Back to navigation


An Inspiring Acoustic-electric Experience





This article was


Written By





Our Product Research Team





Get to know them!





The Takamine Pro series JP3DC dreadnought acoustic-electric guitar rewards you with its mellifluous sonority, understated good looks, and buttery playability. Pick it up, take the fast mahogany neck in your hand, strum a few chords, and revel in the harmonic richness resonating from the solid cedar top. Execute a single-note run, let your fingers fly all the way up the bound rosewood fingerboard, courtesy of the JP3DC's Venetian cutaway. Plug it in, and experience pure amplified acoustic tone, the way it was meant to be heard. The Takamine Pro series JP3DC ? to play it is to love it.





Great sound is in the details





The Takamine Pro series JP3DC acoustic-electric guitar benefits from quality tonewoods and Takamine's painstaking attention to detail. With its scalloped X-braced solid cedar top and sapele back and sides, the JP3DC looks great and is tonally versatile enough to handle whatever playing style your musical mood dictates. And if you're playing out, the JP3DC's beautiful and stage-friendly natural grain will certainly command your audience's attention.





Takamine: decades of quality, great sound, and playability





The Takamine Pro series JP3DC acoustic-electric guitar is the result of over a half-century of Takamine guitar-crafting know-how. Launched in 1962 at the foot of Japan's Takamine mountains, Takamine has been designing and building acoustic guitars that are seen in the hands of some of music's biggest stars. With quality and value as guiding principles, Takamine's instruments employ the finest tonewoods, construction techniques, and technical innovations, such as the proprietary CT4B preamp system found in this guitar.





Takamine's CT4B preamp system gives you natural amplified tone





The Pro series JP3DC sports Takamine's CT4B preamp, giving you rich, clear-sounding amplified output ? instantly. A feature of Pro series guitars, the CT4B features a 3-band EQ, volume control, and built-in tuner. The preamp is switched on by plugging a standard instrument cable into the end pin/strap pin jack. Unplugging the cable turns the preamp off. The CT4B is powered by a single 9-volt battery.





Takamine Pro Series JP3DC Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:


Dreadnought cutaway; scalloped X-braced solid cedar top, solid sapele back, sapele laminate sides


African mahogany neck with bound rosewood fingerboard, 20 nickel-silver frets, wood dot-in-dot inlays


Ivory binding, dark (wood trim) purfling, concentric rings with wood marquetry rosette


Rosewood pinless bridge, split bone saddle, bone nut


Ivory back binding, mahogany peghead with gold logo


Takamine CT4B II electronics onboard


Satin top, neck, back, and sides


Machine Heads: gold with amber buttons