubt anybody's going to own up to it at this point. But this is just non-applicable on a 70 dollar pawn shop guitar.

I've been playing (poorly) for thirty years. I've been in bands, and played with folks for fun, but mostly just goof around at the house and try to get decent recordings of my silly songs. I look for either a sweet deep tone or a bright clear tone that seems to jump out of the guitar. This is not ideal, but not terrible either.

Shure microphones love this thing. As seventy dollar guitars go, it's a twelve. As real dreadnoughts go, it would probably be a good buy, were it new, for 300 dollars, but I'm sure the materials are questionable. But what the heck. Rainsong and Garrison and Ovation have been using weird materials to produce great sound for awhile now. This thing sounds better than anything I can go buy for 300 dollars, period, and no, I don't know why. I don't even like epiphones. I have several acoustics, guild d-30, guild 3ce maple a/e, takamine t400 12 and a carvin and godin electric, and a bunch of junk wall hangers. This thing is a player's guitar. For seventy dollars, unbeatable.

Decent looking guitar, probably laminated, although I'm not sure. The finish is nicer on the back and sides than on the top. The tuners are decent also, but I may change them to Grovers at some point.

Decent sound for an inexpensive guitar. I use it for folk, contemporary praise & worship and a bit of rock. I wouldn't say it has great sound, but it's not bad for the price.

The action is good. Not too high, not too low. As I said before, the finish is pretty nice on the back and sides, but not the front.

Pretty solid guitar for the price I paid. I bought it as a beginner's guitar and will soon be buying a better guitar, but would keep this as a backup I could just knock around with.

I have only been playing since January 2003 and bought this as a cheap beginner's guitar. I got it on sale at $70 and have been very satisfied with it.

This is a pretty good and inexpensive guitar. It was made in Indonesia. 20 frets but no cut, so you can really only play to about the 15th fret. It has a mahogony body and rosewood fretboard. Theres no finish on it so you dont get a pretty shine. Its got a 25 and a quarter inch scale on it, Im pretty sure of it. It doesnt come with any accesories.

I play everything from Metallica to the Mamas and the Papas. It sounds pretty good for a cheap little guitar. But I always have problems tuning the high e string. But this guitar sounds real good for its price.

The biggest problem i had were the stock strings. When i tuned the g string, it snapped on me. Well, I dont really like the action on this guitar. I always seem to get fret buzz, especially on the 4th and 5th frets. To avoid this you have to press REALLY hard on it. This also makes playing barre chords terrible. The guitar body itself looks like the lining of my cupboard. It looks like cheap wallpaper. But what can I say. The best thing that i found from this geetar is probably the tuners. I can probably go through about 5 days of playing and about three hours a day without major tuning problems.

This guitar probably would withstand playing live, since its built like a block of steel. When I was sitting on a bunk bed, i rested it on my knee, leaving the headstock in the air. I layed down on the bed and the guitar banged the top bunk at about a million miles an hour. The guitar worked perfectly still, and it only left a small dent on the corner of the headstock. The tuning machines werent affected at all.

never dealt

Ive been playing for only about 6 months (i know, im still a rookie), so this guitar has fit my needs pretty well. I own a epiphone les paul, another good product from this daughter company of gibson. If i lost or stole this, i wouldnt be too bummed. Its a pretty cheap guitar. If i needed an acoustic, id get a gibson hummingbird (that guitar is beautiful). I just wish that this guitar didnt look like the inside of my drawers.

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This is a great sounding guitar...it's good for playing any type of music. ive even written rock tabs with this guitar. It really has a great sound, The string that come with it arent that great but if they need to be changed i suggest the D'addario strings

great action on the guitar. the guitars got a darker brown finish to it. theres not much more to say exept for the fact that its a good looking guitar

the guitar itself is very reliable. the finish has lasted 3 years so far, the strap buttons are solid. I will use this guitar when playing live without a doubt

not needed so i guess its a 10

this is truely an amazing guitar 4 the price i payed. It has lasted me 3 years so far and i look forward to playing live with it. it has a great color and rosewood finish to it, if this was an acoustic electric it be phat!!!!!!

Technically an Epi ED-100/NS, made in Indonesia. Epi is a division of Epiphone, which is owned by Gibson, which makes guitars for rock stars.

Sound is produced by stimulating a "string" (of which there are six provided with this model), which vibrate at between 83 and 330 times per second, depending on the string in question -- well within the range of human hearing.

The sound is amplified in a hollow, resonant chamber which can either rest on the users lap, or be strapped to the user's stomach. The sound escapes through what is coloquially known as a "sound hole."

The pitch of each note can be modified by shortening the length of the string (and thus the vibrations per second) by placing one or more fingers behind "frets." There are 20 or 21 frets, depending on whether or not the user counts the "open" position as a fret. Additionally, this particular unit is fitted with six knobs (which the manufacturer refers to as "pegs") controlling the tautness of each individual string, thus allowing the user to altercate the pitch produced in the "open" position.

Dyanamics are controlled in the user domain by the velocity at which each string is struck. Timbre, too, can be controlled -- by striking the strings at various positions, different series of overtones are produced.

I spent the last... hmm, two, close to three years looking for the best cheap-ass acoustic on the market. I was close to sold on a mediocre $150 Takamine when I met my indonesian wunder-childe.

As we all know, the problem with cheap-ass acoustics is that they sound (tinny, toy-like, insert your favorite negatively-charged adjective that technically has nothing to do with acoustics but that we all use anyway) when we want them to sound (warm, phat, insert your favorite postively-charged adjective, etc., etc.). This guitar has proven itself to be an exception to that rule. It sounds -- if you'll pardon the phrase -- wicked dope.

It makes itself at home in a variety of styles. This specific guitar has been used for indie-rock, country, psychedelic, hip hop, industrial, cajun, folk (fingerpicking), and the intro to a punk song. I.e. it's an acoustic guitar. But it's a wicked dope acoustic guitar.

That said, there's a slight intonation problem with the low E string. But it *is* slight. You can avoid it by playing carefully, but being the lazy bastard that I am I generally just mute the string with my thumb. Thus, if you're a granola-eating folk singer, you're probably playing well enough that it won't be a problem. And if you're a granola-eating rock star like me, you won't care.

I have encountered many acoustic guitars that are not fond of alternative tunings. This guitar does not suffer that particular character flaw. As I write this, it is in DADFAD, and it is smiling at me.

It is calling to me. I must give it my love.

It feels like most other steel-strings to me, but I suppose the action is a little bit higher than other guitars. Granted, I still have the stock strings on it (as I generally change strings about once every two years), so swapping those puppies out might help a bit.

Unlike the other reviewers that gave the finish high marks, I think this guitar looks like poo. I mean, really -- this is the second most ugly acoustic guitar I've seen in my life (the first being one of those fire-truck red dealies). It looks like it's covered with that fake wood wallpaper that is used to coat inexpensive made-from-particle-board furniture. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's what it is. If I tried hard enough, I could probably pull it off and cover it with my own wallpaper (a paisley pattern, for instance), but the effort-to-results ratio might not be worth it.

(Note: it is not ugly in a campy "so-bad-it's-good," atari 2600 kind of way. As previously stated, it looks like poo -- and there's nothing aesthetically pleasing about poo.)

Were I, say, a folk singer and people would be looking at this guitar up close for an extended period of time, I might think about getting a different guitar. Rock star that I am, the fans only see me as a fly-spec on a distant stage, and thus the finish is not essential.

You know the guy that you lend your guitar to and then he drops it? And scratches it? And bangs it into amps, lamps, desks, groupies and belt-sanders? That's me. I'm that guy. I try to care for my gear, really. But I fail dismally. If I touch a musical instrument, that musical instrument will forced to indure an unimaginable degree of physical pain.

So as this guitar has been cohersed into being in close proximity to -- well, me -- for some time now, it has suffered accordingly. Due to it's particle-board nature, I have attempted to bestow upon it a higher degree of comfort than what I would afford to, say, a boss pedal. I.e. I don't throw it unless I'm aiming for something very soft. Regardless, it has held up like a champ!

Every guitar I own has wound up with knocked-out tuning pegs, save this one. That might be due strictly to luck or the aformentioned tenderness and thus might not be reflective of the instrument's durability.

Or maybe it is.

I give it an eight simply because I have to coddle it like a fuzzy little kitten and can't smack it around -- the way god intended musical instruments to be treated.

I havn't dealt with Epi.

But I can tell you about Mars Music, where I purchased this fine instrument.

I go into the acoustic room, and eventually pick out this little guitar. I take it out to purchase it, and a commission-hungry salesman pounces on me, asks if I'm ready, snatches the guitar away from me, puts it behind the counter and tells me he'll be right back.

And then disappears.

I watch the band that's playing their in-store battle-of-the-bands thing, and they suck. Ever notice that about in-store battle-of-the-bands competitions? I wait for a while longer, but still no salesman.

So I execute a one-handed vault over the counter, tuck the guitar safely under my arm, and do a dive-roll to the other register where some girl rings me up. I offer the commission to her, but alas the register girls can't recieve comisssion. Thus more money in the corporate coffers (abiet not much in this case).

Draw whatever lesson you so choose from this little antecdote.

I've been playing guitar for engh -- well, okay, let's say I've been playing _with_ guitars for about six years. And that pains me. There is no descernable rationale for me having played this long and still sucking this bad.

This is by far and away the best sounding guitar I've played in the sub-$300 market, and it's a contender in the sub-$500 market as well. Which means it's a spanky-good guitar. I mean, SPANKY good.

Everyone I know loves my guitar. They say "reve, reve, may I touch the eighty-nine dollar indonesian wunder-childe?" And I grant them permission. They touch, they play... and they are happy. And their happiness in turn give me happiness, and we all gather 'round and break into song. But they never want to give it back, and so I am forced to hit them. And then they cry.

So in summary: Buy this guitar. Then take the money you saved, and spend it on coke. You won't regret it!

It's a 20 fret made in 1997 6-string steel string acoustic , seems solid-top but I don't know. Most of it including the top is made of mahogany, except a rosewood fingerboard and bridge. Scale Nut Length: 25.5"
Nut Wide: 1.68" Body is a deadnought.

I play rock. However, this is my first guitar and know of nothing to compare sound quality. Overall, the sound is warm. It has no significant buzz except for the 5th and 6th string at 6th fret. However, the nut and the saddle is a pain. It is made of poor quality plastic and is badly moulded, thus causing some nut buzz especially for medium and thicker string gauges. The saddle also chips apart asily. It is recommended to change both of these.

The guitar was well set-up.
However, as for such value guitars, there are certain flaws present, like stretched finish, gaps within the frets. There is also the abovementioned nut problem.

Everything's solid!
But since it's only a month old, I can't confirm.

1 year warranty in the USA, I've heard.
However, since I live in Singapore, no such luck.

This is my first guitar.
Not much comments for here I guess.
Here's Epiphone's summary of the guitar: http://www.gibson.com/products/epiphone/archive/epiacoustic/2.html

This guitar has 21 frets but some can't be reached(no cut in). It's solid wood(not laminated) of some sort, but i'm not sure which one. The fretboard is made rosewood and the neck feels very good. It has 3 aside tuners and has dot inlays.

I play mostly rock and blues. I like to use this guitar for the bluesier cleaner things(as opposed to my strat). It has a great sound for the price of the guitar. There is hardley any buzzes or anything of the sort. There is about two places where this is fret buzz but that is about it. For being such a cheap guitar($100) it sounds and plays really well.

As far as the way it was setup, it was setup ok. The action on the thing was terrible. It felt like it was a mile of the fretboard. I got that fixed and now everything seems to be ok. The frets seem to be even and there is no visable glue or anything. The tuners work well and are in good condition. There are no scratches or bad spots in the wood. Overall it was set up ok.

I think this guitar could withstand live playing because the hardware and strap buttons and everything like that seem strong. I think I could depend on it for live playing. I would always have a backup if possible but if it is not possible than you shouldn't need one with this guitar.

I havn't dealt with them

I have been playing for about 2 and half years and I am in a band. This guitar has been great for when I have needed it. I love the neck on this guitar but I hated the action from the factory on it. If it was stolen I would probably go buy another one(it's only $100). I might would look into an acoustic-electric instead though. Overall it's a good guitar for the money.

Made in Indonesia '96. It has 21 frets, but like 4-5 of them can't be played on anyhow... Body is made out of some kind of wood.. ;) , and got quite a nice finish. The neck is standard rosewood I believe. Came with no accessories. Steel strings ofcourse.

This Guitar is great for fingerpicking (classical music) , and has a great sound as far as I'm concerned. My guitar has two problems. The upper E-string is almost always touching some of tuners on the fingerboard and makes a horrible sound. This is also true for the other E-string , but only on the 4-6 fret. The strings are abit thight, so barre chords are hard to play on the top. ie F.

Well, I told abit about this before... The finish is quite nice actually. And the guitar looks more expensive than it really is. The E-strings is the main problem.. but anyway, I should've seen this when I bought it. Guess it can be repaired .

This Guitar IS sturdy.. And I can't Imagine it ever rot or, deteriorate huhu... I've had it for about half a year and it looks brand new.. and I've played quite a lot.

Don't know.

A good guitar if it wasn't for the e-string problems, and the problem to play the barres close to the head of the guitar. Very nice finish, but I suppose it's not a beginners guitar.