Epiphone - EDS-1275 Doubleneck Vintage Cherry

With the EDS-1275 Doubleneck Vintage Cherry, Epiphone has produced a double-neck electric guitar, with six strings on one side and twelve on the other, housed within a single body. Right-handed guitarists who alternate between melodic arpeggios and electric rhythm playing can thus keep both sounds within easy reach, without having to change instruments between songs.

The solid mahogany body, in the EDS-1275 style with its bevelled edges and double cutaway, features a gloss finish in Vintage Cherry, with no binding on the top, creating a clean silhouette reminiscent of the golden age of 1960s rock.

The two glued-in mahogany necks share the same scale length of 628.65 mm (24.75 inches) and the same SlimTaper 60s C profile, offering a solid feel under the palm, with a dual-action truss rod to adjust the neck curvature as the seasons change. A rosewood fingerboard with a radius of 304.8 mm (12 inches) features twenty medium-jumbo frets and split-parallelogram inlays; the two fingerboards are joined by single-layer binding, whilst a Graph Tech nut ensures stable tuning.

The two Kalamazoo-style headstocks, adorned with mother-of-pearl inlaid logos, are fitted with Epiphone Deluxe tuning machines that keep the instrument’s eighteen strings in tune.

Four ProBucker pickups – two ProBucker 2s at the neck and two ProBucker 3s at the bridge – cover both necks, with nickel covers reserved for the twelve-string neck and bare windings on the six-string side. A three-position selector switch, with independent neck selection, allows you to play one neck alone or both together, whilst each neck retains its own independent volume and tone controls, operated by two CTS volume and two CTS tone potentiometers beneath Black Speed knobs. The passive electronics preserve the raw character of the wood, with no active circuitry between the player’s hands and the amplifier.

Each neck is paired with its own LockTone Tune-O-Matic bridge and Claw tailpiece, fitted with a set of ready-to-play steel strings, beneath nickel-plated hardware that complements the finish. Part of the ‘Inspired by Gibson’ series, this Epiphone comes with a branded hard case.