Signature guitar design is easy, isn’t it? Take an off-the-peg model, give it a lick of paint, put a squiggle on it somewhere, and talk up the proprietary tonal benefits until the cash rolls in? Well, ...

You can’t fail to have noticed what Epiphone has been doing recently. Not only are its standard ‘Inspired by Gibson’ models better than ever, but the upper-level ‘Inspired by Gibson Custom’ range has, ...