I bought a new Epiphone Casino in 1964.USA Kalamazoo made, with short headstock.quite expensive at time.£276.12.7d.in old money.about £5K now. Try it, It might also be worth looking for a Epiphone Sorrento reissue hollow body with min humbuckers. Now I have the tele I keep that in standard and use my casino for open tunings slide. When I've had to sell guitars for whatever reason, this one is the one I've kept. I don't think I'll ever sell mine, Its a great guitar to have around when you just want to pick up and play unplugged.
I plan to swap the neck out for a mojo gold foil at some point. I basically only use the bridge pick up on this guitar although there are some good sounds in the middle if you play with the volume and tone controls, Its a lot of fun with a cranked amp and a fuzz pedal. The pickups are quite dark, I like this for the stuff I play Garage Rock, Black keys, Soul blues its great, I have a Tele when I want a brighter sound. Make sure you try one the neck isn't very wide and is quite chunky it took some getting used to but now I really like it.
Epiphone custom shop on the back of the head stock.
I've had one for a long time its a Chinese made Bigsby model.
