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Epiphone Chet Atkins SST Classic

Name: Epiphone Chet Atkins SST Classic
Brand: Epiphone

Epiphone · Chet Atkins SST

Price: 360 EUR – 700 EUR

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A nylon-string built like a solid-body electric rather than an acoustic: a chambered mahogany body with a spruce top and no soundhole, designed with Chet Atkins to let classical/flamenco parts be played live at volume without feedback.

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About the Epiphone Chet Atkins SST Classic

The Chet Atkins SST has no soundhole and only a thin, chambered mahogany body under its spruce top - closer in concept to a solid-body electric guitar than to a traditional classical instrument. That construction exists specifically to prevent acoustic feedback at stage volume, the main problem with amplifying a true hollow-body nylon-string guitar through a loud PA. The mahogany neck is glued in (set-neck) rather than bolted, with a rosewood fingerboard at a 25.5-inch scale and 2-inch nut width, and a slotted headstock in the classical style.

Electronics are Epiphone/Gibson's NanoFlex pickup system feeding a dedicated SST Classic preamp, rather than a simple passive piezo - designed to reproduce a more acoustic-like tone despite the guitar having essentially no resonating chamber. A single 1/4-inch output jack on the lower bout, in the electric-guitar tradition, replaces the strap-button/endpin jack combination found on true acoustic-electrics.

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Sound character of the Epiphone Chet Atkins SST Classic

Built like a solid-body electric rather than an acoustic - chambered mahogany body, spruce top, and no soundhole - it produces very little natural acoustic resonance or sustain on its own; the NanoFlex pickup and SST Classic preamp are doing the real tonal work, giving a controlled, feedback-resistant nylon voice designed to be played loud on stage.

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Technical data for the Epiphone Chet Atkins SST Classic

Body	Chambered mahogany, spruce top, no soundhole
Neck	Mahogany, set-neck
Fretboard	Rosewood
Scale length	25.5"
Nut width	2" (51mm)
Electronics	NanoFlex pickup + SST Classic preamp
Produced	1994-2000

Price history for the Epiphone Chet Atkins SST Classic

Cheapest seen: 360 EUR · Most expensive seen: 700 EUR

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The history of the Epiphone Chet Atkins SST Classic

Chet Atkins, a steel-string virtuoso who also performed classical and flamenco-style pieces, developed this solid-body nylon-string concept with Gibson in the early 1980s specifically to solve his own feedback problems playing nylon-string parts live; Epiphone continued the design as the SST Classic from 1994 to 2000 as a more affordable version of Gibson's own Chet Atkins CE/CEC models.