There are 3 different MIC Casino's in production now, the Casino Coupe, Casino Worn and the Casino, each are slightly different with slightly different hardware and in the past more MIC model variations. Good luck with the wait, I hate buying something sight unseen but there’s not much of a choice these days. I’m guessing because there just hasn’t been any options in the past (MIC, MIJ or Vintage). As for the rest. I don’t doubt they’re worth it, but the price tags on the MIJ guitars seems a little inflated to me. Hoping they continue to manufacture (what is frankly a model that deserve a permanent place in the Custom Shop) in the USA. I almost went for the USA but again, the goal was to get something up a little cheaper (<$1k) to gig with. If the pickups are super hot then that may be a necessary swap.

I’d suggest Thro Bak P90’s but they’re pretty pricey.Ĭongrats on your NGD! Casino’s are really great versatile Guitars! I own 3 & have the new made in USA on Order. It will sound as good as just about any Casino. Both have Gibson USA P90’s, Switchcraft components & basically better everything.įor your Guitar the most I’d invest would be a set of Fralin, Lollar or Duncan P90’s & a really good Set Up. But, you’d be better off buying an IBJL or Elitist. You could sink many hundreds of dollars trying to make really great. €86.99 was the total bill for parts and labour.They’re actually pretty decent Guitars. Not a simple job when you have to wire it through the f-holes! It played really well at the end and the customer was very happy. I also put a new switchcraft output jack into the guitar. I then set the guitar up for a low action with 10 guage strings. Eventually I get to a polish with steel wool.Īt the end the frets looked brand new and played perfectly. Next I sand out the file marks with finer and finer grades of sand paper. It has a curve built in so it can bring the frets from flat back to a curve. Next I recrowned the frets with the Fret crowning file. I don’t have a pic of this.Then I got down to levelling!Īs you can see I removed lots of metal. I removed the nut and checked the neck was straight with a notched straight edge. It also needed a general set up and clean. Due to the fret ware from 15ish years of playing it needed a good fret dressing to address the buzzing all over the neck. By that I mean the owner proabably played this guitar most days for the last 15 years.The intonation was visably wrong, all the saddles were maxed out at the front of the bridge and playing was terrible.

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