Bucket List Guitar: December 2014

Monday, December 29, 2014

Hohner HW200

• Full size Western guitar (with a scale length of 650 mm).
• Recommended for players who prefer a smaller body.
• Spruce top, catalpa back and sides, mahogany neck.
• Hardwood fingerboard and bridge.
• Light gauge steel strings for easier fingering.
• Natural high gloss finish.
• New optimized bracing pattern, neck block design and bridge design for stronger projection with stronger bass and treble frequencies

Xaviere XV_150S

Classic Dreadnaught power, but with a softer, rounder edge. The Solid Cedar top, laminated Bubinga back and sides and satin finish back and neck. Tortoiseshell binding, gold tuners with Brown Tortoishell buttons, nut and saddle are hand carved bone.

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Fender Ron Emory Loyalty Parlor

Body
Body Shape: Parlor
Body Back: Laminated Mahogany or Laminated Ash
Body Sides: Laminated Mahogany or Laminated Ash
Body Top: Laminated Mahogany or Laminated Ash
Bracing: Quartersawn Scalloped X
Rosette: Herringbone
Body Binding: Herringbone
Neck
Neck Shape: Soft "V"
Number of Frets: 19
Position Inlays: White Diamond-Shaped
Fingerboard Radius: 11.81" (300mm)
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Neck Material: Mahogany or Maple
Nut Width: 1.625" (41.3 mm)
Scale Length: 25.3" (64.3 cm)
Neck Binding: Herringbone
Hardware
Hardware Finish: Chrome
Bridge: Viking-Style Rosewood with Graphtech® Nubone™ Compensated Saddle
String Nut: Graphtech® NuBone™
Miscellaneous
Strings: Fender® Dura-Tone® Coated 80/20 Bronze (.012-.052 Gauge)
Unique Features: Ron Emory signature on truss rod cover, white diamond shaped position inlays with 12th-fret "Loyalty" logo, factory mounted forward strap button with internal block reinforcement, 70s headstock shape, black-with-white-dot bridge pins, dual action truss rod