The Final Frontier: Bringing an Old Epiphone Acoustic Back from the Dead

You've heard about our Restomod guitars made from rescued and repurposed vintage guitars, but this week's video is a case of pure restoration. This old Epiphone Frontier was barely a guitar when we first met it: the neck was separated from the body and split at the heel, and believe it or not, it had no top!
Sit down with a cozy beverage and let Mike regale you with the tale of how we rescued this Epiphone from the trash heap, with a community of talented luthiers acting as our own little Genesis Device.
The folks who contributed to this amazing restoration:
www.portlandfre... (Top)
southsoundguit... (Neck heel repair and reattachment)
riggiocustomgu... (Amazing refin and lacquer checking)
fox-guitars.com (The best Gibson/Epiphone replacement guards around)

[@conorfowler]

Everyone: Sir, the odds of successfully restoring this guitar are 3720 to one!
Mike: Never tell me the odds!

[@lastofthe4horsemen279]

Just bought the new Masterbuilt reissue Frontier.Highly reccomend I love it.

[@bucko5427]

cool story. You made that guitar more cool than it ever could have been.

[@GtrPknMama]

Nice job!!!!
Love my 70’s Epiphone 12 string😎👍🎵

[@jcholden1611]

Fabulous conclusion to a great story.

[@essehindeed]

Great storytelling fellas.

[@fleshbhones]

I would put one of Mike's Trek stickers on that bad boy....maybe I shouldn't own any vintage instruments

[@ampoll88]

Great to hear this guitar’s story! Looks amazing!

[@thebreakfastmenu]

Wow. I never would have guessed that top wasn't original.

[@AZX223]

Great edit on this one Mike

[@Edward1312]

What a stunningly beautiful looking guitar. Absolutely great job done to make it look vintage and original. Always great to see what is and was a great instrument brought back to life! I believe however, that as well as having a natural instead of sunburst finish the original bridge on the guitar was adjustable.

[@mistople]

Great story and guitar!

[@tonyevans9999]

wow, that sounds spectacularly good. Very well done one and all

[@alexanderdrury3308]

🤯

[@shaneguarin5064]

քʀօʍօֆʍ 😓

[@taylormoon3561]

You’re almost closer to having built a new guitar than having done a restoration.

[@WysteriaGuitar]

You could have bought a new one for about a G and save money and time...