The frets are medium jumbos, and were well set, leveled and polished on the review unit. The rosewood fingerboard has a 12' radius, and is adorned with pearloid parallelogram inlays. The headstock is angled at 14 degrees, which helps increase string down pressure at the nut, and thus sustain. The Casino Coupe has a set, bound mahogany neck with a 24.75' scale length.The Casino Coupe is also available in Vintage Sunburst and Cherry. The review unit is finished in a softly golden-shaded Natural, which is somewhat blond in tone, with the maple's grain slightly subdued by, but still easily visible through the finish. The body is double bound with a ivory colored single-ply binding. The back, sides and top of the Casino Coupe are five-ply laminated maple.Even with the small light body the guitar's balance is quite good, with no 'neck dive' when worn on a strap. How small is that? It is roughly similar in size to a Les Paul, but like the standard Casino, it's much lighter - weighing only six pounds or so. The Casino Coupe is designed to be a smaller, sportier version of the legendary Casino, packing all the essential Casino features into a smaller, scaled-down, ES-339 sized body.So why mess with success? Epiphone still offers the standard sized Casino, but for players who want something a bit more compact there is now the Casino Coupe a guitar that keeps all the essential design elements of a standard Casino but packages them in a smaller, ES-339 sized thinline hollowbody. Paul Weller and Matthew Sweet, the Casino has been popular with players for decades.

First released in 1961 and initially made famous by Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles and used by numerous other artists including Keith Richards, Gary Clark Jr.

The Casino is arguably one of Epiphone's best known models, and they're generally highly prized by their owners. Classic Casino features in a smaller ES-339-sized body

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