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I bought an Epiphone Swingster. I had been looking at hollow bodies for several months. This came up on sale for $300 off with six months no interest, couldn't resist. I'm trying my hand at jazz improvising. Not very effective yet, lots of mistakes in here. The chords are from Gershwin's I Got Rhythm.I'm much better at rhythm than lead. The bass is also fairly new. I got it a few months ago when I sold a Stratocaster.

That looks like fun! Can you shed some light on pups and playability?

BTW - I wholeheartedly support self gifting at any time of the year, but especially Christmas.

Sounds and looks good to me, HNGD and thanks for sharing the tune!

Great looking guitar and the recording is great as well so HNGD to you I know you'll enjoy it.

I don't play a lot of slide but this guitar seems built for it.

Swinging with the Swingster

pdcorlis wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 12:18 pm That looks like fun! Can you shed some light on pups and playability?

Pickups are called Swingbuckers. As far as I know they are only available with this guitar. They are standard humbuckers but the coils are wired in parallel like a Gretsch. If you pull up the tone pot it switches to serial like a normal humbucker. It sounds and plays very Gretsch like. The pickups get quite dark and full with some gain., especially in serial mode. The tone is exactly what I was hoping for. I used to have a Korean Gretsch 5120. It was a while ago but this guitar seems to have the same tone plus more options.

As for playability I like it a lot. It has a Gibson scale, 20 frets, 14” radius neck with a fairly slim D profile. I really like the Chet Atkins wire Bigsby arm. The Bigsby is one of the few I’ve played that stays in tune. I haven’t weighed it but it is very light. It is comfortable sitting or standing. My only quibble is tuning is an iterative process which is to be expected with any type of tremolo bridge. Once turned, it stays in tune.