Epiphone G-400 Korina

The G400 I purchased is a spectacular electric guitar. Although guitar that has a "made in korea" label on the back of the headstock somehow indicates the workmanship are less competitive than "u.s made" but, after i pick up this guitar and plug it in to the amp and play, man, i can tell you that this Korina wood body solid top guitar just sounds incredible! with two volume control, gibson alnico mag pick up and factory setup can easily knock out those luxury guitar.

I played flamenco for over 10 yrs and and attempt to apply those techniques on e-guitar just for fun. I tried it on different models and it didn't work and just make it sounds worst. fortunatly, this small baby with everything in a complete package just assist my dream comes true! What kind of sounds i get from G400. you name it, I have it!

the factory set up is low and this is what i like. better tuner will provide better sactisfaction to customer.

100% reliable~

I dare you to pick up one and test drive it from your local music store and i am sure that your ears will tell you the facts! Enjoy~

Korina body and neck, two "Gibson designed" humbuckers, 22 frets, Rosewood fingerboard, and a neck like a baseball bat.

I play Doom/Stoner metal (I hate using the term "Stoner"...think Electric Wizard and Saint Vitus, not *gag* Fu Manchu) and this guitar handles it sufficiantly. My rig consists of an Orange Graphic 120 head and a Green 4x12 with Fane speakers. For effects, I've got a Roland Fuzz/Wah and a Dunlop Jimi Hendrix wah. No noise gates or parametric EQs or any of that bullshit.

I'm not a big gear freak. I like my stuff old, used, battered, and most of all, CHEAP. I like the Epiphone because it's one less thing that I have to worry about. It's not a $3200 custom Jackson that I have to worry about breaking. It sounds fine, keeps tune fine, and looks good.

The usual for a $600 guitar. The action was a little too low and the nut was a crap. A little tweaking and a nice new brass nut fixed that. The pickups sounded very good, but even if they had been real Gibsons, they bridge one would've been swapped with a DiMarzio Super 3.

I don't notice any flaws, but then again I didn't look. I don't care. I just play the fucking thing.

The tuners were fine. no problem.

This is my main gigging axe. No problems so far. It's gotten alot of playing, and the finish seems to be holding up.

I haven't dealt with Epiphone.

A good axe for anyone not wanting to fork out for a Gibson. But, I must add, if you have the cash for this guitar, just buy the Gibson Faded SG.

If it were stolen, I'd just do what I always do when some fucker steals my property. I'd get it back in a violent way. :)

this is a 2001 korina sg. traditional 2 volume 2 tone knobs, 2 humbuckers and a 3 way selector. what makes this guitar different is that the body is made of korina. made in some guitar sweat shop in korea. this sg has a fat fuckin' neck that for me took some time to get used to, i have been playing a epi flying v and a hamer both with pretty thin necks. but i am used to it now, and i am starting to prefer the fat neck.

the tuners are pretty good. they hold tune better than any epi's i have seen before. i know a lot of people don't like the epi tuners, me included. i guess it like luck of the draw cause i own 2 epi's and one has shitty tuners and the ones on this one are pretty good.

i play mostly hardcore thrash PUNK, this guitar works great for me. i don't have a whole lot of money to buy an actual 61' reissue SG(i hate the full pick guards) by gibson is out of the question so i got the epi to get the look and sound for 1/3 of the price of a gibson. i use this guitar staight into a fender M-80 head with and AVATAR 4x12 cab. it sounds perfect for what i play most of the time. it produces a rich chunky heavy tone with an ability to switch over to a cleaner classic rock sound by rolling back on the volume knob. i find by messing around with the knobs you can get a ton of different sounds withough pesky foot pedal set ups. i can go from extreme hardcore thrash to garage punk to the who by just tweaking the knobs.

i got this guitar from bluer music in tennessee, you guys rule. this guitar was completely setup by them perfectly. intonation was perfect the pick up hieght perfect the strings were at the perfect hieght. the fish on these korina wood gutars is the coolest they look like no. 2 pencils, very beautiful golden colour. i am almost affraid to play it the way i do my others, in fear of scratching it all to hell.

the only beef i have with this guitar is that the neck wieght is very inproportioned to the body. the neck is maple(i think) the body is korina. and the korina is just so light it makes it kind of wierd.

i have had this guitar for a 5 days, but i have played non stop probaby allready have about 20 to 25 hours on it allready. so with that in mind i can only assume that it will age well. it looks like it will. the electronics are well put together. there is absolutly no static in the knobs or switch. the strap button are solid as fuck. i have this exact same style of buttons on another guitar i have and i have been known to toss in the back yard a time or two and strap has never slipped off. if you don't know what a guitar toss is, it when you throw your guitarover your shoulder it swings behind your back and you catch when it comes back around.

it has gold hardware, somthing i have never been to fond of untill i got this guitar. gold plating weres off pretty easily and quickly, tha t for one reason i don't care for it. the other reason is the shear tackyness of gold, can you say MR. T. but it goes really well with this guitars finish.

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i have only been playing for about a year. i picked up playing pretty latecopared to most, at 19. if this guitar guitar were stolen i would be kinda pissed since it sounds and plays so well i would call up the guys at bluer music were i got it and get another g-400 probly a black finish one. i have always been a fan of the SG style back even before i knew what a SG was. i knew angus played them, and there was one on the inside record sleeve to BAD RELIGION's SUFFER album, and that Ian Mackaye of FUGAZI plays SG's and he is some one i draw a lot of ispiration from so in some futile attempt this is me trying to be him i guess.

this guitar is a lot more versitile than others i own. its the only one i own the sperate knobs for the bridge and neck pick ups, and thats what i like most about it.

in the year i have been playing i have aquired a lot of cheap and crappy gear, that is quickly filling my room to were its petty hard to do a whole lot. this is now my numro 1 player. it surpasses my epi flying v even though it has emg pick ups not the stock epiphone ones. this guitar is just flat out better.

i would give this an overall rating of 9, just for the sound to price ratio, i don't think you can find a better guitar for cheaper than what i payed. i personally have not played a better guitar under 800 dollars that even rivals this guitar.

Made in 2000 in Korea, Korina wood body with gold hardware. 2 standard "Gibson Designed" epiphone humbuckers.

I play (try to) mostly heavy rock/metal, which this is good for, I use a Rocktek practice amp. The guitar generally sounds good, although, the tone pots on both pickups are noisy when turned. I tried to clean them with WD-40 but to no avail. I'm gonna get them changed. The neck pickup is fine, round sound, and mellow, the bridge pickup is ok, but a little tinny. I'm getting my DiMarzio X2N fitted soon, and I will get a suitable neck replacemrnt to mactch it. I use Dean Markley Signature Series strings (MED 11-52) and they rock on this guitar, they are now my favoured strings.

The guitar was well set up when I bought it as the shop had given it a once over already. I haven't had the need to adjust the pickups, but if I did, its simple. The finish on this thing was amazing. Absolutley no flaws or anything, super-flat laquer and gorgeous amber Korina wood. The only thing is those pesky tone pots.

I have neve played live so I dunno. The gold on the hardware is wearing off, but I kinda like the 'antiqued' look of the silver coming through. It is a very tough guitar though, I think it will last a very long time. Hardly ever goes out of tune - don't listen to what everyone says about those tuners, they are fine, and I dont mind the greenish tinge to them.

Never ever dealt with them. If there was a problem, I'd take it back to the shop where I got from and play hell with them.

I do love this guitar very much for a number of reasons.
1) It is built like a freaking tank, and the finish is excellent.
2) It has a very good sound for the money, just watch for those pots!
3) It has to be the most unique SG there is, even the sound (because of the Korina wood) is different from the standard Epi SG's.

I chose this guitar because everyone has an Epi Les Paul, I wanted something different but with a good sound. Also, how heavy are those Les Pauls? Jesus, you'd have to be a weight lifter to have that hanging round your neck. The G400 is light as a feather and can take abuse. Stolen? Yeah, I'd probably get another, but I'd be checking the pots, and I'd be changing the pickups too. That aside, its a very good guitar.

It's a beautiful guitar. The korina wood sounds great!
The neck is relatively fat.

I use a line 6 flextone plus (recommended). I like the sound. It has a warm bluesy tone. The stock pu's are kinda weak. My friend has a epi junior sg with duncan pu's. the new pick ups make it sound awsome. When I get some cash, I'm getting some seymoure duncans.

I had to smooth out the bridge teeth so my strings wouldnt get cut every week. The tuners are too sensitive.

overall the construction is good. The gold plating on the hardware is cheap and is starting to wear off after only one year.
The Output plug always comes loose even when tightened down.

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Ive owned it for a year. I'll either get new pickups for this guitar or sell it to my friend and buy a prs Santana SE. It's a good value for 350 . It's a solid starter guitar, better than a standard strat in my opinion. be ready to replace the pickups if you get this guitar.
Value is it's strong point.
looks like the Prs Santana SE. has better value.

*Same electronics as any Gibson
*Awsome gold colors and natural Korina wood!
*Two Humbuckers

*I like Rock, Blues and Jazz
*I use a Peavey Bandit 65 and a Carvin SX-200
*Not noisey at all
*Neck pick up: warm and full
*Bridge P/U: Thin and metally bright.
-Sound great on the neck but I won't use the bridge at all. I'm planning on switching the pick ups soon.

*Action: PERFECT!!!! LOW and SLEEK, Super-Fast!!!!
*No Flaws, Perfect frets...Yeow!!

*Very durable- My friend dropped it on its head and it still plays perfectly!

Buy this guitar and change the pick ups It is the best guitar I've owned (everything but pick ups) And I've owned/ played alot of guitars

I'm not sure of the year and place, but it's within 1 to 2 years old. All the features are the same as everyone else has already said. 4 knobs, gold hardware, stop tailpiece, and all that good stuff. The reason it's an 8 is because the tuners aren't the highest quality, but they're a hell of a lot better than people keep complaining about. For a sub $400 price, i'm not going to complain. They move smoothly, and I don't have a problem with them staying in tune. The other reason it's not a 10 is because on the pickups, the gold finish wears off. But I don't really care. It's still one of the most beautiful guitars I've ever seen, and I look around a lot.

I play rock of all kinds meaning with and without distortion and funky effects, and a little blues. This guitar sounds great! I have played through 2 peavey 100 watt amps, a peavey 200 watt; a Laney hard core series 60? watt, and a fender stage amp. They all sound extremely nice. It doesn't go as bright as a strat, but it can come close. It screams when you want it to, and it also booms. It is a very versatile guitar. A friend of mine who has been playing for about 7 years, owns a Fender Strat that he paid $700+ dollars for(which means that it is a good Strat, not a crappy one) loves this guitar. He recently did a concert and used it for all of the Cream songs he was covering. The only problem I notices was that the B string is kind of hard to get into perfect tune, but that is a minor one, and this guitar deserves the 10 I'm giving it.

As I already said, this guitar looks awesome. Looks aren't all that count though. The action wasn't to my liking, it was way too high for what I wanted, but that was easily fixed by loosening the #4#%? screw on the headstock under the plate. It's an alan wrench screw, and it only needed minor adjustment, and now the action is perfect. The bridge was fine, but I noticed someone else had a problem with strings breaking. This is probably because the bridge notches need to be filed a little more, so if you have that problem, try that. Everything else was great except for the stupid stickers they put on the pickups. It left this sticky s*#t on the hardware that was a pain in the butt to get off.

Here is the one category that I have a minor problem with. The bridge pickup goes out periodically, and I'm not sure if it's the switch or the pickup. Truthfully, it almost never happens so I've been too lazy to investigate it properly. I'm going to try messing w/ the switch, or taking a look at the pickup and maybe clean it out or something. Other than that, this guitar is wonderful.

haven't needed it...no problems

I've been playing for about 8 months now, and this is the only electric guitar that I own. But I have played some others and heard other people who are better than me play mine, and I can honestly say that this is a very good guitar, especially for the price. If it were lost or stolen, and I had the money, I would definitely get this guitar again. But I hear that Epiphone is a little hit and miss sometimes, meaning that their product isn't always a consistent quality. But that's just what I've heard. Sevaral people, including myself thing that this guitar sounds better through just an amp better than any of the similarly priced, and sevaral of the more expensive competition. The only thing I wish it had are smaller frets, because they allow you to play a little faster, but that's just what I think. Other than that, my experience with this guitar has been nothing but good, and if you get one, I hope yours is too. Because its such a beautiful guitar, that it would be a travesty if it wasn't.

This is an Epiphone G-400 with a Korina body and mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard. It's a kind of yellow-ish colour with a white pickguard. There are the usual SG controls and features (2 volume, 2 tone, 3 way pickup selection, tune-o-matic bridge) The hardware is gold coloured, but it is already starting to turn silver after about a year. The tuners are the shitty plastic ones they put on Epiphones and low end Gibsons, I've had to replace two cos they keep snapping. The neck is a fucking tree trunk, i've always played Fenders (slim necks) before this and I find it really uncomfortable at certain postions on the fretboard.

The style of music I most play is punk and hard/classic rock. It copes pretty well with most stuff, the neck pickup sounds quite weak and I would probably replace it (and maybe the bridge one?) if I had more cash I would replace them. I play through a Peavey Rage with the following effects- a digitech RP7 multi-effects thingy or a Boss DS-1, Boss Flanger, and a Boss Overdrive pedal. I've got no real problems with the sound, you get what you pay for, but compared to real Gibsons it does sound cheap.

I don't know how good it was set up at the factory, I bought it when it was 3 months old second hand. The pickups needed adjusted slightly, the bridge on was set far too high. The frets are well rounded, and I have no major concerns about the way the guitar is constructed, except those shitty tuning pegs. The only problem I have is about how the guitar is weighted- when worn with a strap the headstock constantly hanging lower than the body.

I don't know if I would play without a backup, seems kind of flimsy. The finish on the hardware will last no more than 6 months max. The finish on the guitar seems solid enough- no noticeable dings or scratches. The bottom strap button is also loose (currently held on with black tape) due to the top heavy nature of the guitar.

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I've been playing for about 2 years, and out of all the shitty guitars I've had this is the best. Don't think I would replace it if lost or stolen though. Looking back, I wish I had held off and got a Mexican Standard Strat. Overall the guitar is OK, don't get me wrong, it looks nice enough and the sound is alright, but I think there are too many stupid thins that bug me about it- like the weight and the tunin pegs. I think it's time to move on now and sell this and buy the Strat.

Standard SG features... two humbuckers, tone control on both ect ect... I think the wood, though, changes the sound just enough to set it slightly apart from other epiphone SG's.

I run it through VOX wha>BOSS CS-3 comp.>Big Muff Pi>Small Stone>Line6 delay>'87 Marshall JCM 800 and it sounds great. I would definitly recomend this over a few low end Gibsons, (a FEW) and it works well for all kinds of styles (I am a big pumpkins fan and it works fine for that).

Intonation didn't come too well and I had to fix it myself. Also the tuners on it really suck and get stuck (especially on the g string). The only other problem i had was with the bridge pickup cutting out (but I just cleaned the inside a bit and it was fixed). other than that, it's been a reall great addition to my collection.

The Korina has been very sturdy these past few years and I have giged with it fine. I just worry abotu it though, because it is a very beautiful guitar. The gold has worn off of the pickups a bit as well.

This is a great guitar and I would recomend it highly. The price is right and it's worth the money.

i believe this guitar was made in 2000. It was made in korea and then shipped to britain. The guitar has 22 jumbo frets which are seated perfectly. This guitar has the usual sg layout with a volume and single tone control for each humbucking pickup and the threeway pickup selector. The pickups are the same as used on the usa gibson models and use the same alnico magnets. The body is made of two pieces of the aforementioned korina and the neck is made of maple which in theis particaular case is slightly flamed. it has a tune-o-matic bridge and epiphone reissue tuners. The neck is lovely and thick but not chunky enough to be called clubby. the guitar came with a free cable.

I play all types of music from jazz to punk and it seems to cope admirrably in all genres, although it does seem to lend itself to the heavier side of music particulary well it's perfect for chugging out those single and double note riffs as well as thumping out power chords. The pickups on this example give crystal clear string definiton partially at the expense of a lower output than some guitars. Which is why i advise changing the stock pickups if your into the heavier side of music as i have done. The band i play in are mostly a punk band which the guitar caters excellently for which when pushed gives a full angry sound like a jack russell barking in your face!!

for the majority of people i am sure the set up would have been fine it had a low action and played in tune all the way up the neck (as a proper guitar should)and the pickups were in just the right place. However i prefer a higher action than most and i use heavier guage strings than the average guitarist so a few adjustments had to be made. Also after a week of having the guitar the pickup selector went dead on me but it was nothing 5 minutes with a soldering iron couldn't fix.

I would never gig any guitar without a backup although i'm sure this little beast will never let me down during a performance as it hasn't yet. The guitar is as sturdy as any other i've seen and played and the hardware looks as if it wiil last the goldplating will wear of but thats an added bonus making your guitar look like it's had one hell of a life.

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i have been playing for near on 3 years and its pefect for the music i play which is rowdy in your face punk i own a laney vc30 which on it's own can't be classed as a punk like amp but put it with a marshall guvnor and your talking one angry sound. If the guiatr were stolen or lost i would buy the real thing a gibson standard but i would replace the stock pickups for my favoured seymour duncan invader. i compared it many guitars and compared to the thinner sounding strats and teles this was a winner in my book