Dave Navarro (Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and more) has teamed up with Epiphone to release his own signature instrument, the Epiphone Dave Navarro acoustic / electric guitar.

This stellar player can perform anything from heavy metal and psychedelia to modern rock, and so can the new guitar. In addition to playing with Jane’s Addiction and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Navarro has played on recordings such as Nine Inch Nails' Further Down the Spiral and Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. The Dave Navarro acoustic / electric guitar lives up to Navarro's versatility in playing, notes Epiphone, and delivers exceptional stage sound, playability, and a solid-wood tone.

The solid-wood dreadnought guitar has a solid sitka spruce top, hand-scalloped bracing, mahogany kerfing, and a solid Mahogany back. Hand-fitted to the Venetian cut-away body using a traditional dove-tail neck joint and hide glue is a mahogany neck with a 25.5-inch scale length solid Ebony fingerboard. According to Epiphone, this solid guitar has a naturally deep and rich bass, clear mid-tones, and punchy highs capable of cutting through, even while uplugged.

What's more, the Dave Navarro guitar features Epiphone's eSonic preamp system with the NanoFlex under-saddle pickup, which gives you complete control over your sound while performing live. Designed in cooperation with and made by Shadow of Germany, the eSonic is a small, lightweight preamp powered by two Lithium batteries. It features a fast, built-in chromatic tuner that allows you to "mute" the output of the guitar while tuning or while "unplugging" to avoid any loud "pop."

Other controls include Master Volume, Treble, and Bass EQ, a Dynamics slider that acts as an EQ frequency shifter, and a "phase" switch to help eliminate feedback. Under the saddle is Shadow's Nanoflex pickup -- not a piezo -- which uses seven layers of sensor material to pick up the vibrations of both the strings and the guitar body. The resulting sound is like a condenser microphone mixed with an under-saddle pickup, notes the manufacturer.

The guitar is finished in a high-gloss Ebony color, and the body is multi-bound on the top and on the back with contrasting white binding, just like the fingerboard and headstock. The sound hole is adorned with an inlaid rosette combining both binding and abalone, while the multi-layer truss rod cover features "Jane" in white, and the pickguard features a special line drawing.

Other features on the new Navarro acoustic / electric model include 16:1 ratio Grover machine heads for stable and accurate tuning, nickel hardware, a solid rosewood bridge with bone saddle, and a slightly wider nut width of 1.725-inches for precise fingering.

To learn more about the new Epiphone Dave Navarro, please visit epiphone.com.