Epiphone Emperor Swingster Forest Green

Electric Guitar

Design: Hollowbody
Body: Laminated maple
Top: Laminated maple
Neck: Mahogany
Fretboard: Indian Laurel (laurel)
Block fretboard inlays
Neck profile: slim taper
7-Ply binding
Scale length: 628 mm (24.724")
Nut width: 43 mm (1.693")
Frets 22
Pickups 2 Epiphone SwingBucker humbuckers
2 Volume controllers with push / pull function for serial / parallel
2 Tone controls
3-Way switch
LockTone Tuneomatic bridge with wooden base
Licensed Bigsby tremolo
Grover Rotomatic machine heads
Colour: Forest Green Metallic

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Item number 502013

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Colour Green

Body Maple

Top Maple

Neck Mahogany

Fretboard Indian Laurel

Frets 22

Scale 628 mm

Pickups HH

Tremolo Yes

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Incl. Bag No

£666

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My first hollow body electric guitar

NoraPatches 19.03.2023

This is my first electric hollow body guitar. It arrived in very good condition, but unfortunately, one of the TONE caps keeps falling off. I put a little piece of paper inside the cap itself because the hole seems to be too wide, causing it to fall off.

Regarding the sound, it came with a set of 10's, but I prefer playing with 12's. So, after a day, I changed all the strings to Elixir 12's and adjusted the action and intonation for the new gauge. The sound is unlike anything I have heard before, and I enjoy the series-parallel switching option of the SwingBuckers. The guitar already has a nice, creamy, warm tone when I plug it directly into my mixer. I'm using a Roland CUBE80XL amplifier, and I totally dig how the Swingster sounds through it; this is a great-sounding instrument.

One thing that bothers me, though, is that the body and neck take some time to get used to (this thing is HEAVY!), and it's a fairly large instrument. I'm also considering changing down to 11's from the 12's, maybe. Overall, I'm satisfied with my purchase, but this guitar will certainly take some time to get fully used to, and I can only hope I haven't taken on a Sisyphean task.

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Beautiful guitar

DC816 23.12.2023

Really beautiful looking and sounding guitar!
It's a joy to play and arrived pretty much perfect in terms of setup. The only thing I can mark it down for is the little Epiphone logo on the pick guard fell off one day without any provocation. Realistically a non issue but that's the only thing I can note to stop it being absolutely perfect.