Hi Peeps,

I've seen a semi-acoustic in a local bric-a-brac shop for £100, which is an epiphone, but the strange thing is, it doesn't have epiphone written on the headstock like usual epiphone guitars, but some strange symbol. It's like a crescent moon round a circle, it almost looks like a Turkish type symbol.

Can anyone shed any light on it, and where I might ne able to get some more info?

Do you think it's worth £100.

Cheers,

Jim.

Perhaps you could match some identifying info on this site ?

Are you sure it's an Epiphone? If so, how do you know?

I don't know much about this kind of thing, but if there's a sticker on the inside that says Epihone, and it says it's made in Kalamazoo, Michigan, I would imagine there's a decent chance it could be worth some money if it is in at least decent to good shape. That said, it seems to me like the Kalamazoo/Gibson Epiphones I've seen had the normal Epiphone symbol on the headstock (though I could be wrong).

Or possibly it could be a pre-Gibson, pre-Conn Epiphone made by the original manufacturers (who were Greek)? That would be pretty cool.

I used to have a post-Gibson Epiphone semi-hollow body guitar that was really, really nice. I'm still kicking myself for selling it. It played like a dream, especially for chording . . . it had a fairly narrow neck, strings quite close together, so I found it a little more difficult for the finger tapping lead stuff at the time (I was a bit of a metal head back then ).

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that was their old headstock logo want it? - i've seen it on many old epi's

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Now I think of it, I think I have seen this on some old Epiphones. For some reason I had it in my head that the circle was made of stars or something in his description. DOH!

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My dear friend Scott let me know about this thread. I could read any Turkish, old, new, ancient whatever but unfortunately that link doesn't show up on my screen. Would you be able to copy the image somewhere else so that I can see it?

Cheers.

http://www.gitarren-seite.de/galerie/epiphone.htm that the one??

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Quote Jimmy h:

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Hi Peeps,

I've seen a semi-acoustic in a local bric-a-brac shop for £100, which is an epiphone, but the strange thing is, it doesn't have epiphone written on the headstock like usual epiphone guitars, but some strange symbol. It's like a crescent moon round a circle, it almost looks like a Turkish type symbol.

Can anyone shed any light on it, and where I might ne able to get some more info?

Do you think it's worth £100.

Cheers,

Jim.

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Yeah its probably a pre-Gibson Epi. Got any pics?????


Pabs

Hi Guys, it's Jim again.

It's defo Gibson and Epiphone as it has gibson truss-rod cover and Epiphone sticker, will check if it has kalamazoo on sticker. It has a jack and XLR output, so I think it's pro gear. It's an acoustic with a pickup (peizo??) and it has a butterfly engraved on the front of the acoustic between the bridge and the soundhole, very weird??

Can't really take photos as it's in a shop and they may think I'm about to rob them.

The symbol on the headstock is a crescent moon and where the two points of the moon meet, there's a circle. It's all in pearl.??



Jim.

Edited by Jimmy h (23/04/05 10:26 AM)

Aha.......Pabs has the answer



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In your first post you mentioned 'Epiphone Semi with crescent logo' so I assumed it must be some obscure pre-Gibson Epiphone. The additional info about the butterfly inlay and additional XLR output in your second post led me to this after a Yahoo search.

BTW if it is in good condition and you like it you should deffo buy it.

Pabs

Agreed, as long as it is in reasonable condition, buy at that price. But hey!! negotiate anyway

andy

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Thats' the exact on Pab ..... But I went in on Saturday, and it was gone

Oh well, can't be helped.

Cheers for all your help,

Jim.