Epiphone B.B. King Lucille

Just arrived this morning. Wow! Really impressed. My (possibly inaccurate) scales put it at 4.2Kg - it has a great weight in the hand, solid feeling but not a dead weight.

The fit and finish are pretty flawless, a really nice job. Frets are actually quite shiny with little of the usual scratchiness of new Epi's. The neck is perfect - same profile as my Epi '59 which I love. The ebony fretboard is very nice. The Grover tuners are very smooth. All the hardware feels and looks top-notch.

Out of the box the action, intonation are more than acceptable. I'll be quite happy to just tune it up and play away until I get around to doing a setup.

I took a chance on this. Always fancied a 335, but the neck "lottery" put me off as different years' of Gibsons all have differing profiles. I like a decently chunky neck and that was one of the features described for Lucille. Very glad I clicked that button!

The Epilite case is also impressive. No worries moving it around in that.

All in all, yeah. I will be holding on to this, and highly recommend it to anyone.

Great service from Thomann as usual. Arrived at my door in Ireland well (double) packaged 6 days after ordering.