A Custom Signature Model for
Andy Powell
of
Wishbone
Ash
Materials
She has a one piece Mahogany body,
Mahogany neck,
Ebony head-face and
Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard &
heel-cap.
She has hand-cut ‘reverse’
V
Mother-of-Pearl fingerboard markers and
Brass Crown head-face logo.
Her
Scale Length
is 24 3/4".
She has
Medium/Heavy
gauge Hard,
High
and high-crowned
fret-wire.
Hardware
She has a nickel plated
Short Maestro Vibrola tremolo,
custom nickel plated
Grover
Imperial machine-heads,
Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB (bridge)
& SH-2 Jazz (neck)
pickups
with nickel plated covers and cream surrounds,
LR Baggs T-System Piezo bridge saddles
in a nickel plated Nashville Tunomatic
bridge,
an LR Baggs Control-X onboard
pre-amp,
separate volume controls
with gold ‘mirror’ knobs for each of the 3
pickups, 3 way toggle
switch for magnetic pickup
selection, 3 way mini-toggle switch
for Magnetic/Piezo
or
combination pickup
selection and stereo
output jack giving separate outputs for
both magnetic
and piezo
systems. There is NO summed mono output
on this guitar to allow both systems
to be played through a single amplifier. She can either be used with a mono
lead for the
Magnetics or with a stereo
with the Magnetics
and Piezo going to separate
amplification.
All the electronics are
attached to a Cream Black Cream
laminated scratch-plate.
The Cream Black Cream
laminated Truss rod cover
is engraved
with
Andy’s signature.
The engraving is lined with a gold
oil-based wax.
Colour
"Champagne"
Her Body
is sprayed with Champagne
coloured Nitrocellulose the Back of her Headstock
is sprayed Black
and the Neck
has been left as Natural Mahogany.
She is top coated with a 'thin' covering of clear Nitrocellulose
lacquer.
Angel
Serial
Number
001
aka
"PC"
BACK HOME IN USA
ANDY 'JUST TESTING' AT ANALOG MIKES
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