Epiphone WildKat Guitar Limited Edition

Epiphone Limited Edition WildKat Guitar Review :: Electric Guitars

semi-hollow body perfect for rock, blues and country.

Epiphone’s made the Wildkat even wilder with this Limited Edition version WidlKat guitar in gorgeous Sunrise Orange. With its vintage chrome P-90 pickups and Bigsby vibrato, this Epiphone original semi-hollow body is perfect for rock, blues and country. And, the highly Flamed Maple top sure looks good too! The Epiphone WildKat electric guitar – this wild guitar has a lot to catch the fancy of all kinds of players: chrome Vibratone tailpiece for vintage detail, flamed maple top for gorgeous looks, and 2 Alnico V P-90s for hot-rodded tone. Maple neck, rosewood fretboard, mahogany sides and back, and body and neck binding. Limited lifetime warranty.

Sound of Epiphone WildKat Limited Edition Electric Guitar

• the overall tone is rich, warm, and smooth, clean tone;
• you get great highs, lows and mids with it;
• a beautiful, airy, clear, tone with lots of high end extension and large component of nice accoustic character;
• dirty bottomend that growls but also able to play clean beautiful jazz parts and belt out the blues like a crying baby;
• the sound is huge and can be slightly boomy on the low end if playing with distortion;
• full but hot sound on the bridge that dosen’t get shrill.

Pros of Epiphone WildKat Limited Edition Electric Guitar

• a great guitar for the price;
• jazz box;
• the P-90’s work great for blues, jazz, country, rock-a-billy, jazz, swing, and even metal, punk;
• cool sound, great finish, easy action adjustment and high-end features for low-end bucks;
• awesome playability and the clean tone is wonderful;
• it can accurately produce thousands of tones;
• thin neck but with a thick feeling to it;
• you can reach all the frets;
• the body is surprisingly thin for a hollow body;
• very good for beginner students;
• the body materials and semi-hollow construction really add to the tone;
• stays in tune very well.

Cons of Epiphone WildKat Limited Edition Electric Guitar

• you can’t get too rough with the Bigsby but for subtle effect it works reasonable well;
• the strings it comes with break because of sharp tune-o-matic saddles and the saddles need springs to hold the screws in;
• knobs and pickups selector covers are cheap.

Suggestions for this Epiphone Guitar

• adjust the action slightly if you get fret buzz;
• it will go out of tune if you use the tremelo too much;
• use big, flatwound strings;
• TonePros locking bridge helps with tuning stability;
• you’d might as well consider Ibanez Artcore, Gretsch Tennessee Rose, Gretsch Nashville;
• change the saddles for Graph Techs.

Amps & Effects used by users – Roland Micro cube, Fender 2×12 Deville all-tube amp, Marshall