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1965 Epiphone FT-45 N Cortez
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Built by Gibson in its Kalamazoo factory, the Epiphone FT-45 N Cortez is identical to Gibson's B-25N, but for its headstock and pickguard dimensions. It's the mid 1960's evolution of a Gibson LG-3, and shares much of that guitar's design.
X-Braced spruce top with mahogany back and sides and cream-plastic bindings. Adjustable rosewood bridge and saddle, thin tortoise-celluloid pickguard, lacquer finish. Rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays, large Epiphone headstock, and Kluson tuners.
The guitar is in excellent condition and crack-free. The frets are new and very nicely done, and this Cortez plays really nicely. The neck carve is small, and the electric players here at Folkway love the feel. Nut width measures a hair less than 1-9/16”, scale is 24.75”.
The guitar has a pleasing adjustable bridge voice, with a lot of bottom end warmth, a reserved midrange, and rounded but defined trebles. It's a smooth sounding guitar, with a little compression added by that rosewood adjustable saddle, and likes a medium to light attack best.
With original case
Epihone history in short.X-Braced spruce top with mahogany back and sides and cream-plastic bindings. Adjustable rosewood bridge and saddle, thin tortoise-celluloid pickguard, lacquer finish. Rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays, large Epiphone headstock, and Kluson tuners.
The guitar is in excellent condition and crack-free. The frets are new and very nicely done, and this Cortez plays really nicely. The neck carve is small, and the electric players here at Folkway love the feel. Nut width measures a hair less than 1-9/16”, scale is 24.75”.
The guitar has a pleasing adjustable bridge voice, with a lot of bottom end warmth, a reserved midrange, and rounded but defined trebles. It's a smooth sounding guitar, with a little compression added by that rosewood adjustable saddle, and likes a medium to light attack best.
With original case
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Anastasios Stathopoulos born in 1863, was a Greek luthier who started a mandolin and violin company in 1873 in Pellana, Greece. In 1903 he emigrated with his wife to New York. As luthier he started a year later a company that mainly produced mandolins. The company ran well, and therefore he took the Italian professional Henry cappielo employed. After the death of Anastasios in 1915, his son Epaminondas (Epi) take control over the company. Under his management the company grows to one of the biggest of its kind. A few years later, Epaminondas opens a factory where mainly banjos were made. In 1924 he registered the brand name Epiphone, a combination of his own name (Epi) with the Greek word for sound (phone). Shortly thereafter, Epi buys the banjo company Favoran and introduces the banjo Epiphone Recording line. Because of their quality and elegant design, it will be a great success. Due to the success of the banjo Recording line, a Recording line for guitars was also established in 1928 and a full line of f-hole archtop guitars was introduced in 1931. There are 12 models, including the top models: Broadway, Triumph and DeLuxe. Epiphone has been competing with Gibson for some time and with the introduction of the Epiphone Emperor in 1935, dealt a serious blow. Epiphone introduced the Electar series in 1937, an electric guitar with an adjustable pickup. Epaminondas dies in 1943 and the business is continued by his two sons Orpheus (Orphie) and Frixo. The cooperation between the two brothers is going badly and the company is going through hard times in the post-war years. By the mid-1950s, Epiphone is still making very few instruments. | In 1957, Epiphone is sold to CMI, Gibson's parent company, for $20,000.00. A full line of newly designed acoustic and electric guitars is launched in 1958. In 1960, Epiphone's production moved to the Gibson plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan. At the beginning of 1970 the production under license from Gibson moved from the USA to Japan. From 1983 there is also produced in Korea and then in 1995 also in Indonesia. In 2004, Gibson opened a factory in Qingdao, China for the production of Epiphone guitars. Although the vast production of Epiphone guitars takes place in these countries, some more exclusive models are still being made in the USA. Epaminondas Stathopoulos |