Epiphone Caballero

[AZMLII]

Does anyone have experience with the original or reissue Epiphone Caballero?

The reissue looks like about 00 size.  And I had an Epiphone AJ200 that Played well, but was just too big.

I’m curious.

 

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/EACBANSNH3--epiphone-caballero-artist-aged-natural

[Neal]

My first real guitar was a Caballero FT-130, 197...2?3?  Back then there was a commercial on TV, yup, a guitar commercial on T effin V, about if you can’t afford a great guitar, get a good one.  It was a good one.  Cool commercial sold me.  Back then it was north of 100 bucks new.  
 

Had 2 Masterbilts as well, same model, and those were good ones too.  That one looks like a good one.

[AZMLII]

17 hours ago, Neal said:

My first real guitar was a Caballero FT-130, 197...2?3?  Back then there was a commercial on TV, yup, a guitar commercial on T effin V, about if you can’t afford a great guitar, get a good one.  It was a good one.  Cool commercial sold me.  Back then it was north of 100 bucks new.  
 

Had 2 Masterbilts as well, same model, and those were good ones too.  That one looks like a good one.

Neal, thank you.  That's a great story and brought a smile to my face.  Also, thank you for letting me know your experience with the original Caballeros and Masterbuilts.

There's not much information out there about these.

BTW, I've always been a fan of not letting the perfect/great stand in the way of the good.

Cheers,

Patrick

[DeepEnd]

The music store in my little home town sold Epiphones back in the 70's. They didn't carry anything smaller than a 000 though and none of them looked like your example. Typical pricing was about $120 and up with a chipboard case.