Epiphone Emperor Swingster (Wine Red) Overview
Swing Like a Pro with the NEW Epiphone Swingster! World famous for making some of the best and most innovative hollow-body guitars, Epiphone conjures up some of its past with the NEW Emperor Swingster. Starting with the same body and neck as used on their 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!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 NEW SwingBucker(tm) 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. But wait... there's MORE! Unlike some, Epiphone spares no expense by adding a "pinned" tune-o-matic bridge with roller saddles for smooth operation and accurate return to pitch which is preferred when using a vibrato.
Topping it all off are Epiphone's trademark, multi-bound headstock with the classic mother-of-pearl "vine" inlay, premium Grover(tm) tuners and a multi-bound, 20 fret Rosewood fingerboard with block inlay. Gorgeous! 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!
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- Top Material: Select Spruce- Arched with hand-scalloped bracing and sound post
- Back Material: Laminated Maple
- Side Material: Laminated Maple
- Neck Material: 3-pc Hard Maple
- Neck Shape: SlimTaper™
- Neck Joint: Glued-In
- Truss Rod: Adjustable
- Scale Length: 24.75"
- Fingerboard Material: Rosewood with mother-of-pearl Block inlays
- Bridge Pickup: SwingBucker™ Plus
- Neck Pickup: SwingBucker™
- 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"
- Frets: 20; medium-jumbo
- Bridge: "Pinned" Rosewood base with roller saddle tune-o-matic
- Tailpiece: Licensed Bigsby™ B30 Vibrato with wire handle
- Nut Width: 1-11/16"
- Hardware: Nickel
- Machine Heads: Grover™ 16:1 ratio
