Epiphone Ultra 339 Semi Acoustic, Natural - Nearly New

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The Birth of a Legend

First introduced in the late '50s at Epiphones legendary Kalamazoo factory, the ES series became an instant rock classic, bringing the look and feel of an archtop to a generation of players who had grown up playing solid body guitars like the Les Paul. The ES-335, the first in the ES series, was an instant success. But for many players who were used to smaller solid body guitars, the ES-335 felt too bulky to play on stage. The new Epiphone Ultra-339 is the perfect remedy, featuring smaller body dimensions while still retaining the bell-like tone the ES series is famous for. And best of all, the Ultra-339 is loaded with Ultra technology!

Great Tonewoods

While the Ultra-339 is packed with cutting edge technology, it still maintains the same basic specifications that made ES-style guitars the choice of two generations of artists from Chuck Berry to B.B. King to Alex Lifeson. The Ultra-339 features a laminated maple body with a solid center block, classic f holes, and a comfortable 24.75" scale SlimTaper™ "D" profile mahogany neck, which is glued-in with a mortise and tenon neck joint. The 12" radius rosewood fingerboard has 22 medium jumbo frets just like vintage ES-style archtops, a 1.68" nut and mother-of-pearl dot inlays. This Ultra-339 comes in a Cherry finish.

Two Great Pickup Systems in One Guitar

At the heart of the new Ultra-339 are two pickup systems. The classic pickup system features Epiphone's new ProBucker™ humbucker pickups a ProBucker-2™ in the neck position and a ProBucker-3™ in the bridge position. Both are patterned after Gibson's famous BurstBuckers™ and are wound to the same specs as the Kalamazoo factory's legendary PAF pickups.

Epiphone's ProBuckers™ feature authentic 18 nickel silver base and cover, Elektrisola wire, accurate bobbins, slugs and screws and sand casted Alnico-II magnets to give you that classic "Patent Applied For" airy tone that defines rock and roll.

The second pickup system features ShadowTM Germany's patented NanoMag™ pickup embedded discretely at the end of the fingerboard. Featuring three samarium cobalt magnets, an air coil, and active electronics, this low-impedance pickup captures subtle body acoustics and string harmonics. Together, you get powerful humbucker-driven rock crunch as well as shimmering acoustic-like tones and everything in-between.

One-Of-A-Kind Electronics Built-in

Built discretely into the bridge pickup mounting ring is a full-function, chromatic tuner. Just push the ON/OFF button and sound is immediately muted when the tuner is activated. Eleven color-coded LED's identify the note and whether it's sharp, flat or in-tune. Also, to allow quick and seamless changes between each pickup system, the Ultra-339's NanoMag™ Volume control now doubles as an A/B switch. Just push it in and quickly toggle between ProBuckers™, NanoMag™ or both pickup systems with no delay and no "pop." Two additional LED's on the pickup mounting ring provide a visual indicator of which pickup system is active (Red=NanoMag; Blue-Magnetic or Red/Blue=Both).

Hook-Up Directly To Your Computer

The Ultra-339 features three different outputs. By using the standard 1/4" MONO output, both the ProBuckers™ and NanoMag™ are mixed into one signal. Plug in an additional 1/4" cable into the STEREO output, and the ProBuckers™ are routed through one cable and the NanaMag™ the other. In this way, you can send the ProBuckersTM to your favorite guitar amp and the NanoMag™ to a PA or an acoustic guitar amp. Using the A/B switch, you can now change "on-the-fly" between the two outputs.

Features/Specifications:

Body & Bridge:

• Body: Reduced size Laminated Maple body with solid center block
• Bridge: LockTone™ Tune-o-matic/Stopbar

Neck:

• Neck: Mahogany
• Neck Shape: SlimTaper™ D profile
• Neck Joint: Glued-in Mortise and Tenon
• Truss Rod: Adjustable
• Nut Width: 1.68"
• Scale Length: 24.75
• Fingerboard: Rosewood
• Fingerboard Radius: 12"
• Frets: 22 medium-jumbo
• Binding: fingerboard (1-ply cream) Body (1-ply cream)

Pickups & Hardware:

• Neck Pickup: Epiphone ProBucker-2™
• Bridge Pickup: Epiphone ProBucker-3™
• Fingerboard Pickup: Shadow™ NanoMag™ Humbucker low-impedance pickup
• Front Controls:
• 3-way pickup selector
• neck volume
• bridge pickup
• bridge volume
• NanoMag™ pickup volume with push-push A/B switch
• Master tone
• A/B LED indicators
• Back Controls: NanoMag™Gain, NanoMag™ Treble EQ, NanoMag™ Bass EQ
• Machine Heads: Wilkinson™ Vintage with Tombstone buttons; 14:1 Ratio
• Chromatic Tuner: On/off switch, A-G LED note indicators, #LED indicator, high pitch, low pitch, in-tune LED indicators
• Outputs: ¼" mono, ¼" stereo, USB (computer supplies power to Ultra III when connected
• Power: 9-volt battery (except when connected to computer USB)
• Hardware: Nickel

Includes:

• Native Instruments™ GuitarRig™ software (download from Epiphone.com)
• 3 meter USB cable
• 9-volt battery
• User's Manual
• Bumper Sticker
• Poster
• Trussrod Wrench
• 10' economy ¼" cord

Please note, the original boxing is scuffed and the seals are broken, otherwise the instrument itself looks and plays as new. It was returned unwanted by a customer under our 14 day money back guarantee.

This is a great opportunity to buy a fully functioning, nearly new product at a discounted price, supplied with a two year warranty.