’70s Epiphone Crestwood aka ET 275 Demo and Review

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’70s Epiphone Crestwood aka ET-275 Demo and Review

Welcome to get offset. My name is Emily and today I have this seventies Epiphone sold to me as an ET 275. I’ve been told it’s also called a Crestwood and that those are kind of interchangeable, but I’m not really sure. So don’t blame me if I’m wrong. A legend has it that this guitar used to be the guitar of choice for a Seattle based.

[00:00:27] Jingle writer. And I kind of makes me wonder what jingles I might have heard that written on this guitar, and that’s just one of the fun things about buying, buying used gear. Pretty good deal on this. Um, I paid about 250 plus a microphone or two. So very blues brothers esque trade. As far as medic condition, it is a well-loved guitar.

[00:00:55] There’s a. Kind of a smudge on the paint there, a little bit of belt rash, then not too much. Um, some, some things around the edges, there, some things in the neck, the three looks like a three-piece neck. Um, that’s a little bit of an indentation there and there, but nothing major. The headstock looks like it’s never needed a repair.

[00:01:22] Which is cool. Um, and it has this very rusted out, looking, looking vibrato system and bridge plate there. Uh, I did buy this arm on eBay. It did not come with the arm. I don’t really love the vibrato on it.

[00:01:43] which I, I, I dig up subtle. I brought up for sure. I’m not doing, you know, deep dives on this thing, but it requires quite a bit of pressure

[00:01:54] to get anything going on it, which is kind of a bummer. I think the knobs are quite handsome, the volume and tone for each pickup. Three way selector switch. Uh, the most unique part of this guitar to me is, is the neck and addition to have it a very, very flat fretboard radius all up and down the neck.

[00:02:16] It’s not a, the shape is not a V shape. It’s not a D shape. It’s a very flat, flatter than most modern necks. Honestly, the flattest, um, neck profile I have ever. Ever seen on a guitar, um, which isn’t, it’s not the most comfortable. I really do like a, a modern C. I like, uh, I like a V shape profile. I’m not a big fan of the baseball bat profile for neck, but Hey, to each their own.

[00:02:44] Uh, so that’s really all I have to say about it. Um, cosmetically, like it’s not a Gibson quality guitar. It has very, very thin frets. Um, very vintage. That was a flat radius. I’m not really worried about bending out. I like, I like my fingers to come into some contact with the front board, to be honest. I, I like vintage fret wire, what I requested on my two to 10 build.

[00:03:10] Um, so I was really pleased with that. And I think it’s very handsome. It’s a little on the heavier side, but not heavier than a Jazzmaster. Uh, probably not heavier than a Telecaster, which is my understanding these shapes for vaguely based on Telecasters. But let’s just play through, uh, with a shrimp and rubidium clean and then I’ll add the, the hotcake to it.

[00:03:31] All right. Let’s start on the neck. Let’s start on the bridge actually. No neck. Yeah. Yeah,

[00:03:55] slightly scratchy pots on both the tone controls. Not that I ever touched those middle.

[00:04:10] Neck bridge bridge mentally.

[00:04:49] I wonder if these strings are. Eleven’s cause they’re a little bit harder for me to bend and I don’t think that that’s to blame. I don’t like the neck at all.

[00:05:37] I should add to the hotcake is not even done, but the presence is all the way up. So maybe.

[00:08:57] Hmm.

[00:09:27] All right. Well, that’s just a quick 10 minute. Look at the Crestwood ETT, 75, whatever you want to call it. I don’t really care. Um, but if you’re interested in vintage guitars, I recommend checking out reverb.com. They have a huge selection. Of vintage and new gear. Um, and if you use the link in the video description, we get 1% cash back on your purchases.

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