Both were eventually branded Gibson (see the Gibson Howard Roberts) once Epiphone production left Kalamazoo at the end of the 1960s. Only one pre-Gibson model, the Epiphone Broadway kept it's original full body depth, but it was joined in 1964 by a new model, a signature guitar for jazz guitarist Howard Roberts, and then a second model the Howard Roberts Custom in 1965. Over the next few years, Gibson relaunched many of these models, and added several more keeping original names, and selected design features and hardware from pre-Gibson days, but the majority were given a new thinner body, in keeping with the popular Electric Spanish series guitars just launched by Gibson ( ES-330, ES-335 etc). They inherited all tooling, partially finished instruments and components, allowing them to continue Epiphone production. When Gibson took on the Epiphone marque, they brought production from Philadelphia to their Kalamazoo plant in Michigan.
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