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Artisan Deluxe  # 044

Body - White Limba
Top - 5A 1 Piece Flame
Neck - Brazilian Rosewood
Headstock Overlay - None
Fingerboard - Brazilian Rosewood / 12" Radius / 25" Scale / 22 Fret
Nut - Tusq
Fretwire - 6150
Neck Carve - Medium 'C'
Matching Inlaid Truss Rod Cover
Bridge - Tremolo / Nickel
Tuners - Nickel Sperzel Locking w/ Pearl Buttons
Dunlop Straploks
Fingerboard Inlays - Firesuns Pearl + Paua
Purfling - None
Inlaid Logo - Paua / Pearl
Side Dots - Mother of Pearl
Pickups -
Neck - Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro
Bridge - Seymour Duncan JB
Controls - Vol. x 1, Tone x 1 (push/push), 5-way Megaswitch Model E, plus coil tap push/push switch on tone
LR Baggs Piezo saddles + active CTRL-X preamp
Color -
Top - Yellow/orange double stain
Body Back - Orange
Neck - unfinished

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I speced this guitar out to be a "PRS killer" and it is - sounds great clean all the way to super-high gain, really articulate, excellent piezo system and no annoying rotary switch!

The wood in this guitar is special - the BRW neck is the only one (at least at the time of completion) that came from a wide enough blank that it needed no wings added to the headstock. Ron also says that this is a very high quality, old growth hunk o' BRW that would set you back $1000 all by itself if you bought it today. The top is also pretty seriously nice - it took Ron a few months to find one to satisfy my picky tastes.

'rjmmusic'