British guitar designer Alan Entwistle and JHS have dusted off the vintage design of Watkins Rapier (WEM) guitars from the golden era of rock & roll and given them a new twist.
The Rapier 22's double-cut ST style body is made from African okoumé wood. A rosewood fingerboard fitted with twenty-three Medium Jumbo frets (including a zero) and position dots is glued to a bolt-on maple neck with a pleasing "Soft C" profile.
Two EWR64 mini-humbuckers give the guitar a balanced output and a clear dynamic tone. Controls in the form of two volume potentiometers (for each pickup separately), a tone shutter, a three-position toggle switch and two Bass Cut switches offer complete control over the character of the tone as well as a wide range of sound adjustment options.
The strings are held in Wilkinson tuning machines via a GraphTech NuBone zero fret and an original Rapier Hi Lo vibrato via a fixed cob. The nice workmanship is accentuated by chrome hardware and a three-layer pickguard.
The Rapier 22's double-cut ST style body is made from African okoumé wood. A rosewood fingerboard fitted with twenty-three Medium Jumbo frets (including a zero) and position dots is glued to a bolt-on maple neck with a pleasing "Soft C" profile.
Two EWR64 mini-humbuckers give the guitar a balanced output and a clear dynamic tone. Controls in the form of two volume potentiometers (for each pickup separately), a tone shutter, a three-position toggle switch and two Bass Cut switches offer complete control over the character of the tone as well as a wide range of sound adjustment options.
The strings are held in Wilkinson tuning machines via a GraphTech NuBone zero fret and an original Rapier Hi Lo vibrato via a fixed cob. The nice workmanship is accentuated by chrome hardware and a three-layer pickguard.
Specifications
- Product Colour: Daphne Blue
- Colour: Blue
- Surface Treatment: Gloss
- Type: Double Cut
- Body: Okoume
- Top: Does not contain
- Neck: Maple
- Neck Profile: Soft C
- Scale: 648 mm
- Radius: 12 "
- Number of Frets: 23
- Nut Width: 43 mm
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Pickup Configuration: H-H
- Pickup model: 2x EWR64 mini-double coil
- Controls: 2x Volume, 1x Tone, 2x Bass Cut on/off switch
- Pickup Switch: 3-Way
- Bridge: Single-Locking Tremolo
- Tuning Machines: Wilkinson
- Hardware: Chrome
- MIDI: No
- USB: No
- Hard Case: No
- Case: No
- Strings: N/A
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