This is a particularly handsome specimen in my opinion. You will recognize it as the guitar that I feature on my banner. It features some nicely figured walnut on the top and back around an alder core. The fingerboard is macassar ebony. The neck is a figured maple/walnut lamination. The body and neck have a black binding, with a white/black/white/black purfling around the body. The scale length is 25.5”.

 

 

 

In addition to the magnetic pickups, there is also an L. R. Baggs X-bridge with a built in piezo pickup for an acoustic sound. The signals from both the magnetic pickups and the piezo bridge pickup are routed through a L. R. Baggs Ctrl-X preamp. Together with a three way switch, magnetic only, piezo only, or mixed configurations are possible. The signal is switchable between mono (magnetic and piezo mixed to a single signal) and stereo (seperate signals for magnetic and piezo – requires a stereo chord). Knobs correspond to master volume, magnetic tone, and piezo/magnetic blend. A three way switch selects the magnetic pickups: neck, neck and bridge in parallel, and bridge. See the manual for more details.

 

The finish on this is a beautiful satin hand-rubbed

polemerized tung oil. The tung oil really accents the walnut’s figure beautifully.

 

This is one of my favorite guitars. It looks and sounds great.

 

The electronics feature two DiMarzio humbuckers sized and voiced like P90s, but without the hum. The neck pickup is a Virtual P90; the bridge is a DLX-90. Lots of sound possibilities. A six-way switch allows for the usual bridge, neck plus bridge and neck choices both in full humbucking dual coil and split single coil configurations.