Epiphone - Broadway Wine Red LH

The mirror is finally turned on the Epiphone Broadway Wine Red LH, a left-handed jazz archtop where the cutaway provides easy access to the higher registers and where the fully hollow body responds to the slightest touch of the strings, whether amplified or not.

The glossy Wine Red finish adorns a silhouette first introduced in 1931, when Epiphone launched its Masterbilt range in New York, before joining the Gibson family in 1957. This historical continuity carries over to the left-handed version without losing any of its character.

The selected spruce top and laminated maple body, edged with 6-ply binding, define this Broadway silhouette with a 24.75-inch scale length. The three-piece maple neck, with a SlimTaper 60s C profile, leads to a rosewood fingerboard with a 12-inch radius, where 20 medium-jumbo frets and mother-of-pearl block and abalone triangle inlays mark each fret. The Graph Tech nut measures 42.93 mm.

Two Alnico Classic PRO pickups, configured in an HH pattern beneath gold-coloured covers, send the rich, woody tone to a 6.35 mm jack, controlled by two volume controls, two CTS tone controls and a 3-position selector switch. The floating rosewood bridge and gold-coloured Frequensator tailpiece stabilise the tuning beneath the black laminated pickguard featuring the Epiphone ‘E’ logo.

The Grover Rotomatic tuners, the Clipped Dovewing headstock edged with 5-ply binding, its Tree of Life inlay and mother-of-pearl Epiphone logo round off the package with gold-plated hardware, including a Crescent Bullet truss rod cover, black Top Hat knobs with silver inserts, 6 strings and a premium gig bag.