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Limited Edition Wildkat Black Royale Electric Guitar
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A comfortable and vintage-style guitar with upgraded electronics and hardware.
Not Like Other Archtops
Epiphone is a leader in archtop design and has been since the 1930's . An early pioneer in archtops even before they were electrified, Epiphone was never afraid to do something out of the ordinary. With no notable changes in archtop design by anybody in decades, Epiphone took the archtop and practically married it to a solid body guitar. And with a sharp new look, the Wildkat Royale now takes its place among all-time great designs.
Epiphone Innovation
The Wildkat Royale' innovative design starts with a solid piece of warm, sustain-rich mahogany that is computer-routed to create an acoustic guitar-like body except with a œcenter block area like an ES-335. The body is then covered with a beautiful black pearl finish with silver sparkle binding and nickel hardware to create a semi-hollowbody masterpiece. The Wildkat Royale' mahogany body is matched with a hand-fitted, glued-in solid mahogany neck for maximum tone and sustain. It features a rosewood fingerboard and an authentic gold B70 licensed Bigsby vibrato for even more sonic versatility. The vintage voice of this ˜Kat comes from a pair of Epiphone "dog ear" P- 90 Classic pickups specifically designed by Epiphone.
Other appointments include the historic metal Epiphone name œbadge on the headstock as well as a unique control configuration of 1-bridge volume, 1-neck volume, 1-master tone and 1-master volume. These controls are powered by Epiphone' full-size 1 500K potentiometers and matched with Epiphone' superior all-metal toggle switch and heavy-duty output jack.
Epiphone Hardware
The Wildkat Royale also features premium 16:1 Grover machine heads for superior tuning stability. All of this great design comes together with fabulous vintage semi-hollow tone and great sustain plus, being slightly larger than a Les Paul and smaller than an ES-335 size, it's lightweight and really comfortable to play!
Features
- Mahogany body
- Maple top
- Mahogany set neck, Slim Taper œD Profile
- 24.75 scale
- 1.68 nut width
- Rosewood fingerboard with pearloid dot inlays
- 12 fingerboard radius
- P-90R Dog Ear Classics neck pickup
- P-90T Dog Ear Classics bridge pickup
- 1 Master Volume, 2 Pickup Volume, 1-Tone Controls
- Vintage-style Epiphone badge headstock
- 22 medium jumbo frets
- Locktone Tune-o-matic/StopBar bridge
- Bigsby B70 vibrato tailpiece
- Nickel hardware
- Silver sparkle binding
- Grover 16:1 machine heads
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- Free Standard Ground shipping (48 contiguous states, some overweight and Used/Vintage items excluded).
- Orders placed before 3 p.m. ET usually ship the same business day.
Every guitar or bass you purchase from Musician's Friend (electric or acoustic, New or Open Box) includes two years of protection from manufacturer defects.
Our Gear Advisers are available to guide you through your entire shopping experience. Call or Chat for expert advice and to hear the latest deals.