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1939 Epiphone Olympic

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The good thing with posting about a pre-Gibson Epiphone Olympic archtop is that you hardly have to add anything - everything has been said and contemplation is all that is needed (in my humbleness I don't even consider ever playing on such a beauty).

I can still point at the floating Kent pickup that was added probably in the 1960s - if I'm not wrong Kent was a Japanese company producing DeArmond-like jazz pickups in the 1960s (note how the pickguard was modified to instal it).

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