Description

The Epiphone Dave Rude Flying V Alpine White was designed by Tesla legend Dave Rude to have versatility in tone and a striking white and red motif. Rude says, “It’s beyond an honor for me to have a signature Epiphone guitar. I’ve been playing Epiphone my whole life. To me, the aesthetics, the presentation, playing it live, give the audience something memorable, and different than anyone else.” The guitar features the classic Flying V shape in an Alpine White gloss finish with a red Pearloid pickguard, ProBucker™ humbuckers with coil-splitting, Grover® Rotomatic® tuners, a Graph Tech® nut, and an EpiLite™ case. Available for a limited time.

PROBUCKER™ HUMBUCKER PICKUPS
Epiphone’s ProBucker™ humbucker has quietly become one of the most talked about pickups in the industry. It has fooled experts, vintage purists, and even luthiers who have worked with the best vintage examples from the late 50s and early 60s. Epiphone ProBucker™ humbuckers are the real deal–made with 18% Nickel Silver unit bases and covers, the same alloy used by Gibson at the Kalamazoo factory when the humbucker was first invented. The use of Nickel Silver reduces the occurrence of eddy currents due to low conductivity and provides a more transparent and crisp output. The size and shape of the bobbins also has a great impact on tonal response. And the bobbins used on ProBucker™ pickups duplicate the size and shape of the gold standard in the industry, Gibson humbuckers. Epiphone ProBucker™ pickups also feature sand cast Alnico II magnets, high quality 4 conductor lead wire, and are vacuum wax potted to eliminate microphonics.

DAVE RUDE
Dave Rude is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and performer. He is best known as one of the guitarists in the hard rock band Tesla. In 2006 he was discovered by Tesla guitarist Frank Hannon, who contacted him via Myspace. He was impressed by Rude’s music and offered him a job as a guitarist for his solo side-project, The Frank Hannon Band. He began playing with Tesla during the “Electric Summer Jam” tour in 2006. Rude started playing guitar when he was 9 and his main musical influences included Guns N’ Roses, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Aerosmith, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

ABOUT EPIPHONE:
Epiphone is one of American’s oldest and most revered instrument makers. Since 1873, Epiphone has made instruments for every style of popular music and celebrated its 140th anniversary in 2013. The story of Epiphone begins in the mountains of Greece and threads its way to Turkey, across the Atlantic to the immigrant gateway of Ellis Island, and into the nightclubs, recording studios, and coast-to-coast radio broadcasts of Manhattan in the 1920s and 30s. www.epiphone.com