Epiphone SQ-180 Neil Diamond Signature Custom Shop

If you are a Neil Diamond fan than this is a great guitar to add to your collection. If you are in a Neil Diamond cover band you need this as part of your act! Condition is mint, barely played. He played this Epiphone for years.

This limited edition Epiphone SQ-180 Neil Diamond Signature guitar, manufactured in Korea in the late 1990s, is based on the handy J-180, the scaled-down Super Jumbo design of the Everly Brothers from 1962. Alongside the J-200, the J-180 is one of the most popular acoustic guitars in the world and has been played by some of the most famous guitarists of all time, from Cat Stevens to Paul McCartney and Tom Petty, and even Neil Diamond himself... and this incredibly delicious-looking Epiphone SQ-180 Neil Diamond continues the legacy today.

The guitar is a faithful reproduction of the 1962 Everly Brothers original, with a 16" lower bout body width and a finely resonant solid Sitka spruce top and maple back and sides, which together deliver a powerful sound with clear highs and differentiated bell-like overtones. The voluminous soundboard also gives the guitar a wide dynamic range and delivers a convincing sound, from delicate fingerpicking to passionate strumming.

As a special extra, this guitar comes in a special, sparkling metallic black high-gloss finish, which is tastefully complemented by the gold/chrome hybrid Gotoh Deluxe tuners, the Neil Diamond signature prominently displayed on the headstock, and the interlocking pearloid diamond pickguards.

The slim mahogany neck with a 39.6mm nut width is also extremely comfortable for smaller hands, and the 20 frets on the rosewood fingerboard with cream-white binding and special pearloid diamond inlays are incredibly smooth to play, despite the guitar's age.

Technical specifications:

• Origin: Saein, Korea
• Year of manufacture: 2000
• Body type: J-180 (Small Jumbo)
• Top: Sitka spruce (solid)
• Back/sides: Maple
• Neck: Mahogany, set-in
• Fingerboard: Rosewood with pearloid diamond inlays, bound
• Frets: 20
• Headstock: Angled mahogany headstock with Neil Diamond signature on the front and Gibson truss rod cover
• Nut width: 39.6mm
• Bridge: Rosewood belly down
• Tuners: Epiphone Gotoh Deluxe chrome tuners with gold pegs
• Bindings: Ivory with multi-layer purfling
• Rosette: Concentric rings, multi-layer
• Pickguard: Pearloid custom interconnected diamonds, single layer
• Finish: Black metallic high gloss
• Scale length: 628mm
• Serial no.: 00070021
• Includes black ROK SAK soft case

This limited edition Epiphone signature model is rare today.

This Epiphone SQ-180 Neil Diamond is in mint condition and technically flawless. Visually, if at all, it shows only the finest signs of use (see pictures). The frets are like new.