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The Swingster electric guitar with innovations from Epiphone will make you swing Like a pro! Starting with the same body and neck as used on the Epiphone Emperor II guitar and made famous by the jazz master himself, Joe Pass, Epiphone swings into action and turns it into a serious twangin', rock-a-billy slingin', country flingin' machine!
Classic Construction with SwingBucker Pickups!
With it's hand-scalloped arched spruce top combined with a laminated arched-back maple body and glued-in 3-piece hard maple neck, the Swingster has what it takes to satisfy any professional's demand for great tone. At the heart of the guitar are Epiphone's SwingBucker pickups and a series/parallel electronics switching package that outperforms all others in it's class. Specially designed for the Swingster, the humbuckers offer no hum performance and feature classic Alnico-V magnets, enamel wire and over-wound coils for the perfect combination of warmth and bite.
Series/Parallel Switching
Two push/pull Tone controls allow you to change each pickup's output individually from parallel to series wiring creating a palette of useful sounds to tap into ranging from warm humbuckers to quacky single-coil type sounds and everything in-between. Of course, any swinging machine needs a vibrato and the Swingster is no exception featuring a Bigsby Licensed B30 with original style wire handle as preferred by Certified Guitar Player and legend, Chet Atkins.
Plus, Epiphone has included a pinned tune-o-matic bridge with roller saddles for smooth operation and accurate return to pitch which is preferred when using a vibrato.
Loads of Bling
Topping it all off are Epiphone's trademark, multi-bound headstock with the classic mother-of-pearl vine inlay, premium Grover tuners and a multi-bound, 20 fret rosewood fingerboard with block inlay. Gorgeous! And Epiphone stands behind every guitar they make with a Limited Lifetime Warranty and Gibson 24/7/365 Customer Service. If you're ready for a professional guitar with unique features and a killer price tag, swing into a new Emperor Swingster today. Can you dig it? Oh yeah!
Epiphone Emperor Electric Guitar Specifications
- Top Material: Select Spruce
- Back Material: Laminated Maple
- Side Material: Laminated Maple
- Neck Material: 3-piece Hard Maple
- Neck Shape: SlimTaper
- Neck Joint: Glued-In
- Truss Rod: Adjustable
- Scale Length: 24.75 inches
- Fingerboard: Rosewood with mother-of-pearl Block inlays
- Neck Pickup: SwingBucker
- Bridge Pickup: SwingBucker Plus
- Controls: Bridge Volume, Neck Volume, Bridge Tone with push-pull series/parallel, Neck Tone with push-pull series/parallel, 3-way pickup selector (toggle)
- Binding: Headstock - 5 ply, Neck - 5 ply, Body - 5 ply, F holes - 1 ply
- Fingerboard Radius: 14 inches
- Frets: 20; medium-jumbo
- Bridge: Pinned Rosewood base with roller saddle tune-o-matic, Licensed Bigsby B30 Vibrato with wire handle
- Nut Width: 1 11/16 inches
- Hardware: Nickel
- Machine Heads: Grover 16:1 ratio
- Options: Hard Case
- Warranty: Epiphone Limited Lifetime
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| Gretsch has major competition! |
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| Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? |
| I think this guitar is made very well and will hold up well over time. I believe I can count on this gig after gig. |
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| so far so good (3 months) |
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| I really love this guitar, beautiful and functional, and a great price! |
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| Playability and Feel |
| How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? |
| this is a very nice feeling neck, admittedly, I had to smooth out some jagged edges to the frets, but after that it was amazing, Bigsby works great! |
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| Tone |
| Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? |
| very versatile tone. Smooth jazz tones or twangy rockabilly right up to straight out classic rocker. |
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| beautiful Sunset Orange finish... looks just like a Setzer Gretsch. |
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| How was the action out of the box? |
| pretty descent out of the box, a little neck and bridge adjust and it was sweet! |
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