The Malibu Special Natural is an electroacoustic guitar with a smaller Parlor-style body and a shorter scale. This makes it a suitable choice for players with smaller fingers, or conversely a challenge to play chords in normally unplayable fingerings. The body of the guitar is made of solid mahogany. The instrument's resonant properties are supported by X-type ribbing.
The mahogany neck with a narrower "Slim C" profile is glued to a pau ferro fingerboard fitted with twenty frets, orientation on its surface is facilitated by maple position dots. 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: Natural
- Colour: Natural
- Surface Treatment: Matte
- Type: Malibu
- Cutaway: No
- Body Construction: All Solid
- Top/Face: Mahogany, Solid
- Back Plate: Mahogany, Solid
- Sides/Ribs: Mahogany, Solid
- Neck: Mahogany
- Scale: 612 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 60L Phosphor Bronze (.012-.052 Gauges)
- Country of Production: China