Like the Granada model, the Epiphone Casino, introduced in 1961, is a close copy of an existing Gibson model, in this case the 9159 ES-330.

Both guitars resembled the Gibson ES-335, although the 330 and Casino were true hollow-bodies, lacking the 335’s center block. They were also fitted with single coil, P-90 pickups with the first covers being black in color with “dot” fret markers and mock-tortoiseshell pickguards. These features all changed within a few years.

This Casino model, dating from 1964, has a white pickguard, nickel-covered P-90s, and “parallelogram” neck inlays.

The Casino is described as “the guitar that put Epiphone on the map”.