Note the elegant craftsmanship of this Crestwood Custom, with its wooden tailpiece cover, clear pickguard, and white plate between pickups.
Clear plexiglass pickguard and nickel plated metal parts.' Rosewood fingerboard with oval pearloid inlays … and all 22 frets above the cutaway for easy fingering. A beautiful Honduras mahogany body and neck with adjustable truss rod. Tremotone vibrato adds pulsating effects–swings out of the way for rhythm playing. The 1962 cherry red Epiphone Crestwood Custom featured this month has the standard appointments for that year, as described in the 1962 Epiphone catalog: 'Tune-o-matic bridge permits adjusting string action and individual string lengths for perfect intonation. The existing stock of original Epiphone New York-made pickups was phased out and replaced with new mini-humbucking pickups by 1961.
The original 1962 price for an Epiphone Crestwood Custom was $290, plus $50 for a hardshell case or $15 for a chipboard case.īy 1959, the Crestwood was renamed the Crestwood Custom, and its 1 3/4” body was slimmed to 1 3/8”, with more-rounded edges.
