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FS - Beardsell Equs Masterbuilt - ~ Mega Bargain Price ~. SOLD
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Amazing guitar from one of the most innovative luthiers around. This would be well over £5k to order something like this, so opportunity to get into that kind of guitar for USA standard Strat sort of money.
Absolutely incredible build quality on this guitar, sounds amazing. Beautiful wood everywhere. Body made with sinker Wild Cashew wood, dredged from an area of Panama Canal during expansion, so likely originally cut in late 1800’s. Lovely Madagascar RW fretboard. It plays absolutely effortlessly and sounds lovely, highly resonant, really excels with some drive tones as you would expect. I was contemplating putting some Firebird pickups in it, just because it seems like a guitar that would love them, but too many projects to actually get round to it…
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https://www.beardsellguitars.com/imagine-the-possibilitiesI would love to keep this, but had an influx of all kinds of gear and really much more focused on single coil guitars primarily, so a few things are going up for sale. Condition is very good, a few little dings here and there, so not a case queen, but nothing to detract from how lovely it is.
- Birdseye Sugar Maple top
- Very old Wild Sinker Cashew chambered body
- Mahogany neck
- Madagascar rosewood fingerboard
- 24.9" scale
- Nickel frets
- Bigsby B-5 Vibrato taipiece
- Dark polished Tort pick guard
- 3 handwound mini-humbuckers - neck /bridge on 3-way switch, middle series overdrive tone pot push/pull in/out)
- Gotoh 510 tuners
- OHSC
- Weight 6.5lbs
There is also a Shaller roller bridge that this originally came with, but frankly you would be mad to put it back on, it is night and day with the Nashville bridge that is on it. I also took off the roller bar from the bigsby as felt this gave the perfect break angle to the bridge, it sets up brilliantly either way, but I have often done this on Bigsby equipped guitars and like the results personally. The roller it’s included in the case if you want to try things out both ways.
Total and utter bargain for a guitar of this quality at
£1,695 £1,550 £1,425 delivered. SOLD
Comments
This Equus is wonderful and only left me because, try as I might, I can't get on with a Bigsby.
If you do like a Bigsby, you should consider this guitar. Lovely neck, great tones from Al's own mini humbuckers and boy does it look good. Masterbuilt quality for mass-production price.
GLWTS