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Godin Guitars Freeway Classic in Lightburst

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Freeway Classic in Lightburst
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The Freeway Classic is the first double cutaway design by Godin in several years. In spite of the tremendous success of the single cutaway design featured throughout the Godin line, there has always been a contingent of hard-core, double-cutaway enthusiasts encouraging us to do something for them. With that in mind we went to work on the Freeway Classic. The basic formula is classic Godin, versatile, blues/rock gigging machine with ‘boutique guitar’ build-quality at a blue-collar price.

Godin’s rock maple necks are known throughout the guitar industry for outstanding feel and boundless sustain. The 25 ½†scale neck on the Freeway features Godin’s ergo-cut shape and medium jumbo frets. Neck stability is insured by a double-action truss system capable of adding and removing relief in the neck. The body consists of a center block of silver-leaf maple with light poplar wings. Silver-leaf maple is an excellent tone wood with a weight and density similar to mahogany. The warm tone of the silver-leaf provides a perfect compliment to the rock maple neck. To ensure that we get the most from this potent combination, each neck and body are joined with a perfect wood-to-wood connectionâ€"free of paint or glueâ€"that delivers maximum neck/body energy transfer. The sound of the silver-leaf maple comes at a priceâ€"it’s heavy! To balance the guitar and achieve a comfortable weight the silver leaf core is flanked with light poplar wings. This ultimately produces a comfortably light guitar with ‘heavy guitar’ resonance.

The Godin humbucker-single-humbucker pickup configuration makes the most of excellent acoustic response of the Freeway. A double 5-way switch along with volume and tone controls supports the pickups.

Specs
Body - Silver Leaf Maple center with Poplar wings
Fingerboard - Maple or Rosewood
Neck - Maple
Scale - 25½"
Electronics - Godin humbucker-single-humbucker, tremolo bridge, double 5-way switch, volume & tone controls

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Was playing some expensive Strat and some dude was plucking away at this. He told me to forget about that and try this. It was FREAKING sweet! I had no plan to buy a guitar that day. I didn't. I couldn't stop thinking about it for a week. I thought that I was stupid to not have bought it. I thought that it's gonna be gone for sure and I'm going to regret it. I went back and it was till there. It was used (shows NO SIGNS of being used though) and was only $226!!! Best deal EVER!
Versatile as hell! Sweet sweet tones! Can rock, or can be nice and clean ...it is really a jack of all trades.
Posted by The Dude on Jan 29, 2023
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Closest Store   Waterloo, Ontario
Out of the three guitars that I own and play frequently, this one is my favourite. I come back to its amazing tone time and time again. I have owned it for almost exactly a year now, and will own it for many, many years to come. This guitar is unbeatable when it comes to the bang for buck ratio. Should be sold for $700
Posted by Grant A. on Feb 23, 2012
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