My right hand loves it and my left loves the fingerboard side. I'd like to get this Epiphone just a bit better feeling in the hand. Because it's so light weight, just a tad heavier than my MIA Strat compared to my Gibson LP it almost feels like I'm playing a PRS. Interestingly, my Chibson LP's gloss neck feels WONDERFUL as does it's shape. Maybe the thickness of the finish needs to be minimzed which will happen with judicious scotchbriting.

It did feel better than new when I buffed it up again. Even when I did the scotchbrite thing before it still felt weird. I may go at it again with some scotchbrite or maybe steel wool. The Epiphone has a weird feel to the gloss neck. My natural penchant is to not mess with it, but then it keeps nagging me. And I'm also don't know how I would go about refinishing the neck, were I to take sand paper to it. I'm a bit afraid of what I'm going to find under the paint in terms of wood grain and color. So I'm thinking about sanding the back of the neck for both color and feel. In my mind I envision a gradation of color, not unlike the front and back of the guitar. And perhaps the shoulders could use a bit of tapering? I dunno. And perhaps it's the solid black that's annoying me in addition to a little too much 'stiction'.

I did the scotchbrite thing and didn't like that feel much better than the gloss and buffed it back up again. While not my favorite neck shape, the one thing that bothers me about this guitar is the feel of the poly and the color of the back of the neck. Fingerboard is as good as it's going to be and I even rolled the fingerboard edges some which really improved the feel. I could probably swap out the pickups and improve it. But it's still really good and when playing electric taking it off the wall more and more. I've not put it side by side with a Gibson or The Heritage, but I don't have any false notion that it would be anywhere near the quality nor top them in sound quality. And perhaps 'mint condition' is the key phrase here. I was lucky enough to trade a Squier Strat straight up for a mint condition Epi Dot. As if there weren't more important things to worry about and consider.

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