Sonny Wolf
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As we have seen Gibson has re-vamped the 2020 Epiphone line and now the Les Pauls and SGs have an updated headstock design based on 1950s era Kalamazoo Epiphones.I think these headstock are okaaaay but I'm not overly thrilled with them either.Something about how wide they are at the bottom where the two E string pegs are sort throws me off a bit.The Gibson headstock is wider at the top at the D and G tuning pegs and it narrows nicely downwards.If I were Gibson I would just build the Epiphone Les Pauls and SGs with the classic Gibson headstock and simply keep the Epiphone logo as some were done for the Japanese market in the 1980s.I don't think that would hurt Gibson sales the same way Fender has the same USA headstock shape for it's Mexican and Asian Strats and Teles.I actually liked the 1990s-2019 Epiphone headstock shape with it's clipped corners.It looked elegant and I prefer the slimmer shape over this new wider 2020 shape.
The new 2020 one:
The 1990s-2019 one:
The Japanese market one with the Gibson headstock:
The new 2020 one:
The 1990s-2019 one:
The Japanese market one with the Gibson headstock: