Epiphone ft-134

This is a small body guitar, "OOO" or grand-concert guitar, with a satin finish on top and dark woods for the neck and sides and back. It has factory tuners, very nice ones, for a guitar of this age they still turn like butter. The bridge is adjustable, via a pair of screws on either side (something that will soon be corrected). The wood appears to be solid, but research of ft's built at the time seem to indicate laminates, if it is a laminate it's a very nice laminate. The neck is bolt on with a big gibson-esque headstock with Epiphone written in mother of pearl script across the top. Four-teen frets to the body and another 6 frets after that. The neck, according to my friends is wide, but it feels very comfortable to me. The neck looks like rosewood to me. I really don't know about the year, the guy I bought it from seems to think it was made in 1970, but I think it was probably made a few years later, just due to the fact I know that an ft-130 was made in 74-76. The body shape is shallow, very comfortable with a deep curve making it sit really nicely over my leg. There is a tortoise-shell pickguard with a gibson hummingbird shape to it. It was made in Japan. The guitar for a small acoustic is very heavy, which usually is considered a bad thing, but it feels very solid to me and the sound, as I'll discuss later, it not hampered by it at all.
A very plain, but pretty guitar, the bolt on neck, looks funny on the small body, but nothing that bothers me too much.

The sound on this guitar just blows me away. I bought this via craigslist, and did some research on some other Epiphones of the era, according to the professional opinion, they're crap, but then I noticed the super positive reviews for the ft-130 a related guitar on here for a similar time period. I go to get it and it's buzzing, dull. I get home, find a loose nut, adjust the bridge and it just came to life. The sustain is amazing. The top four strings sound like angels, hammer-down's and pull-off's just sing. Chords pop, every single string can be heard, there is no muddle blahs here. I have played some very high end, acoustics that didn't voice like that. The two low strings are a bit muted, but that's expected with a smaller body. The guitar is bright and projects, and the only word that comes to mind again and again, is it just sings! It sounds amazing playing blues runs on it, or jazz, fingerpicking excels.

The action is too high. Not uncommon with an adjustable bridge. Even with the adjustable bridge all the way down it's too high. I'm going to replace the bridge. That said, even with an action too high for me taste, it was very easy to play. This guitar is anywhere between 40 to 35 years old and was very well taken care of, it feels very solid, with only two tiny hairline cracks in the top, that you'd have to look hard to see, these don't affect the sound at all. The guitar appears to me to have been very well made.

The age of this guitar and it's very solid feel makes me think it has definitely proved itself durable.

Non-existant

I am so, so, so, stoked by the sound and feel of this guitar I feel like I found my guitar. For years I played dred's, and my current other axe is a Advanced Jumbo. But when I sit this "OOO" in my lap that just sings, I feel like I found home.

This is a small body guitar, "OOO" or grand-concert guitar, with a satin finish on top and dark woods for the neck and sides and back. It has factory tuners, very nice ones, for a guitar of this age they still turn like butter. The bridge is adjustable, via a pair of screws on either side (something that will soon be corrected). The wood appears to be solid, but research of ft's built at the time seem to indicate laminates, if it is a laminate it's a very nice laminate. The neck is bolt on with a big gibson-esque headstock with Epiphone written in mother of pearl script across the top. Four-teen frets to the body and another 6 frets after that. The neck, according to my friends is wide, but it feels very comfortable to me. The neck looks like rosewood to me. I really don't know about the year, the guy I bought it from seems to think it was made in 1970, but I think it was probably made a few years later, just due to the fact I know that an ft-130 was made in 74-76. The body shape is shallow, very comfortable with a deep curve making it sit really nicely over my leg. There is a tortoise-shell pickguard with a gibson hummingbird shape to it. It was made in Japan. The guitar for a small acoustic is very heavy, which usually is considered a bad thing, but it feels very solid to me and the sound, as I'll discuss later, it not hampered by it at all.
A very plain, but pretty guitar, the bolt on neck, looks funny on the small body, but nothing that bothers me too much.

The sound on this guitar just blows me away. I bought this via craigslist, and did some research on some other Epiphones of the era, according to the professional opinion, they're crap, but then I noticed the super positive reviews for the ft-130 a related guitar on here for a similar time period. I go to get it and it's buzzing, dull. I get home, find a loose nut, adjust the bridge and it just came to life. The sustain is amazing. The top four strings sound like angels, hammer-down's and pull-off's just sing. Chords pop, every single string can be heard, there is no muddle blahs here. I have played some very high end, acoustics that didn't voice like that. The two low strings are a bit muted, but that's expected with a smaller body. The guitar is bright and projects, and the only word that comes to mind again and again, is it just sings! It sounds amazing playing blues runs on it, or jazz, fingerpicking excels.

The action is too high. Not uncommon with an adjustable bridge. Even with the adjustable bridge all the way down it's too high. I'm going to replace the bridge. That said, even with an action too high for me taste, it was very easy to play. This guitar is anywhere between 40 to 35 years old and was very well taken care of, it feels very solid, with only two tiny hairline cracks in the top, that you'd have to look hard to see, these don't affect the sound at all. The guitar appears to me to have been very well made.

The age of this guitar and it's very solid feel makes me think it has definitely proved itself durable.

Non-existant

I am so, so, so, stoked by the sound and feel of this guitar I feel like I found my guitar. For years I played dred's, and my current other axe is a Advanced Jumbo. But when I sit this "OOO" in my lap that just sings, I feel like I found home.