Nighthawk

Like those classic guitars, it features a solid mahogany body and adds a AAA Flame Maple veneer and a glued-in SlimTaper Mahogany neck with an ebony fingerboard. The Nighthawk bridge is a string-thru-body design for more sustain.
The Nighthawk's unique pickup package that includes a full-size NHT humbucker (bridge), a NSX single-coil (middle) and a NHR mini-humbucker (neck) combined with a 5-way slider and push/pull coil-tapping tone knob, for 9 different switching options.

***"Now, guitarists who originally dismissed the Nighthawk as too "different" are recognizing what a great guitar it really is. That's why Gibson's Epiphone® division is introducing the Nighthawk Custom Reissue. One huge difference is the availability of Seymour Duncan after-market pickups for the Nighthawk's Slant NHT bridge position humbucker.***
***Seymour Duncan's Slant NHT Nighthawk pickups will come in two legendary voicings: The '59 Model™ and the JB Model™. The '59 is Seymour Duncan's take on the celebrated "Patent Applied For" humbucker, and its wound on the very same Leesona Model 102 winding machine that produced the early P.A.F. humbuckers. The output is vintage, and the tone is clear and crystalline. The hot-rodded JB Model™ is the world's most popular humbucker. Its powerful coil windings give it loads of output, but it retains its punchy upper-midrange detail."***

## Models

### Nighthawk Custom Quilt

Epiphone Nighthawk Custom Quilt

Epiphone Nighthawk Custom Quilt

* 2014 Limited Edition

**Body:**

* Mahogany body
* AAA Quilted Maple Veneer

**Neck:**

* Set Mahogany neck with SlimTaper "D" profile
* Rosewood fingerboard with crown inlays
* Clipped Ear headstock with flower pot inlay
* 12" fingerboard radius
* 22 frets
* 25.5" scale length
* 1.68" nut width

**Binding:**

* 3-ply body & headstock
* 1-ply neck

**Electronics:**

* Bridge Pickup: Slant NHT Humbucker
* Middle Pickup: NSX Single-Coil
* Neck Pickup: Mini Humbucker
* 1 Vol. 1 Tone with Push/Pull Coil Tapping
* 5-Way selector switch

**Hardware:**

* Nickel hardware
* Nighthawk String-Thru body bridge
* 14:1 ratio Grover tuners
* Black reflector knobs

**Colors:**

* Trans Black (TB)
* Trans Purple (TP)
* Trans Blue (TL)
* Trans Red (TR)

### Nighthawk Custom Reissue

Epiphone Nighthawk Custom

* 2010-2013

**Body:**

* Mahogany body
* AAA Flame Maple Veneer

**Neck:**

* Set Mahogany neck with SlimTaper "D" profile
* Ebony fingerboard with crown inlays (2010 model)
* Rosewood fingerbord with crown inlays (2011-2013)
* Clipped Ear headstock with flower pot inlay
* 12" fingerboard radius
* 22 frets
* 25.5" scale length
* 1.68" nut width

**Binding:**

* 3-ply body & headstock
* 1-ply neck

**Electronics:**

* Bridge Pickup: Slant NHT Humbucker
* Middle Pickup: NSX Single-Coil
* Neck Pickup: Mini Humbucker
* 1 Vol. 1 Tone with Push/Pull Coil Tapping
* 5-Way selector switch

**Hardware:**

* Nickel hardware
* Nighthawk String-Thru body bridge
* 14:1 ratio Grover tuners
* Gold or amber bell knobs or Black speed knobs

**Colors:**

* Fireburst (FB)
* Honeyburst (HB)
* Trans Amber (TA)
* Trans Black (TB)

### Nighthawk Special 3

Epiphone Nighthawk SP3

* 1993-1999

**Body:**

* Laminated Alder/Mahogany body

**Neck:**

* Bolt-on mahogany neck
* Rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays
* No inlay on headstock
* 22 frets
* 25.5" Scale
* 1.68" nut width

**Binding:**

* 1-ply body

**Electronics:**

* Bridge Pickup: Slant OBL Humbucker
* Middle Pickup: OBL Single-Coil
* Neck Pickup: Mini-humbucker
* 1 Vol. 1 Tone with Push/Pull Coil Tapping
* 5-Way selector switch

**Hardware:**

* Nighthawk String-Thru body bridge
* Amber bell knobs
* Deluxe vintage style tuners

**Colors:**

* Ebony (EB)
* Trans Amber (TA)
* Vintage Sunburst (VS)

### Nighthawk Standard 3

Epiphone Nighthawk ST3

Epiphone Nighthawk ST3

Epiphone Nighthawk ST3

* 1993-1999

**Body:**

* Mahogany body
* Flame Maple Veneer

**Neck:**

* Bolt-on mahogany neck
* Rosewood fingerboard with mother-of-pearl Parallelogram inlays
* Pearloid crown inlay on headstock
* 22 frets
* 25.5" Scale
* 1.68" nut width

**Binding:**

* 3 or 5-ply body
* 1 -ply neck

**Electronics:**

* Bridge Pickup: Slant OBL Humbucker
* Middle Pickup: OBL Single-Coil
* Neck Pickup: Mini-humbucker
* 1 Vol. 1 Tone with Push/Pull Coil Split
* 5-Way selector switch

**Hardware:**

* Nighthawk String-Thru body bridge
* Amber bell knobs
* Deluxe vintage style tuners

**Colors:**

* Ebony (EB)
* Trans Amber (TA)
* Vintage Sunburst (VS)