The Guitars of OKen Part VI/Epiphone

Holy shit, did I have a lot of Epiphones. They are the budget version of Gibson, and they put out a quality product. I have to say that of the 19...yep 19 that I have owned, I only had one clunker. I currently have none at the moment, and upon reflection, I didn't gig with a lot of them. This is where most of my OCD lies...

34. Red SG with weird ass headstock
This is a late 90s model. Cheap as fuck, rehearsed with it, but never played out.

35. White SG with EMG pickups
EMGs are active pickups, meaning that you need to power them with a 9-volt. Different sound for sure but not for me

36. Firebird Studio
Should have kept this one, it sounded great!

37. ES-175
Got it CHEAP. Looked and played great, but I needed to purge and thin out the herd at that point, so it was a sacrificial lamb.

38. Les Paul Limited Edition Silverburst
Looked great, but the pickups were meh, so I dropped in some Seymour Duncans and it sang! This was a victim of my great purge.

Damn! It was a looker! I should have kept that one too!!!

39. Les Paul Ultra II
It had a special pickup to make it sound like an acoustic when you flip a switch. It sounded like crap, but the guitar itself was pretty goddamn spectacular. I DID gig out with this one.

40. Les Paul Goth
Cheap, and I dropped a DiMarzio Super Distortion at the bridge...looked cool.

41. Les Paul Standard
 It was a B-stock and I had it for a month

42. Les Paul Traditional Pro
Had this for 3 weeks..used it to trade for something better

43. Les Paul Tribute Plus
Another one I had for less than a month. It had Gibson 57 pickups in it, but it did not quite sound like it, plus it was kind of ugly.

44. ES-339 Pro
U.G.L.Y. I honestly don't know what I was thinking when I got this. It sounded decent enough, but it's a small scale guitar with a shape used on a larger guitar.

45. Casino
The first one. I used it as a prop in a play I wrote, then got rid of it because it really had no distinctive sound.

46. Casino...again
Nope, not the same pic. I was in a full on Beatles mood and I traded for it, but then reality set in. I had it for 5 weeks I think.

47. Dot Studio
Dirt Cheap...never played out once. Changed the bridge pickup. Sold it.

48. Dot
This was my "Frankenstein's Monster" guitar. I changed almost everything about this. New pickups, locking tuners, a Bigsby tremolo, new volume/tone dials. I used this one quite a bit. The frets started to go and I don't do fret jobs, and didn't want to pay. I was actually able to trade this one in.

49. ES-335
Looks just like the Dot but way better sounding. I should have kept this one.

50. Dot...again...
Yep, I did it again, I bought an exact one that I got rid of. This was the only clunker.  I had this for less than 2 weeks and brought it back to get my money back. The fretboard was fucked up! The frets had many dead spots...yuck!

Wow! That was a long one! I have one more! I KNOW YOU CAN'T WAIT!!!! The last chapter will be The Current Guitars of OKen!!!!