I recently inherited my brother's old guitar (more like rescued it from storage) and have been working on getting it back into playing shape after about 12 years of disuse. Being new to guitars in general, I've been searching online to try and figure out the model.
On first glance, it looks like it's an Epiphone. The case is branded Epiphone and it also has it on the truss guard. Also, the metal plate connecting the neck to the body says Epiphone with different numbers and designations (don't remember off the top of my head what they are as I don't have it with me at the moment).
Here's where it gets confusing (at least for me ). The body style looks exactly like a Fender Strat. As a matter of fact, almost exactly like this picture:
By my best guess, it was purchased sometime around 1996, but I don't know anything more about it. Does anyone have any ideas what it could be?