Limited-Edition EJ-160E Acoustic-Electric Guitar

This modern limited-edition EJ-160E acoustic-electric is one of rock-n-roll’s most revered guitar designs with a solid spruce top and an Epiphone Stacked P-100 pickup.

The original "J-160E" was one of the first acoustic-electric guitars on the market when it was released in 1954. Over the decades, the "J-160E" has been embraced by a wide range of artists, both classic and contemporary, such as Lightnin’ Hopkins, Elvis Costello, Paul Weller and John Lennon. In fact, the "J-160" acoustic-electric was the only guitar to appear on every Beatles album from Please Please Me through Abbey Road. Now with the limited-edition EJ-160E acoustic-electric, the "House of Stathopoulo" brings this vintage and hard-to-find classic into the 21st century with a solid spruce top for a limited time.

Solid Spruce: The King of Tonewoods
Just like the original, this Epiphone limited-edition EJ-160E follows the contours of the industry-standard "Southern Jumbo" acoustic and features a solid spruce top with a select mahogany body. Solid spruce is the "top" of choice for premier acoustic guitars. The more you play your EJ-160E, the more open and expressive the tone—so play your EJ-160E a lot. The body top has 5-ply ivory/black binding while the select mahogany back has single-ply ivory binding. The pickguard is imitation tortoise with the '60s-era "E" metal logo. The EJ-160E’s bridge is made from rosewood and has the reverse belly design familiar to "J-160E" collectors and features a compensated bone saddle.

The select mahogany neck has a comfortable "1960s" SlimTaper D-profile and is glued to the body using a dovetail joint. The neck has a 24.75" scale with a rosewood fingerboard with vintage-style pearloid "Trapezoid" inlays just like the original models. The fingerboard has single-ply ivory color binding and features a 12" fingerboard radius, 20 medium frets and a bone nut along with the Epiphone classic Sloped Dovewing headstock.

Revolutionary Electric Sound
What made the original J-160E so renown was its unique pickup system, and to bring that sound back to life for the 21st century, this Epiphone Ltd. Ed. EJ-160E features an Epiphone Stacked P-100 humbucking pickup at the end of its fingerboard. The Epiphone Stacked P-100 pickup is seated discretely between the end of the guitar's fretboard and the soundhole. Master volume and tone controls feature Top Hat knobs with metal inserts and pointers—just like vintage models—and are located on the guitar's lower bout. And each volume and tone control uses full-size 500K potentiometers.

Epiphone Heavy-Duty Hardware
All hardware, like the Epiphone "Deluxe" machine heads with a pro 18:1 tuning ratio, the Epiphone heavy duty 1/4" output jack, and pre-installed strap buttons are made from solid nickel and the limited-edition EJ-160E is set up and tuned at the factory using Epiphone 12-53 nickel strings.

Case sold separately.