Epiphone Emperor Swingster OR
The Emperor Swingster is our dazzling go-to rockabilly, jazz and rock hollowbody classic. It features Epiphone SwingBucker pickups with classic Alnico-V magnets, Grover machine heads, a LockTone Tune-o-matic bridge, and best of all, a licensed B30 Bigsby with original style "wire" handle as preferred by "Certified Guitar Player" and legend Chet Atkins.
World famous for making some of the best and most innovative hollow-body guitars, Epiphone conjures up some of its past with the 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!
• Body: maples with maple Outer Veneer
• Top: Select Spruce
• Neck: Hard maple
• Scale: 24.75”
• Headstock: Epiphone ‘Clipped Ear’
• Neck Profile: 14”
• Fretboard: pearloid rectangular blocks
• Frets: 20 Medium Jumbo
• Nut Width: 1.68”
• Neck Pickup: Swingbucker with Alnico V magnets
• Bridge Pickup: Swingbucker™ Plus with Alnico V magnets
• Controls: Two push/pull Tone controls allow you to change each pickup's output individually from parallel to series wiring
• Bridge: “Pinned” Tune-O-Matic Bridge with gold saddles
• Tailpiece: Bigsby B30
• Hardware: Nickel
• Tuners: Grover 14:1 ratio
• Color: Sunrise Orange (OR), Translucent Black (TB), Wine Red (WR)
• Typical Weight (+/- 5%): 7.3 lbs
• Strings: D’Addario 11, 14, 19 (wound) 30, 41, 52