As you’ll know if you read this post on Jimi Hendrix, the great man, before he migrated to playing a Strat left-handed, once played an Epiphone Wilshire. And now, according to Musician’s Friend, Epiphone is about to launch a special edition of the Wilshire.
MF describes the new Wilshire as ‘Perfect for anyone who wants to stand out or already has an SG and LP’
It has a Mahogany set neck, Alnico humbuckers, solid mahogany body, and is finished in white. The Wilshire also has a rosewood fretboard with block inlays, chrome hardware, ‘bat wing’ headstock, and inline Grover Mini-Rotomatic tuners.
The chrome bridge and stop tailpiece complete the look and there’s a pick-up selector and volume and tone controls for each of the humbuckers.
Checkout the Epiphone Limited Edition Wilshire Electric Guitar Alpine White at Musician’s Friend.
The original Wilshire was made between 1959 and 1970 and originally featured two P-90 pick-ups and dot inlays, along with a Tune-o-matic bridge and stop tailpiece. In 1962, the P-90s were replaced with mini-humbuckers.
This is really cool! I forgot Jimi played one of these and I would really like to try one out. It looks like a really nice unique guitar.