Epiphone B.B. King Lucille Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar Ebony

I bought this guitar about a week ago after admiring it from afar and playing it a few times. I love this guitar. Besides the great looks this axe plays easily, the tone is great and the varitone feature is certainly very nice to have in combination with the effects that my Fender Mustand Amp gives me. So smooth and slick. The neck is different than my Epi Les Paul Traditional Pro IV but not in a bad way. I'm a huge blues fan & Lucille certainly fits the bill.

Great guitar, great ebony neck, plays beautifully.

Home playing. Excellent value for money. Super playability for less experienced fingers. Warm sound.

I have always been fond of the Epiphone Lucille since it has the same name as my mother. That is why I took off BB King's name and put an image of a woman on the truss rod cover. I bought my first Lucille from M.F. in 2015 and now the new version in 2022. The 2022 version has a lot of changes. The first thing I noticed was its body is a 1/2 inch larger. When I try to put it into a 335-style case, it would not fit. I took out my 2015 version which had a loose-fitting Epiphone case and it the fit was much tighter. The neck is also thicker and a tiny bit wider. They change the fingerboard from rosewood to ebony and made the neck and body binding pure white a change from aged white. They have completely changed the electronics by getting rid of the circuit board from the old version. They got rid of the jack plate that the old version which had with Stereo/Mono on it and moved the jack pins closer together. They change the headstock shape to the new Epiphone shape. What's this all mean? They are very different guitars. It comes down to personal taste. I really like the new 2022 version and think it is a winner, but I like the old version too. I thought when I got the new version, I would want to sell the old version. I went back and forth playing them and finally decided I would keep them both. The 2022 version has a brighter sound when using a Roland jazz amp. Using a different amp will make a lot of difference. The new version is trying to be more like the Gibson version which costs more than 7 times the price of the Epiphone. The fit and finish are just about perfect on the 2022 version. The older version is not as perfect as the new one. If I had to choose between the two of them, I would pick the new 2022 version. :-)

I have a 2019 Model and it sounds great, easy to play, very smooth neck and setup good from factory. It is being played in Haymaker a band my Son is the frontman for and that guitar can scream. I like Epiphone Guitars they've been around for a long time and Gibson stepped up the quality of they;re lower end guitars using better electronics and keeping an eye on quality control.

I have the original Epiphone Lucille from 5 years ago. If i had the money,i would also buy the new Epi Lucille and drop different pickups in it. The workmanship in the body and neck are great, though, with. lots of epiphone axes, the parts felt a little cheap. Didn't like the stock Alnico humbuckers (I prefer single coils). I removed all gold hardware and replaced them with higher quality nickel hardware, with a patina'd finish. I added Tone Pros stop bar and saddles, Grover locking tuners, Switchcraft 3-way switch, Seymour Duncan Phat Cat Single Coil pickups, SG-type knobs, and made my own sloppy asymmetrical truss rod cover. My luthier wasn't thrilled to be having to solder the new pickups to a circuit board (Veritone). I'm glad the people at Gibson did away with the thin plastic plate covering the stereo jacks! Mine cracked and i replaced it with metal. I play mostly indie rock and am not a blues guitarist but this guitar rules. This guitar plays rock very well. At the Pumpkins farewell concert, James Iha played a red (Gibson) Lucille. Also, Refused played one when touring.