Epiphone Crestwood

The Epiphone Crestwood was a solid-body electric guitar launched in 1958 and discontinued in 1970. After Epiphone discontinued the Crestwood, a number of re-issues and replicas has been available from different companies.

History
The Crestwood was launched in 1958 by Epiphone. The guitar was a double cutaway solid-body construction in mahogany with dual New Yorker pickups, three-on-a-side headstock and a pickguard with the Epiphone logo. In late 1959 the guitar was renamed the Crestwood Custom and the body's edges were rounded off and the pickguard got a different design. In 1961 the dot markers were replaced with oval markers and the pickguard lost its Epiphone logo. By 1963 the body got a slightly longer upper horn, a six on-a-side headstock and the gold plating were replaced with nickel plating. Epiphone also launched the Crestwood DeLuxe which can easily be described as a three pickup version of the Crestwood Custom, it also featured an ebony fretboard with block inlays. The Crestwood DeLuxe was discontinued in 1969 and the Crestwood Custom the year after.

Notable users

 * Elliott Smith
 * Vigilante Carlstroem - The Hives
 * "Captain" Kirk Douglas - The Roots
 * Robert Dahlqvist - The Hellacopters, Thunder Express
 * Ray Hanson - Thee Hypnotics
 * Wayne Kramer - MC5
 * Fred "Sonic" Smith - MC5
 * Deniz Tek - Radio Birdman
 * Johnny Winter
 * Sean Harrasser - Harvester