Roasted Maple neck
The Roasted Maple in the neck is heat-treated to increase stability, durability, moisture resistance and tolerance of temperature changes.
Roasted Maple fretboard
Heat-treatment provides a well-balanced attack and tone and a rich sustain. In order to achieve supreme neck grip comfort, the fretboard edge is finished with a smooth curve.
Jumbo frets
Jumbo frets contribute to smooth playability, especially for single-note playing.
Alder body
The Alder body delivers a well-balanced bright tone, enriched resonance and sustain.
DiMarzio® The Cruiser® /AT-1™ pickups
A DiMarzio® The Cruiser® in the neck position delivers single-coil tone, open vocal-sounding mids and a bit of added strength to the bass. A DiMarzio®AT-1™ in the bridge position gives excellent warmth and clarity, which balances well with the neck pickup.
Gotoh® MG-T locking machine heads
The Gotoh® MG-T locking machine heads achieve incredible tuning stability, cutting down string-changing time.
Wilkinson® WV6-SB tremolo
By utilising the unique Wilkinson "5+1" knife-edges, the Wilkinson® WV6-SB tremolo bridge offers unsurpassed "tone transfer" of a 6-screw pivot system with the smooth fulcrum action of a 2 pivot set-up.
Coil-tap switch
The coil tap switch adds sound and tonal variations for both pickups.
| neck type | ATZ Roasted Maple neck |
| top/back/body | Alder body |
| fretboard | Roasted Maple fretboard Black dot inlay |
| fret | Jumbo frets |
| number of frets | 22 |
| bridge | Wilkinson® WV6-SB bridge |
| string space | 10.8mm |
| neck pickup | DiMarzio® The Cruiser® (H) neck pickup Passive/Ceramic |
| middle pickup | DiMarzio® The Cruiser® (H) middle pickup Passive/Ceramic |
| bridge pickup | DiMarzio® AT-1™ (H) bridge pickup Passive/Ceramic |
| factory tuning | 1E,2B,3G,4D,5A,6E |
| strings | D'Addario® EXL110 |
| string gauge | .010/.013/.017/.026/.036/.046 |
| nut | Graph Tech® nut |
| hardware color | Chrome |
| Neck dimensions | |
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| Scale : | 648mm /25.5" |
| a : Width | 40.5mm at NUT |
| b : Width | 56.5mm at 22F |
| c : Thickness | 21mm at 1F |
| d : Thickness | 23mm at 12F |
| Radius : | 305mmR |
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| Switching system | |
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| When the coil tap switch is in neck position, the coil tap is engaged. When the coil tap switch is in bridge position, the coil tap is disengaged. Coil tap disengaged: When the pickup selector switch is in neck position, the neck pickup is selected. When the pickup selector switch is between neck and center position, the neck pickup and the center pickup are selected. When the pickup selector switch is in center position, the center pickup is selected. When the pickup selector switch is between center and bridge position, the center pickup and the bridge pickup are selected. When the pickup selector switch is in bridge position, the bridge pickup is selected. Coil tap engaged: When the pickup selector switch is in neck position, the neck pickup is selected. When the pickup selector switch is between neck and center position, the neck pickup and the center pickup are selected. When the pickup selector switch is in center position, the center pickup is selected. When the pickup selector switch is between center and bridge position, the center pickup and the neck side of bridge pickup are selected. When the pickup selector switch is in bridge position, the neck side of bridge pickup is selected. | |
| Controls | |
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| With the guitar held in the playing position, there is a five-way pickup selector switch near the knee cutout on the lower part of the body. The volume knob is above the pickup switch. There is also a neck and middle tone knob, along with a coil tap switch toward the end of the body. | |
| Other Features | |
| Recommended Case | MR500C |
| Gig bag included | |
| Gotoh® MG-T locking machine heads | |
| Coil-tap switch | |
| Luminescent side dot inlay | |
