Description

Epiphone Uptown Kat ES Archtops 6-Strings Electric Guitar Overview:

The Next Generation of “Kat” Archtops Featuring ProBucker FB720 Mini Humbuckers
The new UpTown Kat ES is the next generation of Epiphones classic Kat archtop and features a true ES-style semi-hollowbody archtop with newly designed Epiphone ProBucker FB720 mini humbuckers, Graph Tech nut, ebony fingerboard, and Grover Rotomatic tuners. Available in Sapphire Blue Metallic, Ruby Red Metallic, Emerald Green Metallic, and Topaz Gold Metallic.

ProBucker humbucker Pickups
The classic “P.A.F” sound is closer than you think

Epiphone’s ProBucker humbucker has quietly become one of the most talked about pickups in the industry. It has fooled experts, vintage purists, and even luthiers who have worked with the best vintage examples from the late 50s and early 60s. Epiphone ProBucker humbuckers are the real deal–made with 18% Nickel Silver unit bases and covers, the same alloy used by Gibson at the Kalamazoo factory when the humbucker was first invented. The use of Nickel Silver reduces the occurrence of eddy currents due to low conductivity and provides a more transparent and crisp output. The size and shape of the bobbins also has a great impact on tonal response. And the bobbins used on ProBucker pickups duplicate the size and shape of the gold standard in the industry, Gibson humbuckers. Epiphone ProBucker pickups also feature sand cast Alnico II magnets, high quality 4 conductor lead wire, and are vacuum wax potted to eliminate microphonics.

Specifications:
Body

• Body Shape: Archtop
• Body Material: 5-ply Maple/Poplar
• Binding: Body: 5 ply black and white, Fingerboard: 1-ply white

Neck

• Material: Mahogany
• Profile: SlimTaper C
• Scale Length: 24.72″ / 628mm
• Fingerboard Material: Ebon
• Fingerboard Material: Ebony
• Fingerboard Radius: 12″
• Number Of Frets: 22
• Frets: Medium Jumbo
• Nut Material: Graph Tech
• Nut Width: 1.68″ / 42.672mm
• Inlays: Pearloid Block
• Joint: Glued in

Hardware

• Finish: Gold
• Tuner Plating: Gold
• Bridge: LockTone Tune-O-Matic
• Tailpiece: Trapeze
• Tuning Machines: Grover Rotomatic 18:1
• Control Knobs: Gold “Top Hat” knobs
• Pickup Covers: Gold

Electronics

• Neck Pickup: Epiphone Mini-ProBucker FB720
• Bridge Pickup: Epiphone Mini-ProBucker FB720
• Controls: Neck Volume, Neck Tone, Master Tone, Master Volume
• Pickup Selector: 3-way Epiphone toggle
• Output Jack: 1/4″ Heavy-Duty Epiphone

Miscellaneous

• Strings: .010, .013, .017, .026, .036, .046

Country of Origin: China