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Epiphone Emperor Swingster Forest Green

4.8 out of 5 stars from 9 customer ratings

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
  • Available since December 2020
  • Item number 502013
  • Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
  • Hollowbody Guitar Yes
  • Semi Hollowbody Guitar No
  • Colour Green
  • Body Maple
  • Top Maple
  • Neck Mahogany
  • Fretboard Indian Laurel
  • Frets 22
  • Scale 628 mm
  • Pickups HH
  • Tremolo Yes
  • Including Case No
  • Incl. Bag No
£649
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My first hollow body electric guitar
NoraPatches 19.03.2023
UPDATE after owning it for 1+ year - I eventually settled with Thomastik JS111 flat wounds and had fully tamed the Emperor, I'd never ever ever sell this guitar!
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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.
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Vielseitiges Sound Monster
Musician2017 24.09.2025
Meine Gretsch mit Black Top Filter’Tron Humbuckern mochte ich nicht mehr, … halt zu wenig Jazz möglich, und meine Ibanez Hollowbody hat kein Tremolo, … 🤷‍♂️.
Auf gut Glück habe ich deshalb die Epiphone Emperor gekauft - und wurde nicht enttäuscht.
Versand und Verarbeitung einwandfrei.
Sound mit allen Möglichkeiten (parallel, seriell) lässt keine Wünsche offen. Mit ein wenig EQ kann die Gitarre ausser Jazz:, rocken, bluesen und funcken. (Metall hab ich nicht gecheckt 🤷‍♂️).
Mein Highlight ist der Neck-Pickup im Humbucker Mode, … für mein Ohr genau so geil wie x-fach teurere Gibson oder Ibanez Hollowbody Modelle.
Und das Bigsby Tremolo ist mit diesem speziellen Hebel viel angenehmer als die Standard Teile.
Einzige Kritik: Die Bindings in Glitzer-Gold sind für mein Auge ECHT drüber!! Etwas einfarbiges wäre wertiger.
Insgesamt aber, besonders im Hinblick auf Preis-/Leistung: KAUFEN!!!
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Jäbä1960 21.10.2025
Hintansa väärti. Pitkä sustain. Voi soitella ilman vahvistintakin. Työn jälki siistiä. Äänen väri hiukan nenän kautta tuleva. Käy ainakin jazziin.
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