Materials
One piece mahogany body.
Mahogany neck.
Ebony head-face.
Brazilian rosewood fingerboard & heel-cap.
Hand-cut ‘reverse’ V Mother-of-Pearl fingerboard markers.
Brass crown head-face logo.
24 3/4" scale length.
Medium/heavy gauge hard, high and high-crowned fret-wire.
Hardware
Nickel plated short Maestro Vibrola tremolo.
Custom nickel plated Grover Imperial machineheads.
Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB (bridge) & SH-2 Jazz (neck) pickups.
Nickel plated pickup covers and cream surrounds.
LR Baggs T-System piezo bridge saddles in a nickel plated Nashville Tunomatic bridge.
LR Baggs Control-X onboard pre-amp.
Separate volume controls with gold ‘mirror’ knobs for each of the 3 pickups.
3 way toggle switch for magnetic pickup selection.
3 way mini-toggle switch for magnetic/piezo or combination pickup selection.
Stereo output jack giving separate outputs for both magnetic and piezo systems.
All electronics are attached to a cream-black-cream laminated scratch-plate.
Cream-black-cream laminated truss rod cover engraved with Andy’s signature. The engraving is lined with a gold oil-based wax.
There is NO summed mono output on this guitar, to allow both systems
to be played through a single amplifier. She can either be used with a mono lead for the
magnetics or with a stereo with the magnetics and piezo going to separate amplification.
Colour
Body is sprayed with Champagne coloured nitrocellulose.
Back of headstock sprayed black.
Neck has been left as natural mahogany.
Top coated with a 'thin' covering of clear nitrocellulose lacquer. |