Models

Epiphone Casino

Electric guitar model

Electric guitar

A fully hollow thinline electric with twin P-90 pickups, the Casino is best known for its use by all three guitarists in the Beatles. Its bright, raw, slightly raucous tone made it a favorite for both clean and overdriven playing.

Collings 290

Mahogany solid-body electric guitar with P-90 pickups

Electric guitar · United States

The Collings 290 is a single-cutaway mahogany solid-body electric guitar inspired by the Les Paul Junior, with a solid mahogany body and neck, an East Indian rosewood fingerboard, a hand-set mortise-and-tenon neck joint, and P-90 pickups. It is hand-built in Austin, Texas.

Friedman Vintage-T

USA-built T-style electric guitar with P-90 pickups

United States

The Friedman Vintage-T is a single-cutaway, T-style solidbody electric guitar built in the USA by Dave Friedman with luthier Grover Jackson. The reviewed model pairs a mahogany body and a bolt-on maple neck with a pau ferro fingerboard and a set of Friedman Classic 90 (P-90 style) pickups over a fixed hardtail bridge. Thin aged nitrocellulose lacquer, a 10-to-14-inch compound-radius board, and Plek-finished fretwork give it vintage looks with modern playability.

D'Angelico Deluxe Bedford

Solid-body electric guitar model

South Korea

The Deluxe Bedford is an offset-body solid-body electric guitar with an alder body, a three-piece maple-and-walnut neck with a satin C-shaped profile, an ebony fingerboard with split-block inlays, and a 24.75-inch scale. Two Seymour Duncan stacked P-90 pickups feed a gold Wilkinson six-point tremolo bridge. It is part of D'Angelico's premium Deluxe series.

Gibson Les Paul Faded DC

Electric guitar model

Electric guitar · United States

A double-cutaway Les Paul finished in a satin, worn-looking "faded" nitrocellulose finish. The stripped-back cosmetics keep the price down while the twin-cutaway body improves access to the upper frets.

Macmull Heartbreaker

Single-cutaway electric guitar

The Heartbreaker is a Macmull Custom Guitars single-cutaway electric with a bound one-piece alder body, bolt-on hard maple neck and Madagascar rosewood 9.5-inch radius fingerboard with 21 Dunlop 6105 frets. The Heartbreaker Custom variant is fitted with two of Macmull's matched RVT P-90 pickups.

BilT S.S. Zaftig

Offset semi-solid electric guitar

The S.S. Zaftig is a BilT Guitars offset, double-cutaway semi-solid electric with a semi-acoustic alder body, a hard-maple neck and bound rosewood fingerboard with 21 vintage-style frets. It is fitted with Lollar Staple P-90 pickups for a distinctive voice.