Description
What makes this guitar special: Red Rocket makes totally custom guitars, one at a time, to your exact specs with the best materials and components. Private Reserve level woods, vintage tone caps and custom wound pickups, custom binding and purflings are just the start. They mix vintage vibe with the best contemporary guitar building techniques to create modern classics with roots in the golden age of guitars. This particular model offers some well thought out & tasteful features, such as tortoise binding with checkerboard purfling on a contoured body. The combination of the Lindy Fralin Mini Humbucker & Fralin Blues Special ½ & ½ makes for a perfect match creating dynamic tones & superb playability.
Cosmetic Condition: Excellent condition overall & very clean with only mild surface scratches.
Neck: Semi-chunky, soft V-shaped claro walnut neck with white side-dots. Brazilian rosewood fingerboard with cream dot inlays. Stainless steel medium-jumbo frets are in great shape with no wear. Hipshot tuners are in perfect working condition. 1 11/16" nut width; 25 1/2" scale length. Neck is straight & truss rod is in perfect working condition.
Body: Contoured, solid mahogany body with tortoise binding. Black sparkle top with checkerboard purfling. Vintage-style Fender string-thru bridge with titanium barrel saddles. Large gold sparkle pickguard. Guitar weighs 7 lbs 5.7
Pickups: Lindy Fralin Mini Humbucker Neck Pickup & Fralin Blues Special ½ & ½ Bridge Pickup. On 1/2 & 1/2 pickups, Red Rocket puts the ALNICO III magnets in the E, A & G position and the ALNICO Vmagnets in the D, B & high E. This puts the brighter magnets where they are most useful. Bridge - 7.16K ohms; Neck - 6.39K ohms. Master volume & tone controls with knurled dome knobs; 3-way toggle switch. All electronics are in perfect working condition.
Case: G&G vintage style hardshell case - white tolex with black trim.
