{"product_id":"b-stock-fret-king-elise-custom-with-vintage-style-vibrato-gloss-black","title":"B-STOCK Fret-King Elise Custom with vintage style Vibrato ~ Gloss Black","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eThe Fret-King® Elise™ is one of our most elegant styles. Ergonomic, classic lines, familiar, yet forward looking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe thin-line semi acoustic guitar is one of the great workhorses of the electric player’s arsenal. The Fret-King Elise Custom with vintage style vibrato, is the latest in a long line of Elise variants. With its offset, chambered mahogany body, carved, tuned maple cap, the Elise is light, strong, and resonant. Easy to wear and fast and fluid to play, it’s loaded with a pair of Trev’s most iconic pickup designs, the Fret-King Fifty-Five™, a first-generation pickup masterpiece. The Elise just oozes class and with the Varicoil™, and master tone with push\/push phase reversal, has the inherent versatility to adapt itself to the warm, mellow horn like lead lines of the thirties, or supernatural sounds from the sixties, straight-ahead full-bore rock, tilt its hat at classic country tone and then, with the flick of a switch a spin of a couple of knobs and a killer vibrato, you’ll be unleashing the Werewolf within!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElise Custom Vintage Vibrato Features\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBody:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe two-piece centre jointed, chambered semi-acoustic premium mahogany body features a tuned, violin carved maple cap, mahogany extended tenon neck joint, and premium mahogany neck, which all couple outstandingly well to create an airy lightness and ensure the strength and constructional integrity which provides the platform for the singing tone, blooming sustain and classic, authentic tonalities of the Elise Custom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe unique reduced profile neck joint and subtly extended cutaway offers enhanced upper fret access, and the superb overall balance makes the Elise Custom a pleasure to wear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeadstock:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe raked signature Fret-King headstock ensures correct string tension, perfect balance, classic looks, and great visual appeal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMachine Heads:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilkinson® WJ04 machine heads provide quick, accurate, stable tuning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNut:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e43mm Graph Tech® self-lubricating nut, smooth and friction free.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNeck:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGloss finished, body colour constructed from premium mahogany with classic ‘soft C’ profile for instant comfort, speed, accuracy, and a luxurious 'played in' feel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFingerboard:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePremium Indian Rosewood for durability and outstanding tonal transfer, with a 10” radius for a super comfortable, responsive, positive playing feel. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScale Length:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e24.7\" \/ 628mm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrets:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e22 Medium profile hi-durability nickel silver frets ensure accuracy, comfort, and an overall feel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePickups:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA carefully curated set of Fret-King pickups enables the Elise Custom to deliver phenomenal versatility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe custom designed Fret-King Fifty-Five™ double coil pickups, created by Trev Wilkinson using a truly authentic recipe, give the Elise Custom the inherent character and tonal versatility its semi-acoustic style suggests, whilst hinting at there being many other different personas waiting to burst forth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThose other personas manifest themselves from within an almost impossibly broad tonal palette. The Elise Custom features a three-way selector switch, master volume, master tone control with latching push\/push out of phase switch, and Fret-King’s unique Varicoil™ control which progressively winds the Fifty-Five pickups from full throated ‘powertone’, to sparkling single coil settings. The extraordinary range of tones this arrangement gives underscores the Fret-King ‘Versatility’ philosophy and makes the Elise Custom, a true journeyman player’s guitar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eControl Functions:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Three-way toggle selects neck, both, or bridge pickup.\u003cbr\u003e• Master Volume.\u003cbr\u003e• Master Tone with Push-Push Out of Phase Switch.\u003cbr\u003e• Varicoil rolls either or both pickups progressively from double coil to single coil.\u0026gt;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVintage style Vibrato:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnhancing that tonality is a direct mounted Wilkinson® GBR roller bridge, which anchors the bridge solidly to the body ensuring the all-important transfer of maximum string energy to the body and pickups. 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