The Newporter Special Honey Burst features a mid-size Auditorium model body made of solid okoumé. The instrument's resonance is enhanced by X-type ribbing. A mahogany neck with a narrower "Slim C" profile is glued to a pau ferro fingerboard fitted with twenty frets, with maple position dots to facilitate orientation across its surface.
Stable tuning is ensured by the attachment of strings via the zero and saddle bone frets in the company's 6-in-line electric guitar design and Modern Viking headstock. The nice workmanship of the instrument is accentuated by the maple perimeter binding and rosette, black pickguard and nickel hardware.
True amplification of the natural acoustic sound is guaranteed by the Fishman Flex Body preamp, combining the sensing of an underbody piezo pickup and a contact pickup located in the body of the guitar. The character of the sound can be adjusted using the Volume, EQ (Tone) and Blend controls, which adjust the piezo/body sensor pickup ratio.
The instrument comes in a deluxe gig bag.
Specifications
- Product Colour: Honey Burst
- Colour: Sunburst
- Surface Treatment: Matte
- Type: Newporter
- Cutaway: Yes
- Body Construction: All Solid
- Top/Face: Okoumé, Solid
- Back Plate: Okoumé, Solid
- Sides/Ribs: Okoumé, Solid
- Neck: Mahogany
- Scale: 650 mm
- Number of Frets: 20
- Nut Width: 43 mm
- Fingerboard: Pau Ferro
- Bridge: Not specified by the manufacturer
- Nut: Bone
- Pickup: Yes
- Pickup Type: Piezo + Contact Pickup
- Model electronics: Fishman Flex Body
- Controls: Volume, Tone, Blend
- Integrated Tuner: No
- Tuning Machines: Fender
- Hardware: Nickel
- Hard Case: No
- Case: Yes
- Strings: Fender Dura-Tone 880L Coated 80/20 (.012-.052 Gauges)
- Country of Production: China