Epiphone EJ160E John Lennon

This one doesn't have many features. Just a tone and a volume control. If you can't play then don't buy it!!!

Wow! What a great finish. I read that the Indonesians are happy workers-apparently so!! Its so pretty and fine!. I owned a made in Montana Gibson J 160 e IN THE EARLY 90'S. tHIS ONE IS SUPERIOR IN PLAYABILITY AND FINISH TO THAT AXE AND FOR A MERE 30% OF THE PRICE!!

The tone control was loose. My local tech tightened it up in a flash. That was the only thing wrong.

I would gig without a back up.

No problems so I can't say

Its an awesome axe. I need to own one always as I love John Lennon. My favorite thing is that the action is low and fast. Its a burner!!! It feels like a jazz guitar. I like to pretend I'm George Benson.... sort of anyway. It gets the " This Boy" tone -Wow!!!!

A few years ago I started using an acoustic more often on stage and I really didn't want to gig with my martin or Larrivee. I ended up selling the Martin D-18 and buying the EJ-160E and I've never regretted the move. The guitar came out of the box from Korea ready-to-play. The finish and construction made it beautiful and .. people just really like this guitar.. it's friendly and cool. Plugged in, the sound is not very usable, however, when compared to modern acoustic/electrics. I ended up adding an acoustic pickup and blending the sound from that with the magnetic pickup. A few hints here: Use DR Zebra strings (alternate wound steel and bronze) and get a Dean Markley Suppressor. I also run the output through an Acoustic Guitar processor and EQ - the result is great. I love this guitar!

I use it for a wide range of playing from classic Beatles-style to more modern acoustic songs. The sound is well balenced and slightly bright. I prefer the sound from the the slope-shouldered body to a dreadnaught. It's a little more present. I also think this guitar is improving with age.

The guitar was perfect out of the box. I've cut a few new saddles for it but only because I wanted to mess with it - not because it needed any work.

I gig with this guitar every week and it stands up well. I'm pretty careful with it but it seems very well-built.

No issues yet. I had a really hard time finding one of these guitars and Gibson was not helpful to my local guitar shop. After it was on order for 4 months, I found that Musician's Friend had received tons of them while my local shop (with a specific order in for me) got none.

I've been playing about 20 years. I play rock and country-rock. My main guitars are a '93 Strat American Standard with EMG DG-20 pickups, A gibson BluesHawk, Gibson Flying V.

This is one beautiful guitar. I have been playing for 40 years. I own a Martin D-18, 72' Les Paul, Strat, Tele, Gretsch...all played through a Vox AC30 and a Vox AC15. I was interested in this guitar for some time, but stayed away cos it was off-shore and I hate to say it...but I felt it was beneath me. Then I played a friends and was knocked out by it. First it looks dead on like John and George's Gibson J160. It has the smaller shoulders and jumbo body, easy access to the 12th fret, and the humbucking p/u where the neck meets the body. The high gloss body (poly...not nico) is refreashing in this age of Satin finish. It has a solid spruce top and feels just plain solid. It came with a great factory set-up and I can flat-pick the hell out of this axe.

As far as the acoustic sound goes, it is amazing. This guitar sings, until you plug it in. When you hear the acoustic/electric aspect of this guitar, you find out where Epiphone cut costs. The sound is flat and very mid-range. Perhaps a graphic EQ pedal or another pick-up will cure this problem. But unpluged is where this guitar shines. Rich and resonant describes this to a tee.

The factory set-up was for once a great one. Everything about this guitar seems smooth and matched. They obviously paid attention to the detail on this guy. And quite frankly, detail is where the really off shore guys seems to not spend a lot of time at. So this one is refreshingly different.

The hardware will probably go first. That is what I have found in off-shore guitars. But I expect it, so I don't use durability of machine heads and knobs and pots as a standard for these guys. If the sound is great..and this one is, then I feel I have gotten my money's worth. I will gladly replace pieces as years go by.

Don't know. Haven;t had the opportunity to deal with them.