I've had this for three years and I still love to play it. I gave away my Epiphone Les Paul Deluxe and use this one for electric work. The finish is still flawless and i's easy to play. It stays in tune for a whole performance. I use Thomastic Enfield flatwound medium strings but all string combinations make it still sould a little "tinny" unplugged.

Thank you Music123. You just sent me an Epiphone Emperor Regent.(Blonde) I must say that besides looking like a million dollars û not a blemish in sightû it sounded incredible as soon as I tuned the strings. I have owned several archtops, but never have I had anything that played so much like a true acoustical guitar. Played through a Fender Acoustasonic Jr, it sings, sweet and mellow. Easy to play, easy to keep in tune and beautiful to look at. Epiphone has done it again. It has made a great guitar affordable to us all.

I got this one instead of a Joe Pass and Samick bigbox I was looking at, and am glad. Has a greatclassic look, yet not overly ornate. Just a simple,elegant, no nonsense look and feel. Acoustic soundis wonderful and a plus, plugged in, it can soundboth woody acoustic, or fat jazz electric. It's aguitar I love to play, and even enjoy just lookingat. At it's street price, it's a bargain for anyonelooking for a decent jazz box.

My favorite guitar, use it for all kinds of music, it got a warm fat tone

I love classic Epiphones for their looks and unique tonal quality. I recently bought a new triple pickup Zephyr Blues Deluxe. The unamplified sound, although not very loud, made me wish I had the same body without the 3 pickups and control knobs. Then I saw a blemished Emperor Regent online at a reduced price and took the plunge. The Regent has a solid spruce top vs. the patterned maple of the Blues Deluxe.As I had hoped, this intact top produces quite a bit more volume when the single floating mini humbucker is not being used. The tonal quality is on the thin, bright, stringy side, almost like a 50 year old small body Gibson or Martin with light strings (but not as mellow). It's amazingly different from my same size body, same manufacturer Blues Deluxe acquired a month earlier. Different, but not fantastic. The pleasant surprise came when I plugged the Regent into a Crate Limo battery powered amp. With just a little electric sound added, the rich bottom and volume of the amp combine with the highs, string sound and chunk off the acoustic body to produce my current favorite guitar to sing with. Pop and jazz standards sound like those 40's recordings and radio shows, especially with a flat pick and full chords. The so called blemish that reduced the price turned out to be a tiny separation of the neck binding near the headstock. Otherwise the fit and finish are really outstanding for a guitar in the low to intermediate price range (for a hollow body archtop). I suspect that serious jazz players would love the response and traditional sound of this guitar with even more amplification than I use for singing. I have tried it with a larger amp and found it is one of the best sounding traditional, acoustic electrics I have heard anywhere. Unplugged, it's not an L-5 or a D'Angelico. Plugged in and cranked up it would take a better ear than mine to hear much difference. The neck feel and setup were first rate out of the box.