Epiphone Masterbilt Excellente-MINT- FT120-Acoustic/Electric-Antique Natural-2020-Present

This guitar is brand new in the original box & packaging. It’s posted as mint because I am not a dealer. 

All proceeds from the purchase of this guitar will be donated to the Music Has Healing Power foundation, to be used for the Shriners Hospitals for Children and Golisano Children’s Hospitals music therapy program and music rooms. It will help provide children and their families in need and who are going through medical challenges with the healing gift of music, musical instruments, compassion, love and hope. 

Perhaps the rarest Epiphone model ever made, only 139 Excellente acoustic guitars were produced between 1963-70. The beautifully ornate, top-of-the-line Excellente was made famous by country music legend Loretta Lynn, and now it returns as part of the new Masterbilt™ Collection. Featuring a solid Sitka spruce top, solid ovangkol back and sides, an ebony fingerboard with historic pearl cloud inlays, bone nut and saddle, and gold vintage-style Waffleback tuners. Featuring Gibson™ strings. Antique Natural Aged gloss. This Epiphone Masterbilt Excellente acoustic guitar sounds and looks beautiful!

Description

The Masterbilt Story:
First released in June 1931, the original Epiphone Masterbilt guitars were overseen by founder Epi Stathopoulo who was quoted in the Epiphone catalog: "The possessor of an EPIPHONE instrument has the assurance that every possible precaution has been taken to build instruments for lifetime performance and pleasure." 

Masterbilt Excellente: The Honky Tonk Queen of Guitars:
The Masterbilt Excellente debuted in 1963 and with only 139 made between 1963 and 1969, is perhaps modern Epiphone’s most rare guitar. Despite its low production numbers, the Excellente became iconic as the trademark acoustic for country music legends Loretta Lynn and her mentor Ernest Tubb, one of the first stars of the Grand Ole Opry. Jack White also used Loretta’s Excellente in the making of her GRAMMY winning album, Van Lear Rose. 

The Excellente is made from all solid wood construction and features a Solid Sitka Spruce top with black and white binding and Ovangkol back and sides. The top is set off with a beautiful recreation of the original Excellente pickguard. The Maple neck has a Walnut and Maple center stripe and is hand-set with a tapered dovetail joint at the 14th fret. The Excellente neck has a 1960s era “C” profile, an Ebony fingerboard with “Cloud” inlays, a 25.5” scale, 20 medium jumbo frets, 12” radius, and a 1.68” bone nut. The headstock has a unique Excellente style “dovewing” profile, the only one of its kind, and features the Epiphone logo in Mother of Pearl with white binding.

Body Styles

Square Shoulder

Body Shape

Excellente

Body Material

Solid Ovangkol

Top

Solid Sitka Spruce

Back

Solid Ovangkol

Side

Solid Ovangkol

Binding

Ivory and Black 6-ply (top) and 4-ply (back)

Body FinishProfile

C

Scale Length

643.0 mm / 25.314 in

Fingerboard Material

Ebony

Fingerboard Radius

305.0 mm / 12.007 in

Fret Count

20

Frets

Medium Jumbo

Nut Material

Bone

Nut Width

43.0 mm / 1.692 in

Inlays

Excellente Clouds, 15th fret Block

Profile

C

Scale Length

643.0 mm / 25.314 in

Fingerboard Material

Ebony

Fingerboard Radius

305.0 mm / 12.007 in

Fret Count

20

Frets

Medium Jumbo

Nut Material

Bone

Nut Width

43.0 mm / 1.692 in

Inlays

Excellente Clouds, 15th fret Block

Strings Gauge

Gibson™ Phosphor Bronze Acoustic Guitar Strings .012", .016", .024"w, .032" .042", .053

Electronics

Under Saddle Pickup Fishman‚® Sonicore

Controls Fishman‚® Sonitone soundhole mounted Volume and Tone

Output Jack 1/4" Endpin Jack

Preamp Fishman Sonitone

Miscellaneous

Case Not Included