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The pickup boffins over at Epiphone are introducing their latest, and greatest, pickup. This is the ProBucker.
The ProBucker is Epiphone’s version of Gibson’s BurstBucker (which is Gibson’s take on Gibson’s much-hallowed PAF). The ProBucker is made with bobbins that have been manufactured to the BurstBucker’s specs and with Elektrisola magnet wire (the same as that used by Gibson). The pole-piece slugs and screws are also to Gibson spec as is the nickel-silver alloy used in the covers.
The magnets used are Alnico II and the coils are scatter wound like …

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Here’s one for all you crazy youngsters with your YouTubes and your internets and whatnot.
Epiphone are offering the chance to win one of their, rather nice, Masterbuilt acoustic guitars. They’re all-solid, well put together and very, very handsome.
To be in with a chance to win, you need to video yourself playing something on an Epiphone acoustic, upload it to somewhere on the net and submit the link to Epiphone. They’ll scrutinise them and carefully adjudicate (i.e. laugh at them) and the best one will be published on Epiphone’s own site …

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Two new Epiphone competitions for all you greedy, competition geeks to enter.
First up, pop over to Epiphone and register to be in with a chance to win one of their new SST hybrid acoustic/electric guitars (left).  A chambered mahogany body and a spruce top with electrics from Shadow.  This is the steel string one.  Nice.
To win the SST, go to Epiphone.

Next up, Epiphone, Krank Amplification and RAZER (you have to do it all in uppercase – it’s the law) have teamed up to present the Big Rig Givaway.
By going the RAZER …

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Epiphone, generous souls that they are, are giving away ten custom guitars in conjunction with AP Magazine.
The guitars have been customised with a special paint-job celebrating one of four bands:

Cartel
A Day To Remember
Third Eye Blind
Motion City Soundtrack.

To be in with a chance to win one of these, point your browsie-thing over here and fill in the relevant details.
That’s it (although I’m sure AP would appreciate it if you hung around and took a look at their site).

Bass, Competition, Featured »

We mentioned the launch of the, rather handsome, Epiphone Thunderbird PRO bass a while back.
Did you see?  Did you want?
Well, if you did want one, now’s your chance to win one.
Just pop off to Epiphone’s competition site, pop your email address in the email address field and you might just win a T-Bird Pro.
Not too shabby.
Closing date is 31st of January, 2010.

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Epiphone have announced a series of clinics, for January, in the UK and Ireland. There, you can see (ahem) Doctor Epiphone, and he’ll tell you a number of interesting things about Epiphone.
More importantly though, you might get some free swag – T-shirts, baseball caps and whatnot.  You might also win a guitar.
The dates and venues are below.  Maybe there’s a store near you…

January 19th – Hard Rock Cafe – Edinburgh, Scotland
January 20th – Dawson’s Music – Liverpool, England
January 21st – GigGear Ltd. – Harlow, England
January 22nd – Digital Village – …

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Released today, Christmas Day, exclusively in Japan, is this handsome new Epiphone.
This is the Tak Matsumoto Signature DC Custom.  Tak is one of Japan’s leading guitarists and he’s managed to wangle this signature model from Epiphone.
It’s based on the popular model from Gibson’s Custom Shop and is a bit special.
Its a double-cut mahogany body with a glued-in mahogany neck.  The neck joint is of the long-tenon type which gives excellent neck/body coupling and contributes to a great tone and longer sustain. The body is bound in multi-ply (w/b/w/b/w/b/w if you …

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We know this isn’t exactly breaking news but we’ve just found these sound samples of the Epiphone Wilshire and figured it would make a reasonable excuse to take a look at this guitar.
Not that we really need any excuse to consider a Wilshire here at Guitarless.  We frickin’ love the Wilshire.
Released a couple of months back, Epiphone’s new Wilshire is a reproduction of the original ‘66 model.  All mahogany body and neck and a traditional set-neck joint – meeting at the 22nd fret and allowing excellent access to the dusty …

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I talked about the Epiphone Swingster when it was released a while back.  I liked it then and we like it now.
I’d quite like to have one.  So would you, I’m sure.
Well, maybe you can.  If you head off to Epiphone, you can enter a competition and be in with a chance to get your sticky, sweaty, rock-a-billy hands on this swing-thing.
Go on.  You’d be mad not to.

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Gibson tell us of a recent upsurge in fake and counterfeit Gibson guitars for sale – many of which are sold from Chinese wholesale sites like TradeTang.com, DHGate.com and MadeInChina.com (although this is, by no means, an exclusive list).
You can see such ‘bargains’ as a Les Paul Supreme for $297 or an Dot Reissue 335 for $346.
If only…
Remember, if it seems to good to be true, it probably is.  However, some information to (maybe) help in spotting a fake Gibson follows:
There seem to be a few things that the fakers …