Epiphone Crestwood

Infobox Guitar model|title=Crestwood, Crestwood Custom, Crestwood DeLuxe


manufacturer=Epiphone
period=1958 - 1970
bodytype=Solid
necktype=Set
scale=24.75"
woodbody=Mahogany
woodneck=Mahogany
woodfingerboard=Rosewood or Ebony
bridge=Tune-o-matic with Stop tailpiece optional vibrato
pickups=Two New Yorker pickups, two mini humbuckers, three minihumbuckers
colors=Polaris white, Cherry red, Various Sunbursts and custom finishesThe Epiphone Crestwood was a solidbody electric guitar launched in 1958 and discontinued in 1970. After Epiphone discontinued the Crestwood, a number of re-issues and replicas has been available from diffrent companies.

History

The Crestwood was launched in 1958 by Epiphone. The guitar was a double cutaway solidbody construction in mahogany with dual New Yorker pickups, three-on-a-side headstock and a pickguard with the Epiphone logo. In late 1959 the the guitar was renamed the Crestwood Custom and the body's edges were rounded off and the pickguard go different design. In 1961 the New Yorker pickups were replaced with minihumbuckers, the dot markers were replaced with oval markers and the pickguard lost its Epiphone logo. By 1963 the body got a slightly longer upper horn, a six on-a-side headstock and the gold plating were replaced with nickel plating. Epiphone also launched the Crestwood DeLuxe which can easily be described as a three pickup version of the Crestwood Custom, it also featured an ebony fretboard with block inlays. The Crestwood DeLuxe was discontinued in 1969 and the Crestwood Custom the year after.

Notable users

*Vigilante Carlstroem - The Hives
*Robert Dahlqvist - The Hellacopters, Thunder Express
*Ray Hanson - Thee Hypnotics
*Wayne Kramer - MC5

External links

* [http://www.epiphone.com Offical Epiphone website]

References

* [http://www.provide.net/~cfh/epiphon2.html#crestd Epiphone collectors site]