Available right now...the latest guitar out of the Bravewood workshop, a very cool transition era style S type, finished in a nicely distressed candy apple red, said to be Leo’s favourite colour...
Completely hand made body and neck, the body is lightweight alder with deep contours, the neck is maple with a dark rosewood fingerboard, it is the curved join ‘veneer’ type as would have been seen at the time. The radius is 9.5” with medium frets, the neck depth at the 1st fret is 20.3mm, 24mm at the 12th, the nut width is a vintage correct 1 5/8”. The profile of the neck is a very comfortable oval shape, sort of bordering on a slight V...Clay dots are fitted along with a bone nut for enhanced tone. The rosewood has been ‘aged’ and polished to give it a worn look...something that is rarely seen on replica guitars.
Vintage style hardware is used throughout, from the trem unit with steel block to the Kluson style Gotoh tuners, neckplate to the jack cup...all bang on vintage spec.
The hand made/hand aged pickguard is the later ‘whiter’ type, 1964 saw the transition from the celluloid material to the safer and less flammable vinyl guards..! The full size aluminium shielding plate is still present on the underside. The pickup covers and knobs are aged to suit the build, as is often seen on real vintage knobs, the gold paint is missing...!
The pickups are a set of Fender Pure Vintage ‘65’s, they give all the classic vintage tones and are suited to this era of guitar, I particularly like the out of phase sounds...These are wired through CTS vintage style pots and a CRL 5 way switch, the guitar is wired so that the bottom tone knob operates on the bridge pickup, the middle tone controls the other two. A Sprague new old stock 0.022mfd cap is used for tone duties.
The candy apple red finish is the later type with the gold base coat as opposed to the earlier silver base. This gives the finish a warmer look. The body is distressed to show the gold undercoat in the high wear areas in addition to some white primer being visible too. The distressing is meticulous and detailed, plenty of lacquer checking, forearm wear, buckle rash, dings and knocks, back of the neck feels beautifully played in.
The guitar is lively and resonant, harmonically rich and is a pleasure to play. It is nicely lightweight at just 7lbs 4ozs...very light for a tremmed guitar....
The guitar is supplied in an ABS hard case, please click HERE to see more pictures of the guitar...
Any further questions, please ask....
‘64 style CAR S type
£2,295
