- The Luddite. This guitar model represents a return to simplicity, back to a time when pushing the envelope was less important to successful marketing than structural integrity and long-lasting functionality.
- Over the years I have watched the metamorphosis of the electric guitar as it passed through a series of stages: the Floyd Rose Vibrato, the single HOT bridge pickup, the cut-away, the double cut-away, 18 frets, 24 frets, self-sustaining pickups, neck joints at the 14th fret, neck joints at the 16th fret, and on some neck-through models the joint occurs even higher up the neck. While each of these innovations was new and exciting to some, every time a structural limitation was pushed a compromise had to be made.
- This Luddite is a modern manifestation of the 1920s parlour
guitar. It has a single neck pickup, a tunamatic-style bridge with
a short trapeze tailpiece and the neck joins the body at the 12th
fret. The slotted headstock provides the strings a greater break
angle over the nut. This imparts more energy from the vibrating
string into the neck
Don't let the simplicity of this guitar fool you, there are rich tonal complexities lurking within. - Click on images to enlarge.
• 25" scale length
• Single soap bar P90 pickup
• Bolt-on mahogany neck
• Ebony fretboard
• Tunamatic bridge
• Trapeze tailpiece
- • Cherry nitro-cellulose finish
- Specimen's Luddite is $2250.
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