JP Special

081001

construction: set neck
body timber: alder
body overlay: figued maple
neck: maple
fingerboard: ebony
owner: Don db

owner’s story

Body of red alder with an overlay of figured maple in honey gloss colour. Pickups: Seymour Duncan Jazz (SH-2) and JB (TB-4), Volume and tone for each pickup, rotating 3 way selector. Neck pickup splittable by pulling out volume button, Gibson style tun-o-matic curved Schaller bridge and chrome plated stop end piece, neck of birdseye maple laminates with veneer details, neck profile is flat C, fingerboard in Indian ebony with mop inlay, frets are 22 Dunlop 6150, scale is 628mm with radius 41 cm, tuners of Schaller M6 locking’s, chrome schaller straplocks. fitting hard case, nut width 42mm, body, neck and headstock with ivoroid alignment. Hollow body without F holes, jack at the back.
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