Epiphone Olympic Double

# What year was it made? Where was is made? (Japan, Mexico, USA, etc...)1964 USA Kalamazoo, Michigan!

# Pickup configuration? (S/S/H, H/H, S/H, Piezo, etc...)2 single coils!

# Finish (Satin, transparent, quilted top, flamed top, etc...)tobacco sunburst!

# Body style (strat, tele, dreadnought, cutaway, thinline, etc...)6 in line tuners, batwing headstock!

# Bridge style (Tune-O-Matic, Floyd Rose, Wilkinson, Tele-style, String-thru body, stop tailpiece, etc...)Has a non-original wraparound tune-a-matic bridge!

# Any included accessories? (Case, gig bag, strap, cable, tools, humidifier, etc...)came with original case, original pickguard, original tremolo, and original knobs.

The single coil pickups are twangy much like that of a strat. They sound good though.

Action is great for a 64!
Finish is still in good condition!

I think this guitar is reliable for it's age!
It'll be good for another 40+ years!

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This is a very cool guitar. All of the 60's batwing headstock guitars seem to have really cool necks. They are very well made guitars. They are cool. The Olympic is the poor man's Coronet which is the poor man's Wilshire which is the poor man's Crestwood! I have a Wilshire and would love to own a Crestwood, but I'll never have the money that is asked for them! So I will stick to the other poor man batwing headstock guitars of the 60's!

I chose this guitar because I've been to this store before and purchased a guitar in the past.

I bought this guitar for $100 at a pawnshop in Tucson,Az in 1983. It was built in the mid-late 60's in the USA. I was always looking for one of these because of the great neck acess. Body and neck are each made fom 1 piece of mahogany. I find the body wood extremely resonant, as this is my loudest electric guitar when played acoustically. The bridge is a compensated saddle bar bridge, but the intonation is on the mark. The maestro vibrato works well and keeps the guitar in reasonable tune. I love the look of the batwing headstock and light weight of the guitar.I do not like the location of the volume and tone controls as its too busy down there.

I play everything from country to blues and love the sound of this guitar. To me it sounds like a Tele with Gibson voicing. Nice and bright with good sound choices when using the pup selector. Mine has microphonic pups which emit great harmonics especially when played thru a high gain amp.The BIG problem though is noise. These pups HUMMM making the guitar virtually unusable in a club. Too bad. I do not want to change pups as the tone is so great, but am tempted to put on some mini-buckers.

The fit and finish of this guitar are great. Remember this was made by Gibson. It has great wood for a low end guitar and the hardware is the same as used on the non reverse Firebird.The action and neck are top choice.

I can't use this guitar in a gigging situation because of pu hum, but otherwise the guitar holds tune very well and everything works fine.

I have 3 other electic guitars; a 75 Les Paul, newer Tele and Strat. I would love to have the upgraded model with humbuckers to get rid of the hum; otherwise I love this guitar. Its got a great neck that stays straight, great wood; nice light and resonant and good hardware. I love the sound except for the hum. I think that Epis of this vintage are the greatest value in the vintage market.

I own a 1968 Olymppic Double. Originally came with two single coil pickups, two volume and two tone controls. A maestro vibrola and stop tailpiece. It is all mahogany , set neck and it is straight as the day it was made. I replaced the pickups with a '62 Tele rythm pickup and an EMG select stacked (single coil sized) humbucker in the lead position. I manufactured my own new 3 ply pickguard by tracing the original on wood. I cut out the shape on a bandsaw, then hot glued the new plastic onto the wood. I simply went around the wood with a router and walla and new perfect pickguard. I then drilled all holes and cut pickup holes to match new pickups with a dremel tool. Looks and sounds awesome!

I play lead in a country band. This is my main axe. I also have a Strat that collects a lot of dust. I love the epi!

I set the guitar up to match my style, it is great. I don't use the vibrola much, so I have no tunning problems or bridge problems. I do wish the bridge was adjustable, but the intonation is so close to perfect, who cares? The guitar is 35 years ols, it has a few nicks and scratches, but they are from when I was 12 and didn't know how to handle a guitar properly. It gives it character, and memories.

Most reliable of any guitar I've owned. Always works, plays like my dad's Les Paul (very similar neck-almost exactly). It has lasted 35 years and 21 years of my playing it.

Nice dating from serial number on Gibson web-site.

I never want another guitar, bought another one just like it from eBay, not as good of shape, but I am having it professionally refinished and refretted.

Cool batwing headstock! Otherwise limited features. Be sure to replace wrap around bridge with Leo Q. Badass.

Pickups are wussy, but on certain settings, with both pickups, you can get a nice rhythm sound.

This was hardly a top of the line gtr, when made in the mid-60s, but they have lasted well. Mine has a reasonably straight neck, 35 years later.

Mine has lots of finish cracking and other scars, but hell it's 35 years old. I didn't look too good at 35 either :-)

I own 15 other guitars, so I could afford to buy this one on a whim.

made in 1965 in USA by Gibson. 22 frets, Solid mahongany neck and body. (neck thru body.) Basic Gibson features & controls. 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way switch, original kluson deluxe white plastic button 6-in-line tuners, melody maker / les paul jr. wraparound tailpiece w/ no individual string adjustment. maestro vibrola vibrato unit. 2 melody maker single coil pickups. original "pelham blue" finish is now turned green, exept at the edges, where the yellowed lacquer has worn off. really cool looking offset horn double cutaway body, wery nice narrow but fat neck. quite worn, but that's just cool and I'm wearing it some more.

I play mostly melancholic and melodic indie rock / pop. at the moment I only use big muff and then into old Hiwatt dr103 head (I took 2 power tubes off, now it's 50 watt). pretty much noise when used with distortion, but that could just as well be the big muff (reissue). I can get good twang sounds w / bridge pu, and neck is good for slide.the pickups have very low output. good when cranked up & strummed hard, but there's very little sustain, regardless the set neck construction, and the sound lacks the top end, not good for picking up single notes. im concidering changing with some strat pickup(s) probably seymour duncans. after all, i love this guitar, and I think it will reach it's full potential with better pickups. If you are mostly playing rhytmic stuff, the stock pickups will be just perfect. I think my money spent to new pu's is the money well spent. the guitar is worth it. (did i mention awesome acoustic tone? well aged mahongany sounds so warm & sweet. It's a Gibson from the 60's, in fact)

my only dislike is the bridge. this guitar has the wraparound stop tailpiece / bridge as a standard feature, and optional Maestro vibrato unit. when fitted with maestro vibrola, they just screwed it behind the tailpiece and used the stop type tailpiece as a bridge. now, the string pull is pretty much removed from tailpiece, and during the hard tremoloing the "bridge" has a tendency to shift and move backwards causing poor intonation. tune-o-matic would have been a real improvement.. I poured some super glue there.

right now, this is my only guitar. I have had about 10 guitars, but this is definitely the one for keeping. it has withstanded over 35 years of live playing, and I have used it for gigging half a year now..and without backup. If it has gone this long, I have no fear. the finish is cracked and yellowed and worn, there is beutiful dark mahongany showing here and there, dirt and rust in the metal parts, but that's how old guitars should look and how i love them.

well, the gibson website has some real cool dating info..

i have been palaying about 10 years now. as I said earlier this is my only guitar right now and it definitely is the guitar to rely on. this is just perfect cross beetween gibson and fender and combines all the best (in my opinion) features from both worlds, ie. set neck, single coils and single coil sound, 6 in line kluson tuners, tremolo unit, and double cutaway, comfortably shaped body. and oh, how it looks groovy. would buy it again, but this is the only one I have ever encounered, so i think it would be damn hard to find another one.