Made in September of 2016 this guitar is absolutely superb and stunning and I only play Gibson's exclusively. I was out looking for a Gibson 335 found this and played it and was completely blown away. I am usually not a fan of Epiphone, but this one they really did it right. Literally MINT condition and all original. Only used for recording and never gigged. Only issue is input jack loosened and needs to be tightened. I tightened it by hand and it's good, but I don't have to tool to get it from loosening again. No cracks.. perfect frets.. and no jagged frets on the edges.. smooth playing... and great sounding pickups. Made a short video playing thru a VOX Mini 5 Practice amp. Got to pay bills.. look @ my other ads too! Purchased a new Epiphone hard shell case which has no tears, rips and all latches work perfect too..