A Second Custom Signature model for
Andy Powell.
aka
"Chamille"
The photo above was taken by Bob Greaves in
front of
Carreg Cennen Castle
Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK. August 2004.
Materials
She has a one piece Mahogany body,
Mahogany neck,
Ebony head-face and Indian Rosewood fingerboard.
She has hand-cut ‘reverse’
V
Mother-of-Pearl fingerboard markers and Brass Crown head-face logo.
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 'open' black bobbins and black 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 black ‘mirror’ knobs for each of the 3
pickups, 3 way toggle switch for magnetic pickup
selection. The piezo and magnetic pickups run to a 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 White Black White laminated scratch-plate. The White Black
White laminated Truss rod cover
is engraved
with
Andy’s signature. The engraving is lined with a gold
oil-based wax.
Colour
"Cherry"
She
is sprayed with a Nitrocellulose sealer then a Cherry coloured
Ethanol based stain. She is top coated with a 'thin' covering of clear Nitrocellulose
lacquer.
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