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Epiphone Wildkat with Bigsby (Antique Natural)

Item ID: ETBKAN

Semi-hollowbody Electric Guitar with Mahogany Body, Maple Top and Neck, Rosewood Fingerboard, and Two Single-coil Pickups - Antique Natural

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Weight: 8lbs 6oz
Epiphone Wildkat with Bigsby (Antique Natural)

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A Semi-hollow with Attitude

The Wildkat may not wear its snarl on its sleeve like its brother the Flame Kat, but one listen and you'll hear the family resemblance immediately. The Wildkat boasts a semi-hollowbody that's big enough for that classic stinging tone but small enough to dance with. The vibrato bar on this baby isn't just an accessory - it's an essential! The sound? It can purr one minute, then turn mean and nasty on a whim, courtesy of two Alnico V P-90s. Other features include vintage Epiphone logo, vintage chrome VibraTone tailpiece, and more!

Epiphone Wildkat Features at a Glance:
  • Color: Antique Natural
  • Body wood: Mahogany
  • Top wood: Flame Maple
  • Neck wood: Maple
  • Neck profile: Set, 1-11/16" nut
  • Fingerboard: Rosewood
  • Position markers: Dot inlay
  • Scale length: 24 3/4"
  • Number of frets: 22
  • Pickups: 2 Alnico V P-90's
  • Controls: 3 volume, 1 tone
  • Pickup switching: 3-way selector
  • Hardware: Chrome
  • Machine heads: Grover tuners
  • Bridge/tailpiece: Bigsby tremolo

Specification Detail
Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
Body Material Mahogany
Top Material Flame Maple
Color Antique Natural
Neck Material Maple, Set
Scale Length 24.75"
Fingerboard Material Rosewood
Fingerboard Inlay Dot
Number of Frets 22
Nut Width 1.68"
Bridge/Tailpiece Bigsby tremolo
Tuners Grover Tuners
Number of Pickups 2
Neck Pickup AlNiCo V P-90 Single-Coil
Middle Pickup No Middle Pickup
Bridge Pickup AlNiCo V P-90 Single-Coil
Controls 3 x Volume, 1 x Tone, 3-way switch
Case Included No Case Included
Manufacturer Part Number ETBKANCB1

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Reviews

based on 13 reviews

A Friggin' Bargain!

by Samuel Claiborne from New York State
May 16, 2013
Music Background: Engineer, Sound Designer, Composer, Performer.
If someone handed you this guitar with a Gibson or Gretsch logo on it, you'd be willing to pay $1200.00 for it - no kidding! Out of the box, action's a tiny bit high, but plays fine. Quality is top-no... read more [+]tch. Epiphone is really amazing me a set neck thin-line that could go from Foo Fighters to Stray Cats to Pat martino - just amazing. The pups are a little thicker than classic p-90s - almost half way between single coil and humbucker sound. I cranked it on my Fender Twin and lord have mercy it rocked! Sang! The controls: separate volume for each pup, + master volume + master tone give you lots of tonal variety. The only other guitar with a similar setup (though not master volume) that I've played is a Godin Radiator, and with both Axes, I find this a very versatile set of controls.

I will probably replace the nut with bone or tusq, get a pro set up, and if nut sauce doesn't do it, I may even get a roller bridge - because it's not rock solid in terms of tuning stability - but a Bigsby is not a dive bomber, after all.

For the money, this thing is incredible. Unlike so many cheap guitars, the electronics on this sound great. The only things you might want to change are those I mentioned above.

I like the smallish body size, and the almost Les Paul thickness.

It is a **** sexy guitar to look at too. close [-]

beautiful epiphone guitar

by william sloane from west bloomfield, MI
May 15, 2013
Music Background: I played in bars all through college at 70 years old I still play every day for 2 hours.
This guitar has a great feel...It looks good and its easy to play...The attention to detail is the same as my 20 year old epiphone/gibson. The tone is deep and mellow

bigbys

by Quimars from Richmond Va
March 25, 2013
Music Background: pro musician
the sound is great its what i been searchn for

Epiphone wildkat

by Aubrey from French Lick, Indiana
March 7, 2013
Music Background: Hobbyist
great guitar for price

Amazed at this price point

by Michael Sole from United States
March 4, 2013
Music Background: Oh you know, I can play the white keys real good
I bought this guitar cause I thought it was really nice looking. Plus I wanted a semi-hollow body with this style and I am a sucker for Bigsby's.

I also read online others that replaced... read more [+] the tuners and pickups. When I got it, I was truly blown away by how it looked. I was disappointed with how it stayed in tune and it's tone.

I spoke with sweetwater tech support and they suggested some Nut Sauce. Not sure if that really did anything but I gave the strings a REAL good stretching in and now, I have no tuning problems at all. Those are Grover tuners so they are pretty good.

As for the tone, I really how to dial up my rig much different to get the right sound out of it but I have a pretty good rock-a-billy tone now (although my chicken picking has much to be desired).

The guitar was always very playable, the notes would fret nice and it feels comfortable to strum and pick. I find raking very easy on this ax.

I guess it's true, you can't believe everything you read on the internet. This guitar is put together right and of course, sweetwater rocked at sales and service. I feel like I got an amazing deal (especially if you look at something like an ES-335). close [-]
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