Epiphone Alleykat Electric Guitar

A recent trend in guitar manufacturing is the production of instruments that reference traditional models without emulating them identically. Maybe it's because they're running out of reissues, but companies like Fender (American Standards), Danelectro (Hodad), and Epiphone (WildKat and AlleyKat) are now producing models that offer modern mods to meet the needs of today's players while managing not to throw out the vintage values "baby" with the bathwater.