EPIPHONE USA MAP GUITAR (American Series)

  • Epiphone USA map (American Series)

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1982 to 1983

The Epiphone USA Map guitar was made by Gibson in their Kalamazoo, Michigan factory from 1982 to 1983. The USA Map model has a body shaped like the 48 contiguous United States. They could have had Alaska as the headstock with Hawaii island control knobs - but chose to go with a standard Epiphone peghead. These USA map guitars had two Gibson "Tim Shaw" humbuckers, controlled by 2 volume and 2 tone controls. The bridge was a wraparound Schaller 455 unit. The Epiphone map guitars, although not made in great numbers, were popular leading Gibson to issue a Gibson map model in 1983

Epiphone reissued a Korean made USA map guitar in 2005.

Source: The Unofficial Epiphone Wiki

Specifications (18)

Body

Body materialmahogany body
Body stylemap shaped body

Fretboard

Fingerboard materialrosewood fingerboard
Fingerboard position markersdot fingerboard position markers

General

Finish colorsnatural finish
Made inUSA
Scale length24.75 inches scale-length

Hardware

Hardware colorchrome hardware

Neck

Neck jointset neck
Neck materialmaple neck
Neck width1.68 inches wide at nut
Number of frets22 fret
Tuner layoutthree-each-side

Controls

Pickup selector controls3-way selector switch
Tone controls2 tone controls
Volume controls2 volume controls

Electronics

Pickups brand and modelGibson Tim Shaw PAF pickup(s)
Pickups configuration2 humbucker pickups

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