The Vintage ProShop Unique V6PU0005, Die Brüke ’61, is a unique instrument, built by the UK ProShop team and showcasing their talents to the full, which also features the work of German pickup maestro Andreas Kloppmann. Die Brüke ’61 celebrates one of the most iconic and recognisable guitar players in the world, the incomparable Thomas Blug, and is an ‘homage’ to his equally incomparable, magic, white ’61.
Die Bruke ’61 features
Body:
Refinished American alder body in Vintage White, with custom aged patina, distressing and the unique wear and discoloration patterns associated with decades of playing.
Vibrato:
The Wilkinson WVC vibrato bridge featured on Die Bruke ’61 is a masterpiece of detail. Positive location, 6 screw design, ( only five used here though!), provides return to pitch accuracy. Perpendicular bend, high grade steel saddles enhance tonality and ‘snap’. Ground base plate corner provides authentic looks. Stagger drilled steel block significantly enhances return to pitch accuracy and classic vintage tone. The ‘push-in’ Delrin-bushed arm with variable tension provides the arm height and feel that suits your style.
Pickups:
A balanced set of Kloppmann Thomas Blug ST II pickups, fitted to a shielded pickguard, with full coverage aluminium underplate, fine-tuned to provide the typical true vintage neck and bridge pickup tone which harmonises perfectly with a beautifully mild middle pickup, to produce fantastically ‘pearly’ tones in position 2 and 4.
Controls:
Kloppmann “DC KIT” wiring loom, with master Volume control, and treble bleed cap, reversed position tone controls for neck pickup and middle pickup, with bridge pickup wired traditionally , no tone control. The neck tone control features the Bukka™ control, on a push/push switch pot, which engages a dummy out of phase coil, serially mixed with regular pickup signal, reducing noise, producing a smoother and more stable tone, particularly in hi-gain sounds, where it can function also as a filter, enhancing the range of tones available.
Machine heads:
Wilkinson WJ55 patented E-Z-Lok tuners. Simple, effective locking action for increased tuning stability. Staggered string post heights provide correct string rake angle for smooth vibrato action and correct playing tension.
Neck:
Hard rock Maple with custom profiling and distressing to emulate the unique wear and discoloration patterns created during years of super expressive playing.
Fingerboard:
Period authentic 7 1/4" radius Rosewood fingerboard provides positive feel and superior playability.
Frets:
21 Medium profile frets for increased comfort, accuracy, and overall positive feel.
Scale Length:
25.5" / 648mm.
Nut:
43mm GraphTech® nut, facilitates smooth string bending and friction-free vibrato use.
Headstock:
Classic Vintage headstock design for balance and visual appeal.
The Vintage ProShop Unique V6PU0005, Die Brüke ’61 guitar is a creation of the Vintage UK ProShop.
About Vintage Proshop
For years now, our Vintage® technicians and designers have been listening to suggestions from players all around the world.
We've taken those ideas, blended them with our own concepts and visions and in January 2019, Vintage® guitars launched the Vintage® ProShop® UNIQUE concept in the UK and the US, with the talented luthiers and builders in the Vintage® UK and US workshops producing a handful of Vintage® ProShop® UNIQUE guitars, one off master-built instruments created with love, care, and the traditional Vintage® values of super high specification and astonishing ‘bang for the buck’, as workshop concept guitars, flights of fancy and the wild imaginations of our ProShop® teams let loose, using exclusive combinations of finishes, parts, hardware, pickups and accessories to create wonderful one-offs, some of which may make their way into future Vintage® series production guitars and basses.
Aside from the attention to the fine details of the superb aesthetics, Vintage® ProShop® ‘Unique’ guitars, have hardware and electronics from a host of amazing British made and Internationally famous brands, selected to suit the style, vibe and finish of each guitar, with wear patterns and ‘patina’ accurately crafted and applied to emulate the look and feel of a guitar owned and played for decades. All work is by hand and every finish is an individual one-off, with various weathered distressing processes that gives new guitars a killer vintage look, to deliver guitars that exceed the expectations of today's discerning guitarists.
Keep a close eye on the Vintage® ProShop® pages at collections/proshop as the ProShop teams will continue to produce a very limited number of ProShop® UNIQUES, which will post to the Vintage and JHS websites when completed and will be sold on a first come first served basis!
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Each guitar undergoes a full ProShop® setup, fret level, crown and polish, fingerboard dress and comfort treatment, truss rod adjustment and set, action height, radius, intonation and pickup height adjustment and nut slot regulation and comes with a Vintage® branded luxury gig bag, exclusive ProShop leather strap, pick tin, and tee-shirt and Individually numbered and signed ProShop® certificate of authenticity.
Availability
Vintage Pro-Shop UNIQUE guitars which are not attributed to a reseller, or which do not have a SOLD tag are available for purchase. Please contact proshopsales@jhs.co.uk for details of how to purchase.