The new headstock design features the iconic “open book” shape, which means it has the two wings on either side. Both the greeny and jones guitars were inspired by gibson custom shop models, and gibson brands' vice president of product mat koehler has gone on record. Gibson has changed headstocks in subtle.

1999 Epiphone by Gibson (Open Book Headstock) '59 Les Paul Model LPS

An instagram post by cesar gueikian appears to suggest that epiphone guitars of the future could finally come with a gibson open book style headstock shape. Only the most jaded guitar snob would fail to recognize this as the magnificent instrument it is. They're made in japan models, some are.

Epiphone has expanded its inspired by gibson custom collection, “establishing a new tier of premium epiphones” with gibson usa pickups, premium electronics, plus the famous.

Does anyone know how to attribute the differences in the font used for epiphone on these open book headstocks? You are looking at a truly amazing japanese epiphone les paul standard tobacco burst flametop built in 2000 at the legendary fujigen plant in japan and only intended for. Even within les pauls, there's a different headstock on the standard than on the custom. Specifically, only two models have the headstock, those being the adam jones signature les paul and the epiphone. Sometimes you can see inspiration for headstock designs in the instruments that were around when the luthier was a child, often in another part of the world. The 3 + 3 headstock shape utilizes three tuners per side and is commonly associated with gibson’s “open book” headstock design. The inspired by gibson custom collection delivers faithful recreations of legendary gibson models with premium appointments such as gibson usa pickups,. Additionally, the new headstocks are a bit.