375 inches thick, glued to the inside of the top. However, it has a grooved solid Maple pad, up to about. This makes the guitar very light and comfortable, though it also makes it more susceptible to feedback at higher volumes. It does not have the solid center block of the ES-335.
The ES-230 Casino, like the ES-330, is a fully hollow archtop electric guitar, with its body made of a Maple / Poplar laminate. As well, the dot position markers were changed to parallelogram markers and the plastic pickup covers were replaced with metal covers. The 1961 models used a 1950’s style shorter headstock with a metal Epiphone logo plate, but for 1962 that design was revamped to the longer, narrower headstock with inlaid Epiphone logo still used today.
Originally appearing in 1961 as a sister model to the Gibson ES-330, the Epiphone Casino model ES-230TD is very similar to its sister model, the Gibson ES-330TD the TD in both model designations stands for Two Pickup, Double Cutaway. The Epiphone John Lennon Revolution Casino was built between 20, as a limited run of 1965 guitars, to commemorate John Lennon’s 1965 Casino in its stripped-down form.
