NVGD - Mid 60's Epiphone Wilshire. Now with added clips!

[murraymurray]

I was unsure what the acronym meant, though new video game day?

I remember not liking these when i first saw them, but then the style slowly grew on me, now i think theyre pretty cool
so congrats, hope it plays mean

[SG Thrasher]

That looks sick ( I think that is the thing that young people say when something looks good).

'Sweet' or 'Bullet' would have also been accepted.

Very nice guitar, I've been gassing for one of these since I saw the Phil X video of that '65.

[Andrew W]

Very nice guitar, I've been gassing for one of these since I saw the Phil X video of that '65.

That video was the one that broke the camel's back for me and made decide to get one should one turn up at price that was right.  Dangerous place the internet, dangerous place.

[Roobubba]

I like this a lot, really classy guitar!

Roo

[Philly Q]

I like this a lot, really classy guitar!

You surprise me Roo, I thought you were more of a modernist!

[Roobubba]

I like this a lot, really classy guitar!

You surprise me Roo, I thought you were more of a modernist!

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't have one myself, like. :)

[Andrew W]

I've been doing some detective work (all right, using Google a lot) to try and date the little brute.  I think it's a late '64 or early '65 example for the reasons below.  If any more knowledgeable forumites can spot holes in my thinking it'd be great if you could let me know.  All of the "information" below comes from various sites on the internet so there could be multiple bum steers.  Anyway this is my reasoning:

• The body has no belly cut at the back which was added during 1965
• It has mini-humbuckers not P90s, making it 1964 or later
• It looks like it started out life with the maestro vibrola unit which was not offered from 1966 on
• Bat-wing headstock means 1964ish at the earliest
• It has the asymetrical body shape which was introduced in 1964

Does this seem right to people?  I'm interested in finding out as much as I can about the guitar because I'd love to know what was happening in the world when it was made and what kind of things its first owner might have been playing on it.  I think I may be over-sentimental. :)

I was going to take some better photos this afternoon but then apocalypse started, the light went and the rain came so bang went that idea.  I'll try again tomorrow.

[Roobubba]

I've been doing some detective work (all right, using Google a lot) to try and date the little brute.  I think it's a late '64 or early '65 example for the reasons below.  If any more knowledgeable forumites can spot holes in my thinking it'd be great if you could let me know.  All of the "information" below comes from various sites on the internet so there could be multiple bum steers.  Anyway this is my reasoning:

• The body has no belly cut at the back which was added during 1965
• It has mini-humbuckers not P90s, making it 1964 or later
• It looks like it started out life with the maestro vibrola unit which was not offered from 1966 on
• Bat-wing headstock means 1964ish at the earliest
• It has the asymetrical body shape which was introduced in 1964

Does this seem right to people?  I'm interested in finding out as much as I can about the guitar because I'd love to know what was happening in the world when it was made and what kind of things its first owner might have been playing on it.  I think I may be over-sentimental. :)

I was going to take some better photos this afternoon but then apocalypse started, the light went and the rain came so bang went that idea.  I'll try again tomorrow.

I wouldn't dig too much into the first owner's musical tastes. If you find out he/she'd been playing the Beatles on it, you'd have to burn that mother$%&#er. And the guitar, too.

And that would be a shame, because it does look quite nice! :)

[FernandoDuarte]

Don't be that serious with the guitar Roo, because....


because...




"She loves you YEAH YEAH YEAH"

[Andrew W]

I vaguely promised to try and record something and I had a few spare minutes this evening when I got in from work so I did a quick demo.  The Wilshire's plugged into a TS 808 with the level high, the overdrive low and the tone at twelve o'clock.  The pedal is plugged into the Cornell Romany and that's it.  I really need to set some time aside to try and do some proper recording with mic placement and the whole bit but work commitments mean that's not likely until mid summer.  The sound's on the video is not great quality as it's recorded by my Canon Ixus but it gives an idea of the sound.  I'm really getting into these mini-humbuckers and I'd love to put some in another guitar.  Perhaps Tim will one day make some...

Anyway, here's the video. Don't worry Roo, no matter how I temped I was to do a Beatles tune, I resisted and you can't see my Tele in frame at all. :)

EDIT: I've done another video to show some cleaner tones and the different pickup combinations.

[FernandoDuarte]

Sounds really good! Nice mustache!

[Andrew W]

Sounds really good! Nice mustache!

Thanks and thanks! :)

[_tom_]

I've always liked the odd/quirky look of those guitars, sounds good in the vid as well :)

[38thBeatle]

Thats a sweet bullet .

[martinw]

I've been doing some detective work (all right, using Google a lot) to try and date the little brute.  I think it's a late '64 or early '65 example for the reasons below.  If any more knowledgeable forumites can spot holes in my thinking it'd be great if you could let me know.  All of the "information" below comes from various sites on the internet so there could be multiple bum steers.  Anyway this is my reasoning:

Have the pots got a code on them? That often helps.