Epiphone Dot Studio

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The Epiphone Dot Studio semi-hollow electric guitar is part of a reasonably-priced line of guitars high on quality and value for your money, and low on frills. The stripped-down version of Gibson’s iconic 335 model may be missing a few things, such as a pickguard, pickup covers, and even the dot markers on the neck that gave this guitar its nickname years ago, but it certainly doesn’t fall short when held up against the competition.

Standard appointments on the Epiphone Dot Studio include vintage-voiced Alnico V Plus pickups, a LockTone Tune-O-Matic bridge and a stopbar tailpiece to anchor the strings firmly to the body. Speaking of the body–everything you can see on it is made out of mahogany, a dense tone wood that projects a dark, smoky sound perfect for blues-based rock and jazz.

The guitar is available in some appropriately understated finish choices such as worn cherry, worn brown, and worn vintage sunburst, plus some more decidedly modern ones. The Chinese-made Epiphone Dot Studio guitar exhibits a high level of quality and attention to detail that belies a bargain-basement street price of somewhere south of three hundred dollars.

Although it may not not quite live up to the legendary quality and power of the original 335 it is based on, most guitarists would be hard pressed to justify spending $2500 more to make the leap up to the model bearing the famous Gibson name on the headstock. The Epiphone Dot Studio semi-hollow electric is a versatile, well-made guitar that anyone would be proud to bring up on stage with them. And with all that money you saved, you could invest in a smokin’ amp to go with it!