NEW ARRIVAL This guitar is from Epiphone’s golden archtop age, when the company was still based in New York before they were bought by Gibson in 1957. 30’s and 40’s Epiphone archtops have long been considered among the best of their kind, and the Epiphone Olympic is now famous in it’s own right as the guitar of choice of David Rawlings. The guitar unusually features a Poplar top with Mahogany back and sides, compared to their spruce-topped guitars of around the same time, these have a slightly woodier tone to them. The guitar is in excellent condition, and lends itself to blues, jazz, country, bluegrass, old time and swing. It also has the added bonus of a Kent Armstrong floating pickup being fitted, which gives even more tonal variety. The guitar comes with it’s original pickguard and fixings, and could be adapted to fit around the pickup should the next owner choose. It even comes in it’s original, although battered, hard case.