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Rob Laing

Hendrix's Epiphone Wilshire guitar is up for sale at $1.25 million

The King Kasuals featuring Jimi Hendrix

The Epiphone Wilshire is a good value electric guitar for anyone, especially as it's been reissued, but one played by a young Jimi Hendrix? Well try $1.25 million.

Such is the premium of providence associated with the greatest rock guitarist of all time, but before everyone else knew about him and his Fender Strats, Jimi was the sharp-suited guitarist with his 1961 Wilshire in The King Kasuals alongside army buddy and bassist Billy Cox. 

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