Epiphone Broadway Vintage Sunburst Original

Essential Information About the Epiphone Broadway Vintage Sunburst Guitar

• Iconic hollowbody jazz guitar: a large-format archtop designed for clean playing, swing, and rich chords.


• Two Alnico Classic PRO humbuckers: warmth, roundness, and definition, with true versatility from jazz to roots rock.


• Gold hardware and Frequensator tailpiece: high-end vintage look and dynamic response typical of archtops.


• Modern comfort: glued neck with SlimTaper 60s C profile, 12" radius fingerboard for fast and precise playability.

An archtop with a strong heritage, updated for today

Considered for decades as an Epiphone benchmark in the hollowbody jazz guitar world, the Broadway returns here in a refined and elegant version. With Gloss finishes, refined details (mother-of-pearl and pearl inlays, headstock markers), and gold hardware, it retains the spirit of great hollowbodies while integrating modern components, notably Alnico Classic PRO pickups and premium tuners.

For which guitarists and styles?

The Broadway is especially aimed at intermediate to advanced guitarists seeking a true characterful hollowbody, but it remains accessible if you are starting jazz with a strong demand for comfort and setup. It excels in jazz (swing, bebop, chord melody), but its warm and full register also suits blues, roots rock, and vintage tones in general, particularly for fingerstyle or pick playing with nuanced attack.

Sound

With its hollowbody construction and selected spruce top, the Broadway offers a more open attack and beautiful acoustic resonance, ideal for full chords and singing melodic lines. The laminated maple back and sides provide sustain, clarity, and a well-controlled low end, useful for maintaining definition in ensemble playing. The two Alnico Classic PRO humbuckers deliver a palette ranging from a warm bass at the neck to a sharper treble at the bridge, with simple and effective wiring: 2 volumes, 2 tones, and a 3-position selector switch for quickly switching from a muted comping sound to a more present lead tone.

Technical specifications

Body shape	Broadway	Nut width	1.692" / 43 mm
Body material	laminated maple	Inlays	pearl block and mother-of-pearl triangle
Top	selected spruce	Finish	gold
Back	laminated maple	Bridge	adjustable floating Pau Ferro
Sides	laminated maple	Tailpiece	Frequensator trapeze tailpiece
Binding	neck, body, and fingerboard	Tuners	Wilkinson
Body finish	Gloss	Pickguard	multi-ply tortoise shell imitation with aluminum "E"
Profile	SlimTaper 60s C	Truss rod	adjustable
Neck/body joint	glued	Truss rod cover	2-ply Crescent Bullet with "E" logo
Scale length	25.5" / 647.7 mm	Control knobs	black Top Hat with silver inserts
Fingerboard	Indian laurel	Pickup selector knob	black
Radius	12" / 304.8 mm	Strap buttons	2
Number of frets	20	Pickup rings	black
Fret size	medium jumbo	Pickup covers	gold
Nut	GraphTech