Product Demo: Jamming on an Epiphone Swingster Royale
I dropped in to Prom Music, a local Sudbury, Ontario music store recently to pick up a new nut for my Strat. I saw this Epiphone Emperor Swingster Royale, also for sale through Amazon.ca and had to try it out. I plugged into a Yamaha THR 10 guitar amp, and shot this short video using my iPhone 4s, and by making something up on the spot.
Epiphone has been making better and better guitars these days. I'm very impressed with them.
Product Info From Epiphone:
Swing Like a Pro with the NEW Epiphone Swingster Royale!
The Emperor Swingster Royale is a dazzling version of our go-to rockabilly, jazz and rock hollowbody classic. It features gold Epiphone SwingBucker™ pickups with classic Alnico-V magnets, gold Grover® machine heads, gold LockTone™ Tune-o-matic bridge, gold strap button, and best of all, a gold 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 NEW Emperor Swingster Royale. 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!
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 Royale today.
Product Features:
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Pearl white finish with gold sparkle binding
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Swingbucker™ pickups with parallel series wiring
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Gold hardware
Specifications
| Body | maple with maple outer veneer |
| Top | Select Spruce |
| Neck | Hard maple |
| Scale | 24.75” |
| Headstock | Epiphone ‘Clipped Ear’ |
| Neck Profile | 14” |
| Fretboard | rosewood with 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” Tuno-O-Matic Bridge with rosewood base and gold saddles |
| Tailpiece | Bigsby® B30 |
| Hardware | Gold |
| Tuners | Gold Grover® 14:1 ratio |
| Binding | Gold Sparkle on neck and body |
| Color | Pearl White |
| Typical Weight (+/- 5%) | 7.7 lbs |
Mitch Ross
Guitar player | Multi-Instrumentalist | Songwriter | Producer
