Epiphone ES-339 Cherry

NuBone nut, Grover tuners, CTS POTs, Mahogony Rounded C neck... this guitar was made with best spec that close to Gibson. Also the play feeling and sound are good enough. The color looks gorgeous. By the way, it works well even I set action of 12th fret to 1.5mm/1mm per 6th string/1st string! That is excellent for budget guitar around this price range.

Only issue is about quality. some very slight painting defects can be found on F-hole inner edge, neck binding edge...etc; Volume/Tone knob did not be installed to same direction. but that are not concern. The guitar I get has defect on 9th and 12th fret. They are very rough and there is visible polished abrasion. Maybe factory QC forgot or not going to do fine polish after some adjustment. This is visible and easy to feel it when play with bending or vibrato. Hope it being eased after few months play. Except this fret abrasion issue, this is a well-made guitar so I still gave 3 stars on quality point.

If you're considering a well-look, reliable semi-acoustic guitar but don't want to spend big money, go get this one.

I was debating in my mind for quite some time of whether to get this or the Gibson 339. I couldn't justify the 5x price difference, so I went with this.
First one that I ordered arrived with a damaged neck - it had a crack. It looked to be from shipment. Not Epiphones fault. Not Thomanns fault (they actually handled the claim very professionally). I lost some time, but I was not in any rush.
When I finally received the real deal, I wasn't impressed at the set-up. Strings were set too high, but that is a very quick adjustment. In all fairness, when I received my Gibson LP ~8 years ago, it had the same issue with string height. The frets are not perfectly polished. You can see that + feel that when bending the strings. There were almost no sharp edges when you slide the hand over the neck side. Body finish of the guitar is not perfect - there are some paint marks around the F holes. Binding isn't cleared evenly. Strings/frets/fretboard were very dirty - made my fingers black. Sticky neck (I'm used to sating finished/bare necks). So my suggestions would be:
1. make sure that all of electronics work/there are no damages.
2. take off the strings and clean the neck. Oil the neck - leave it for ~5-8 hours.
3. Restring with good quality strings.
4. Do the intonation and height.
Pickups are great. In all fairness, I was thinking that I would need to change them, but they sound really, really nice.
I've already light sanded the neck to make it mat (my personal preference). I have also changed the tuning pegs to Gotoh locking ones - I only did this since I already ordered them to be delivered with the guitar. No real issues with the original tuners. Seamed to hold the tuning just fine.
I would suggest this guitar to anyone. Just keep in mind that this is a cheap guitar and you need a good clean and set-up. Be aware of possible finish flaws.

This is a great guitar and has so many high quality features with the GraphTech nut, Grover Tuners and LockTone Bridge. I have 7 Gibsons and this has the fattest neck of them all which feels great. It's a shame they used Mahogany as it does neck-dive, and Maple might have been a better choice here. The paintwork is poor where red paint is visible over the binding in some places which is disappointing QA. The CTS pots don't live up to expectations as the volume only kicks in at 5 on the Neck and Bridge PUP, so I question if CTS at all as per the Epiphone website. That said it's still a great purchase for the price and swap out the PUPs for some sweet P90s to make it really sing.