Epiphone Futura: 7 High Performance Classics!
Fitted with ProBucker Ignite humbucking pickups
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The Epiphone Futura Series has taken seven classic guitar shapes and updated them with modern specifications and Chromashift finishes that shift colour.
Contents: Epiphone Futura
Chromashift
Epiphone’s Futura Series takes seven of the most legendary guitar silhouettes and gives them a high-voltage, modern makeover. Defined by their mesmerizing Chromashift finishes, these instruments change colour depending on your angle and the light.
These finishes include Quicksilver Shift, Solaris Shift, Midnight Ember Shift, Twilight Shift, Firestorm Shift, Dragonfly Shift, and Nitro Shift.
Modern Specifications
Each model is offered in one of two finishes and features a set of the new high-output passive ProBucker Ignite humbuckers. These include push/pull functionality for coil splitting and phasing. Other key features common across all the models include an ebony fretboard with a 10″–14″ compound radius, and a set of stainless steel medium jumbo frets.
Nickel Hardware
These guitars all look pretty hot with their nickel hardware and should also play just as smoothly as the flip-flop finishes, thanks to these modern necks and fretwork.
I also appreciate that they all come with Locking Grover Rotomatic tuners for rock-solid tuning stability and Posi-Lok strap buttons to keep them safe on your guitar strap. These little upgrades all add up to make these models well worth checking out.
Seven Classics
The seven models include the Futura Les Paul Custom, Futura SG Custom, Futura Explorer Custom, Futura Flying V Custom, Futura RD Custom, Futura ES-355, and the Futura Firebird Custom. It is good to see the RD as an affordable Epiphone release, as it often gets left out of these big launches, plus it is the only one with a 25.5″ scale length; the others are all the typical Gibson 24.75″.
Verdict
If you want classic guitar aesthetics, but also love a bit of bling, then these models could be just what you need. With stainless steel frets, compound-radius ebony fretboards, and high-output pickups, they lend themselves to modern music styles, but I think you could get a lot of mileage from these models.
My personal favourites are the Flying V in Quicksilver and those RD models with the longer scale length, perfect for heavy riffing.
Price and Availability
The new Epiphone Futura Series is available now at Thomann, priced at $968/£877/€999 each. They all come with a premium Epiphone gig bag included.
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