Epiphone Emperor Swingster, Delta Blue Metallic Overview
The Emperor Swingster is a hollow body guitar that’s great for playing various genres of music, whether it’s rockabilly, jazz, blues, early rock ‘n’ roll, country, and more… It has a layered maple body which delivers more acoustic-like qualities as well as more definition, and a mahogany SlimTaper neck making it more comfortable to play and some more mid-range warmth. It’s topped with a 22-fret Indian laurel fretboard for extra resonance. It also has a LockTone Tune-O-Matic bridge on a pinned wooden base for increased tuning stability, and a licensed Bigsby vibrato tailpiece with a wire handle, great for getting those subtle, slow bends with little force.
For pickups, it has two medium-output Epiphone Swingbuckers each with their own volume and tone controls and a 3-way toggle switch, providing balanced lows, thick mids and singing highs, and are great for playing a range of styles of music.
To complete the Emperor Swingster are Grover rotomatic tuners, block inlays, nickel hardware, a silver pickguard with the Epiphone ‘E’ logo, black ‘top hat’ knobs with metal inserts to complement the finish, a striking ‘Tree of Life’ inlay on the headstock, 7-ply top and back binding to accentuate the cool Delta Blue Metallic finish.
Overview by Epiphone
The Epiphone Emperor Swingster™ is a way-cool guitar that excels in a wide range of genres, including jazz, blues, rockabilly, country and rock. This hollowbody has a 5-ply layered maple body, mahogany neck with a comfortable and fast-playing SlimTaper™ profile, Indian laurel fretboard with block inlays, mother of pearl Epiphone and Tree of Life inlays on the large Clipped Dove Wing headstock, Grover® Rotomatic® tuning machines, and two Epiphone SwingBucker™ pickups, each with a dedicated volume and tone control. Push/pull switches are built into each volume control to provide series/parallel switching for the pickups, and along with the 3-way toggle pickup selector switch, give you a broad selection of tonal options. The LockTone™ Tune-O-Matic™ bridge is mounted on a pinned wooden base so it won’t move out of place when you use the licensed Bigsby® vibrato with wire handle. Available in Forest Green Metallic with gold hardware, or Black Aged Gloss and Delta Blue Metallic finishes with nickel hardware.
