Epiphone ES-339 Pro (Natural) Archtop Electric Guitar
The Epiphone ES-339 Pro (Natural) is a 6-string semi-hollow Electric Guitar with narrower, more manoeuvrable body contours designed to appeal to players of solid-body guitars. The Epiphones ES-339 Pro is based on the legendary Kalamazoo models and is intended as a faithful reconstruction with a laminated Maple body and a large centre block to reduce feedback. High-quality LockTone hardware and Epiphone Deluxe tuners help keep you in tune and the ES-339 Pro also comes equipped with the popular Alnico Classic Pro humbuckers for warm and juicy PAF sounds. The pick-ups also come with coil splitting push/pull potentiometers for additional single-coil sounds.
In the late 1950s, the newly introduced Epiphone ES-335 developed into one of the most popular guitar models and became a top-seller practically overnight. In addition to the already available solid-body guitars, the new semi-hollow models offered an unusual bell-like sound and quickly found itself in the hands of famous stars such as John Lee Hooker, Gary Moore and B.B. King.
The main features of the Epiphone ES-339 Pro (Natural) include:
6-String Archtop Electric Guitar
Body: Laminated Maple
Neck: Mahogany
Fingerboard: Pau Ferro
Tuners: Epiphone Deluxe 18:1
Pick-Ups: Epiphone Alnico Classic Pro (Neck) & Alnico Classic Pro Plus (Bridge)
What a great sounding guitar!! Suits lots of sounds, from clean, to jazz, blues, rock.... Its very confortable, its light weight and beautiful too. Ive only play it at home with a small combo but sounds really beautiful. And the shippment was also great as always at musicstore
I've read about 100 reviews on this very guitar before purchasing. And after finally purchasing it, I can recommend this guitar. It is amazing for the price:
Mine had no problems with finish: no "4-year old painted f-holes", no sharp fret edges, no buzzing after minor adjustments, beautiful body with grain and neck with "flamy like" fret board. Pickups are not great but they're really good. I got the ooutput better with lowering the strings for better action. Coil splitting is an addition to some, but I don't really like it. Maybe because I don't need it.
Action and the strings that came with it were awful, but I tend to switch and adjust them in any guitar. String height is easily adjusted on the bridge-end, also truss rod adjustment works as it should.
The "E" -sign fell of the plate immediately after unpacking, but I prefer it this way. So this is plus too!
For the price it is very nice looking guitar which should have hard case, so I recommend to get that too.
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I couldn't lower the action as mush as I wanted so I suppose a fret job is required but nevertheless it's a great guitar, it looks fabulous and it sounds great. Perfect to play Jazz, Blues, Rock and hard rock (perfect to play AC/DC!). Not too mentioned the price is great. I had a Gibson LP before but I prefer this one. Yes, I love it.
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