1929(c.) Epiphone Recording B

While today most everybody is familiar with Epiphone guitars, in the late-'20s Epiphone was known primarily as a banjo company. At that point, they'd had greatest success with their highly-ornamented "Recording" line of banjos. Building off that success, Epiphone launched the "Recording" line of six-string guitars in late 1928. The Recording line included models A through E (higher in the alphabet meant increasingly higher levels of appointments), and while there was little consistency with the specs, all of the Epiphone Recording guitars featured inventive designs, remarkably different from the guitars that become popular in the '30s.  Unfortunately, the Epiphone Recording series were the victim of poor timing: when the stock market crashed, the musical instrument market crashed along with it. The Recording line was never a strong seller because it didn't have the high-profile celebrity endorsements other brands had. As Epiphone restructured its entire line in 1931, they abandoned the