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Specifications
Variable Materials:
Wood: Usually maple and spruce for the soundbox and maple for the
neck. The fretboard, peghead face, bridge and tailpiece are usually
made of ebony. The pickguard/pickup ring skin is made of ebony
most times (its core is always fiberglass), and the pickup is usually
made of ziricote or ebony.
The bindings are usually made of maple or ovangkol, and the purfling
is usually fiber.
Most metal parts are gold plated.
The finish since 01/2022 is epoxy+Tru-Oil (Birchwood-Casey). In some
cases it can be nitrocellulose (Votteler).
Fixed Materials:
Carbon and fiberglass: The truss rod access cover, tuning machines
cover and tailpiece bracket are all carbon with a glued lamination of
wood, usually ebony. The peghead has two internal carbon
reinforcements where the tuners are attached. There is also a carbon
base located inside the bridge saddle, where the piezos rest. The
bridge feet are hollow, made of carbon fiber and wood, usually ebony,
and joined by two carbon fiber rods. The pickguard/pickup ring piece
has a fiberglass core inside its wooden skin.
The frets are Jescar FW47104SS (stainless steel).
The nut and the small pieces at the bridge saddle that cover the
piezos, over which the strings press, are made of cow bone.
The tuning machines are Schertlers, modified so that their
mechanisms are hidden inside the peghead, usually with ebony knobs.
Piezos: Custom individual mini crystals with custom charge amplifier.
Potentiometers: long rotational life (100.000 cycles), conductive
polymer.
Measurements:
Neck: The scale is usually 25.5” (648 mm), while the nut width is
usually 1
11/16
” (43 mm). The scale can also be 25” or even 24
3/4
”.
The nut width may be 1
3/4
” (44.5 mm).
Soundbox depth: usually around 65 mm.
15 inches at lower bout.
