It's my first restoration, so even general advice would be helpful. But, I wanted to solicit some advice from collectors and experts on this forum who might want to steer me in the right direction concerning its restoration going forward. It will probably be a few weeks before he gets to it, so I won't have any additional photos to share for a while. I'm not having him do anything major and he seems very knowledgeable on these models. So, I took it to a local professional to have him give it a thorough cleaning and evaluation. However, I think enough of its potential to sink some money into the guitar. Jackpot! (I hope so anyway) The binding around the neck is coming up in spots, all of the neck inlay is curling up and one piece is actually missing, a tuner is busted and the bridge looks incomplete. No scratchiness, every switch and knob seems responsive. In fact, I was worried that it may have even been underwater it was so rough.īut, I got it home, plugged it into an amp and voila!.the electronics sounded incredible. I paid very little for it and it was in very rough condition. Today, at a local thrift store, I found an all original, 1967 Epiphone Casino E230TDC model guitar. This is likely to sound a lot like bragging, but I think it will give hope to everyone else out there who scours thrift stores and yard sales in vain, thinking there aren't any treasures left to be had.