ID an epiphone offset v?

[442w30]

I found a beater epiphone V in a pawnshop today, Rhoads style, set neck 2 hum with a Kahler and MOP epiphone on the headstock. I have not been able to ID it or figure out if it's worth trying to save.
Has non-locking schallers with kewl [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] skulls (kidding!) and a Rhoads like pickguard.
It is not the cheap bolt on 'wing' logo V.
Any ideas if I should try and save it, or what the model # is?

[etaeniura]

Re: ID an epiphone offset v?

did you play it? If so and you like it, and it is cheap enough, pick it up.

[442w30]

Re: ID an epiphone offset v?

It was missing a couple of strings, but the frets looked good, and the neck was decent feeling. I'm leaning toward it, I was hoping to figure out the country of origin and maybe wood type . It needs rewiring too.

[The Eristic]

Re: ID an epiphone offset v?

Epi put out a few nicer "shred" guitars in the '80s, some of which were actually USA-made. Could possibly be one those.

[Accept2]

Re: ID an epiphone offset v?

It would most likely be from the Korean made series of shred guitars from 1986-1989. They had a bunch of superstrats called the S series, another batch called the X series, and so on. I dont remember what the Rhoads V was, might have been part of the X series..........