Model E
Current Lead Time is 2 Months.
No Neck Pickup.
Traditional Wiring with Modified Dark Forward Position
1.625 Inch Thick Alder Body with 1/8 inch Rollover Radius
Vintage American Body Shape and Routes
Optional One Piece Maple Neck or Maple with Rosewood Slab
Medium C Neck Shape
21 Vintage Frets (.079 x .043")
7.25" Radius
1-5/8" Nut Width
Truss Rod Adjustment at Heel
Rolled Fretboard Edges
Staggered Post Vintage Tuners (Nickel)
Vintage Bridge (1/2 Satin Nickel)
Brass Saddles Angled for Proper Intonation
1 Ply Pickguard with 5 Screw Holes
Vintage Style Slotted Pickguard Screws (Nickel)
Electrosocket Switchcraft Jack (Nickel)
Broadcaster Quiet Coil Pickup by MojoTone (Hum-canceling)
Metal Dome Round Top Knobs with Medium Heavy Knurl (Nickel)
1 Master Vol Pot by CTS
1 Tone Pot by CTS
3 Way Switch by CRL
Back Switch Position: Tone Knob Bypassed (brighter and louder)
Middle Switch Position: Tone Knob Engaged
Forward Switch Position: Tone Bypassed with Custom Low Pass
Paper-In-Oil Tone Capacitors
Vintage Push Back Cloth Wire
Bone Nut
Handmade Shielding Paint
3150 Original Bullet Strings
THE BODY
1.625" thick is that sweet spot right in the middle of the range in which the early Blackguards varied (1.5" - 1.75")
THE FINISH
Finely polished and topped off with a flash coat mist of lacquer for closet classic like finish
Grain alcohol based spirit varnish lacquer
Handmade with a variety of all natural resins
Made to repair
THE DESIGN
Perfection in engineering and craft approached through repetition, standardization, and small changes over time.
Treating the 1950's T-style like the violin or cello: as having general character that is set.
THE PICKUPS
Hum canceling Broadcaster style
10.8k, Alnico 5
Highest output pickup in the T-style family
THE NECK
Rolled Fretboard Edges
Soft Satin Back
Broken-in Feel
Vintage Frets
7.25" vintage fretboard
THE HARDWARE
A reasonable attempt is made to source only parts made in the US or Japan.
The Gotoh vintage style staggerd tuners negate the need for a string tree. They have split shafts with holes in the middle. When wound propperly they are essentially locked, and leave no sharp string ends sticking out.
Long Switchcraft input jacks are used on the electrosocket, so you shouldn't run into any issues with your 90 deg plugs.