Epiphone Professional

The Professional outfit was sold as a guitar and amplifier package. All controls for operating the amp are built into the guitar and require the matching amp to be fully functional. The Professional is usable with other amps via the 1/4" jack on the top of the guitar. Utilizing the matching amp requires a special cable plugged into the guitar's multi-pin jack. As well as volume and tone, there are tremolo and reverb controls. Tonal changes are actuated by five Tonexpressor switches. The amplifier itself is 15w or 35w, and can not be used independently. It was available with Tremtone Vibrola or with Frequensator Tailpiece.

 

• 1962-1967
• Model EA7P/EA8P

Body:

• Double round cutaways
• Fully hollow thinbody

Neck:

• One-piece mahogany neck
• Rosewood fingerboard with pearl parallelogram inlays
• Pearl logo and pearl oval inlay on headstock
• 24 3/4" scale
• 1 11/16" nut width

Binding:

• Single-ply body and neck

Electronics:

• Low-impedance mini-humbucking pickup in the neck position
• Pickup output of 1.60k
• All amp controls on the guitar's pickguard

Controls:

• 1 volume
• 1 tone
• Rotary tremolo knob
• Rotary frequency knob
• Rotary depth knob
• On/off reverb switch
• On/off tremolo switch
• 5 two-way 'Tonexpressor' switches

Hardware:

• Nickel hardware
• Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons
• Five-layer symmetrical pickguard with Epiphone "E" logo
• Frequensator tailpiece
• ABR-1 Tune-o-matic bridge
• Black plastic bell-shaped knobs with metal tops

Colors:

• Royal tan
• Red

Amplifier:

• 15 Watts (EA-7P)
• 35 Watts (EA-8P)
• 12" speaker (EA-7P)
• 15" speaker (EA-8P)
• Single channel
• Tremolo & reverb
• 7 tubes
• Top-mounted aluminum chassis
• Standby, polarity, on-off switches
• Secondary input
• Two panel lights (standby & on)
• Removable fuse
• Monitor Jack
• Extension speaker jack