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Model: Double Standard
Year: 2017
Type: Double-cutaway chambered electric
Body: Swamp Ash with Torrefied Swamp Ash top
Neck: Wenge with Zebrawood skunk stripe & off-white custom inlays. Asymmetric "C" profile, bolted-in (brass inserts)
Scale Length: 25.5"
Nut / Width: Bone / 42mm
Fingerboard: Wenge, compound 10" to 16" radius
Frets: 21, Medium / Tall
Hardware: Fidelity Guitars bridge plate, Fidelity Guitars brass ferrule block, Gotoh SD-91 "Magnum Lock" tuners
String Spacing, Bridge: 52mm
Electrics: Mojo Pickups Firebird-Sized Gold Foil (neck) & Humbucker-Sized Mojotron Blade (bridge), 4-way rotary pickup selector, master volume with treble bleed & master tone, Electrosocket jack
Weight (lb): 7lb 2oz
Finish: Body: Surf green over white nitrocellulose, medium ageing. Neck: Tru-Oil
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
What to say. A lovely looking British made strat. It looks like a strat, it sounds like a strat. It is well made and comes with a Gordon Smith branded hard case. It has two small marks on the body which are photographed below. A few swirly scratch marks that I can’t photograph and you can only see if you really look like any guitar that’s been played a few times. I only mention them for completeness. There’s no fret wear and it is in great condition.
Classic S - S/N 21914
Sienna Burst
Swamp Ash Body
Maple neck (Vintage tint)
Maple Fingerboard (Vintage Tint)
18:1 Deluxe Gotoh Tuners
Gold Hardware
7lb 12oz
KD Custom Barncaster and hard case - £399 including UK postage - sold pending payment
This is a completely handmade guitar including the pickups and metalwork. I have all the photos from building which I’ll send to the buyer. It is well set up. The action is low and it has no buzzing or choking. The pickups suit overdrive and to my ear through my Deluxe Reverb are more mid with less chime than my Fender Am Pro II.
I’ve just put some new D’addario NYXL 10s on it and treated the fretboard to a bit of Monty’s wax and it looks and feels good. The neck is a medium C - a bit bigger than Fender Modern C. It has Gotoh in tune brass saddles.
The body is pine, which I understand is at least 40 years old. It is resonant unplugged and you can feel the vibration in the guitar when played.
It is definitely a bit rustic in places and I’ve switched the neck plate over to hide the cowboy on horseback that is engraved on the other side. There’s also a small indentation on the neck that is photographed. It might be possible to steam it out given the thin finish on the neck. It isn’t significant enough for me to try and doesn’t bother me.
It was a real impulse buy for me and it’s a genuinely nice guitar but it isn’t my thing aesthetically. Plus I have a Fender tele and have just built a rosewood tele of my own, so it really is surplus to requirements.
It comes with a good quality brand new hard case.
The tele is a good guitar. Quite rustic, but plays great.