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Charvel GUTHRIE GOVAN SIGNATURE HSH FLAME MAPLE

Description

As a preeminent modern virtuoso, U.K. guitar master Guthrie Govan dazzles all who hear his playing. Charvel spent two years of meticulous development with Govan to first introduce his Guthrie Govan signature model in 2014, and it's the ultimate ultra-pro guitar. Loaded with special features and high-performance appointments, it's truly the ideal expression of Govan's artistry rendered in distinctive Charvel form.

For 2017, Charvel is offering new incarnations of Govan's signature model, including the Guthrie Govan USA Signature HSH Flame Maple.

This 25.5" scale guitar offers a caramelized basswood San Dimas® body with a gorgeous flame maple top with a thin satin urethane finish and a specially contoured heel (sans neck plate) for easy access to the upper reaches of the fingerboard. The bolt-on neck is two-piece flame maple with a "caramelized" heat and drying treatment that makes it sound and feel much older, with graphite reinforcement, hand-rubbed urethane gel on the back of the neck and a convenient truss rod adjustment wheel at the body end. Most unusually for a San Dimas model, the compound-radius (12"-16") flame-maple fingerboard spans two octaves, with the same caramelized treatment as the neck, 24 extra jumbo stainless steel frets and special maple dot inlays with ebony borders, as well as Luminlay side-dots that emit light for the darkest of stages.

Other premium features include three specially wound Charvel custom MF pickups arranged in a versatile HSH configuration with five-way switching for the expansive tonal openness and dynamic sensitivity that Govan demands, a 2-way mini toggle switch to engage single coil simulation in bridge and neck humbucker position, two Luminlay numbered dome control knobs (master volume, master tone), U.S.-made recessed Charvel locking tremolo bridge with Tremol-No(TM) unit and oversized brass block, bone nut and chrome hardware.

SERIES: Artist Signature Models
BODY MATERIAL: Caramelized Basswood with Flame Maple Top
BODY FINISH: Satin Lacquer
NECK: Caramelized 2-Piece Flame Maple with Graphite Reinforcement
NECK FINISH: Hand-Rubbed Urethane Gel
FINGERBOARD MATERIAL: Caramelized 2-Piece Flame Maple with Graphite Reinforcement
NUMBER OF FRETS: 24
FRET SIZE: Jumbo Stainless
POSITION INLAYS: Ebony Ring with Maple Dot Center
NUT MATERIAL: Bone
NUT WIDTH: 1.6875" (42.86 mm)
TUNING MACHINES: Sperzel® Locking
SCALE LENGTH: 25.5" (648 mm)
BRIDGE: Recessed Charvel® Locking Tremolo Bridge
PICKUPS:
* Neck: Charvel® Custom MF Humbucking
* Middle: Charvel® Custom MF Single-Coil
* Bridge: Charvel® Custom MF Humbucking
PICKUP SWITCHING: 5-Position Blade and 2-Position Toggle with multiple switching options
CONTROLS: Volume, Tone
CONTROL KNOBS: Dome Style Luminlay Numbered Knobs
HARDWARE FINISH: Chrome
STRINGS: NPS, .010-.046 Gauges
PICKGUARD: None
CASE/GIG BAG: Included Charvel® Hardshell (p/n 009-0915-000); Optional Gig Bag (p/n 299-1414-006) sold separately
SPECIAL ELECTRONICS: 2 Mini-Toggle to Engage Single Coil Simulation in Bridge and Neck Humbucker Position
OTHER FEATURES: Heel-Mounted Spoke-Wheel Truss Rod Adjustment, Contoured Body Heel with Recessed Neck Attachment Ferrules (No Neck Plate), Maple (with Ebony Border), Face Dot Position Inlays and Black Side Dots, Gotoh® Strap Buttons, Knurled Chrome Dome Control Knobs, Brass Control Position Marker Inlays in the Body, Side-Mounted Oval Output Jack, Low-Friction Potentiometers