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Are epiphones guitars a good buy?

I’ve heard a lot of mixed reviews about epiphones. Are they bad guitars, or do they just seem bad compared to gibsons? Can a $600 epiphone compare to a $600 fender?
Epiphone owners, what do you think of your guitar?
By the way, i’ve been playing for five years, so i’m not looking for a beginner guitar.

One has to play it, does it fit your hand? etc.
Epiphone is a Gibson company. Usually, they’re good guitars, personally i’d look at others in the style/type you want; Play it, if it has an Epiphone name on the headstock buy it, if you like it. I have an Epiphone acoustic that is one of the best playin’ guitars around. But it does not mean I dislike my Ibanez, Yamaha, or Aria either.
Price has very little to do with a good guitar. I bought a just great classical for $30 from a lady that just didn’t play it and a Harmony for cheap that is a cheap guitar, but playable.
Anyway, good luck. pick away…
P.S. if you go somewhere to buy a guitar ask a musician to go with ya and help pick one out if you trust them, else most guitars these days over a few hundred are at least usually playable.

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