1991 Epiphone Emperor II

I haven't photographed my Emperor, so this picture is from the Epiphone Web site. Mine has a solid spruce (pressed, not carved) top, rather than the laminated maple top of the current instrument, as shown above. This is just a cheap, acoustic-electric archtop that I bought for sitting around the porch on a summer evening. The body is the same size as a Gibson ES-175 or L-4, but those models have sharp cutaways.

Features: pressed, solid spruce top; laminated maple back and sides with moderate flame; laminated maple neck and headstock; ebony bridge and headstock veneer; rosewood fretboard; multi-layer body, neck and headstock binding; gold-plated metal parts. Unlike the guitar pictured, mine has no pickguard.

Someday I'll either have an archtop made for me or I'll find an old Gibson L-5 to replace this.

Copyright © 1999 Gary DeWitt

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