Rhapsody Music

Bring the radical, stage-commanding presence of the iconic 1984 Explorer to your hands with the Epiphone Explorer '80s EMG in Classic White. Originally introduced in the late 1950s, the angular Explorer shape truly found its calling decades later in the hands of heavy metal pioneers, and this striking model pays direct homage to that golden era of hard rock. Stripped of a pickguard for a sleek, aggressive aesthetic and finished in a brilliant gloss, this solid mahogany guitar is built from the ground up for pure power and speed. It features a fast, glued-in '60s SlimTaper mahogany neck and a 12-inch radius fingerboard loaded with 22 medium-jumbo frets, allowing for effortless string bending and lightning-fast fretwork across the entire register. At its core, the legendary active pickup pairing of a warm, smooth EMG 60 in the neck and a razor-sharp, high-output EMG 81 in the bridge delivers the crushing distortion, punchy mids, and singing sustain that defined the 1980s thrash scene. Rounded out with a premium Graph Tech nut and rock-solid LockTone Tune-O-Matic bridge and stop bar tailpiece, this unapologetic riff machine guarantees maximum resonance and unrelenting tuning stability, ensuring you sound just as sharp as you look.