Archive for March, 2010

Guitar of the Day – Larrivee D-60 Brazilian

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Shocking as you may find it, I am at a loss for words on this one. Our Guitar of the Day is the Larrivee D-60 Brazilian. I am to busy oogling the back of this thing to come up with any metaphor or pop culture references. So on with the show.

The Larrivee D-60 Brazilian features:

All solid wood construction

Brazilian Rosewood Back & Sides

Single Piece Mahogany Neck (S. American)

Canadian Sitka Spruce Soundboard

African Ebony Fretboard & Bridge

Canadian Flame Maple Body Binding

Herringbone Purfling on Soundboard

Enlarged Soundhole w/ Herringbone Rosette

Shifted Symmetrical X-Bracing

Flat top Headstock w/ Valute

Mother of Pearl Diamonds on Fretboard

Mother of Pearl Headstock Logo

Rosewood Headstock Overlay

Open-Back Style Tuners (18:1 Ratio)

Traditional Angled Nut

Tortoiseshell Pickguard

Gloss Finish Body w/ Satin Finish Neck

Strap Buttons

Specifications

Lower Bout: 16″

Upper Bout: 11.875″

Waist: 10.875″

Depth: 5″

Scale Length: 25.5″

Nut Width: 1 & 11/16″ (43mm or 1.6875″)

Fretboard Radius: Compound (16″ to 21″)

Setup for Medium Gauge Strings

Frets – Nickel/Silver

Frets – Width: 2.5mm (0.0985″)

Frets – Height: 1.0mm (0.0394″)

Gloss Finish is UV Cured Polyester

TUSQ Nut & Saddle

Extras Included in Price

Deluxe Arch-top Case

Polish Cloth / Care Booklet / Warranty Card

Truss Rod Wrench

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Guitar of the Day – Flaxwood Voima (HSH-T) in Tobaccoburst

Friday, March 26th, 2010

I think it is safe to say in this day and age that not many people would agree that tobacco is good for you no matter the form. Well I am here to be the voice of dissent. And to help prove my point I give to you our Guitar of the Day, the Flaxwood Voima (HSH-T) in Tobaccoburst. I guarantee this guitar to be absolutely safe and most certainly a boost to your health and overall well being.

The Flaxwood Voima (HSH-T) in Tobaccoburst provides humbucker muscle and single coil clarity.To bring you the best of two worlds, the Flaxwood Voima (voima = strength, vigour, fortitude, force) features two humbuckers and one single coil pickup, all Seymour Duncan. Like the Laine, the Voima also comes equipped with a blender pot, which gradually blends the neck pickup signal with that of the bridge pickup, giving you a virtually limitless sonic palette from which to find your sound.

The Flaxwood Voima (HSH-T) in Tobaccoburst features:

  • Color featured: Tobaccoburst
  • Weight: 3.21kg / 7.08 lbs
  • Material: flaxwood
  • Features: flaxwood resonating back plate
  • Material: flaxwood
  • Neck joint: 3-D glued
  • Angle: Flat
  • Scale: 25.5″
  • Nut Width: 1 5/8” (42mm)
  • Fretboard Radius: 12″
  • Frets: medium jumbo
  • Measurements:

    • o 1st fret: 43.5 / 20.5 mm
    o 12th fret: 52.5 / 23 mm

  • Tuners: Gotoh SG360 HAPM; locking
  • Nut: Tune-X tuning system
  • Inlays: celluloid f
  • Shipped with string gauge: Elixir Nanoweb .010 – .046″
  • Bridge: Schaller LP Tremolo
  • Pickups: Bridge – Seymour Duncan SH-14 Custom 5 humbucker, Middle – Seymour Duncan SSL-2 Vintage Flat single coil, Neck – Seymour Duncan SH-2 Jazz Model humbucker
  • Controls: Master volume, Master tone, Blend (adds neck pickup signal gradually)
    5-way selector switch
    1. bridge; with blend
    2. bridge + middle; with blend
    3. middle; with blend
    4. middle + neck
    5. neck
  • Neck: Kivi natural rock
  • Hardware: Chrome

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Guitar of the Day – G&L ASAT Classic in Belair Green

Monday, March 15th, 2010

For the first time in my life I find myself wishing to be dubbed the Prince of Belair, and I don’t mean that as in fresh, although or Guitar of the Day is fresh from arrival. Guitar Adoptions proudly presents the G&L ASAT Classic in Belair Green as our Guitar of the Day.

The G&L ASAT Classic in Belair Green features:

G&L Magnetic Field Design Single coil pick-ups
Alder body
Birds-eye Maple neck and fingerboard
Tinted Gun Oil finish
Double bound body binding
12″ neck radius
1 5/8″ (41.3mm) neck width at nut
Schaller non-locking tuning keys
Traditional boxed steel bridge with individual machined brass saddles 3 position pickup selector, volume, tone
Belair Green finish
Silver Hardware
G&L Deluxe Tolex case included
10 Year limited Warranty
Weight: 8.3 lbs.

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Guitar of the Day – Fender American Standard Stratocaster – 3 Tone Sunburst

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Clapton, Hendrix, You???

Our Guitar of the Day comes from our Pre-Owned selections and is a MINT Fender American Standard Stratocaster in 3 Tone Sunburst.

The Fender American Standard Stratocaster in 3 Tone Sunburst is listed at a price point that will make you put down that plastic Strat that came with your Rock Band game and become the real thing.

Head on over and check it out!

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Guitar of the Day – Grosh Hollow Bent Top Custom in Bordeaux Red

Monday, March 8th, 2010

If you are not familiar with Don Grosh and his Guitars, here is a chance to acquaint yourself with them. Our Guitar of the Day from our pre-owned stock ,is a Grosh Hollow Bent Top Custom in Bordeaux Red.

A little history. In 1985, Don joined Valley Arts, a famous guitar building shop in North Hollywood, California. The shop quickly grew to 35 employees with Don Grosh running the shop as Shop Foreman. Don and that team created guitars for such elite musicians as Larry Carlton, Steve Lukather, Jay Graydon, Lee Sklar, Vince Gill, Lee Ritenour and many others. That client list is worth several thousand albums worth of work and enough Grammy’s to fill a small house. Don remembers those times fondly, “Working with players of that caliber taught me a ton about dealing with very particular clients!”

Today Grosh Guitars is building guitars and basses at the highest quality level ever achieved. Don is still the driving force in the shop everyday, but now he has a team and a facility that is capable of creating more magical instruments with world class tone and old world craftsmanship. Grosh Guitars offers 17 different guitar models that are all completely customizable and created from the ground up one at a time. Some things really never change.

The Grosh Hollow Bent Top Custom in Bordeaux Red features:

Mahogany body with amazing Quilt Maple top
Rosewood fretboard
1 5/8″ nut width, with Medium round profile
6105 frets
Black headstock
1088 Tremolo
Lindy Fralin Pickups BS BS H-Unbucker
Blend control with Push/Pull
Deluxe hardshell case

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Guitar of the Day – G&L Comanche Semi Hollow Electric Guitar Honeyburst

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Winnie the Pooh may not have been a rocker but I like to think he was. And he would defintly like our Guitar of the Day the G&L Comanche Semi Hollow Electric Guitar in Honeyburst.

Honey, honey.honey…………

The G&L Comanche Semi Hollow Electric Guitar in Honeyburst Specs:

3 G&L Magnetic Field Design Z-coil pickups
Premium Birds Eye Maple Top over Ash body
Birds-eye Maple Neck with Birds-eye Maple fingerboard
12″ (304.8mm) neck radius
1 5/8″ (41.3mm) neck width at nut
Schaller locking tuning keys
G&L Dual Fulcrum vibrato bridge
5 position pickup selector plus mini-toggle switch enabling additional pickup combinations of neck + bridge or all 3 pickups together, volume, PTB system
Gorgeous Honeyburst finish
Chrome hardware
Graph-Tech Graphite nut
Upgrade Pearl pick guard
Certificate signed by Mrs. Leo Fender
G&L Deluxe Tolex hard case included
10 Year limited Warranty

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Guitar of the Day – Larrivee RS4 electric guitar in Rootbeerburst (Lefty)

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

I don’t know if adding ice cream will make this Rootbeerburst a float but it sure can sing. Our Guitar of the Day is the Larrivee RS4 electric guitar in Rootbeerburst (Lefty). In keeping with our equal opportunity to rock policy, we present another lefty from Guitar Adoptions. It may not be right but it sure aint wrong…

Larrivee RS4 electric guitar in Rootbeerburst (Lefty)
SPECS:

WOODS
Core Body:  South American Mahogany
Top Plate:  Extra Thick Flamed Maple
Neck:  Single Piece South American Mahogany
Fretboard:  Indian Rosewood
Headstock:  Indian Rosewood

MEASUREMENTS
Scale Length:  25.5” or 650mm
Upper Bout:  9.875
Waist:  8.125”
Lower Bout:  13”
Body Thickness at Edge:  1.5”
Overall Length:  38.75”
Nut Width:  1 & 11/16th” or 43mm
Weight:  approx. 8 lbs.

TRIM/CONSTRUCTION
Neck Join:  Extra Long Mortis & Tenon, Glued in
Headstock Border:  Sterling Silver
Headstock Logo:  Mother of Pearl
Fretboard Binding:  Ivoroid w/Black Side Dots
Fretboard Inlay:  Mother of Pearl & Abalone V-Block Inlays
Body:  Ivoroid with Multi-Strip Purfling
Heelcap:  Ivoroid
Pickup Rings:  Curved Plastic
Knobs:  Speed Knobs
Backplates:  Textured Black
Cutouts:  Back & Cutaway
Metal Hardware:  Nickel & Chrome

HARDWARE
Tuners:  Schaller M6 Tuners
Pickups:  Larrivee Custom Humbucker Pickups(Made in USA)
Bridge:  Tonepros T3BT-N Nickel Bridge
Tail:  Tonepros T1Z-N Nickel Tail
3-Way-Switch:  Switchcraft Short Toggle Switch
End-Pin Jack:  Switchcraft ¼” Mono Jack w/Short Thread
Potentiometers:  CTS Long Shaft 500k Audio Pots
Capacitors (Bridge):  Luxe Bumblebee Paper-in-oil (PIO) 0.022mF
Capacitors (Neck):  Luxe Bumblebee Paper-in-oil (PIO) 0.015mF
Strap Buttons:  Schaller Strap Locks
Truss Rod:  Single Action Coated Steel Rod
Truss Rod Adjustment:  Mini Spoke-Nut design on Final Fret
Strings:  Cleartone Electrics Guitar Case (included):  Custom Fit Wooden Case with Blue Velvet Lining (Made in Canada)

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