NBD-Lefty Epiphone Jack Casady Bass

[ChWillie]

My dealer had them for $200 off, and Epiphone is no longer listing lefties. Discontinued or a new model coming? 
 

Epiphone and the Chinese factory they’re using have their shitz together. Superb workmanship, sound, and feel.  Slightly important to me, they have the correct pots on it for lefties.  It’s beautiful too.  
 

Sound-wise, it’s closer to my Explorer bass than to a hollow body like my Höfner.  The pickup is powerful , and the varitone switch is incredibly useful for a range of tones.   
 

For now, I don’t know why I’d mod it in any way. Too, I already have flats on my Ric, fretless Jazz, and Höfner, so for now, I’m going to play it with the excellent sounding round wounds.  
 

I also have the Epiphone Korina (solid, not laminate) Explorer bass and a Casino, surprisingly excellent Chinese guitars.  I owned three Epiphones before that had so much poly on them, the bodies looked like they had thick glass encasing them and the pickups sucked butt.  Now, Epiphone has redeemed itself.  I’d put them slightly above the quality of Epiphones in the golden years of their Korean builds.   
 

 

[uk_lefty]

Awesome! I've had mine just over a year and love it. It's great for unplugged practice and regularly gets played on gigs. Also recently got an Epi Casino guitar too, persuaded by the quality of the JC Bass. Enjoy the bass!!

[JohnH89]

Fine choice of bass . Mine has hipshots and a supertone bridge along with Roto tapes on it . Absolutely no real need to modify it though . Its a keeper for the rest of my natural life . Enjoy .

[lidl e]

one of the all time greats!

 

[ChWillie]

Thanks.  I’ve got some stellar basses, and I’m happy to add this to the lot.  

[ChWillie]

I love this bass more and more.  As much as any of my more expensive basses. It’s classy looking as well. 

Epi or no, I’d gig this one proudly.  It plays so well too, feels great in my hand, perfect neck.  Grab one before they’re all gone. Epi has removed them from their catalog. 

Edited January 16, 2023 by ChWillie

[uk_lefty]

Truly a fantastic bass. Loving mine with some good quality flatwounds on it. It just has one of those sounds to it that fits in almost every situation. I like bringing mine out if I have two gigs in consecutive nights so I'm not needing to check setups on my main bass with very little time to do so. Also, being lightweight it's great for those gigs where you're maybe not feeling 100% but can't let anyone down. 

[ChWillie]

Cool photo!   
 

I almost feel like starting to gig again just to give the bass a stage experience.

Like my Rickenbacker guitar and bass, it felt  familiar in my hands from the beginning. 

[Agent 00Soul]

They are still making them.  I think it was just a short pause.  Of course, if you a lefty you never know if there will ever be another production run....

[uk_lefty]

42 minutes ago, Agent 00Soul said:

They are still making them.  I think it was just a short pause.  Of course, if you a lefty you never know if there will ever be another production run....

It's not just whether they make them it's whether the retailer's even get them. I don't know if it was the case for all of them but back when I was trying to get hold of one the retailer told me they never know when they get stock from Epiphone and even then they don't know what they're going to get in left handed! So they were advertising them but wouldn't let me put down a deposit or reserve one because they couldn't guarantee they'd get one! I lost patience and bought the first one I saw coming up on eBay. No regrets whatsoever!