The Rapier Saffire's double-cut body is made from African okoumé wood. A rosewood fingerboard fitted with twenty-two Medium Jumbo frets (including a zero) and positional imitation mother-of-pearl blocks is glued to a bolt-on maple neck with a pleasing "Soft C" profile.
A trio of custom-wound Astro Sonic single-coil pickups with Alnico V magnets give the guitar a clean dynamic sound with balanced response across the frequency range. Complete control over the final sound is provided by the controls in the form of a volume potentiometer, tone shutter and five-position toggle switch. Further sonic options within the frequency parameters of the pickups are offered by the Entwistle ATN5 five-position switch, i.e. up acoustic quality, boost mids or accentuate ringing highs.
The strings are mounted in Wilkinson E-Z-Lok tuning machines via a GraphTech NuBone zero fret, and in the original Saffire Hi Lo vibrato via a fixed cob. The nice workmanship is accentuated by the chrome hardware, three-layer split pickguard and gloss black headstock.
Specifications
- Product Colour: Sunburst
- Colour: Sunburst
- Surface Treatment: Gloss
- Type: Double Cut
- Body: Okoume
- Top: Does not contain
- Neck: Maple
- Neck Profile: Soft C
- Scale: 628 mm
- Radius: 12 "
- Number of Frets: 22
- Nut Width: 43 mm
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Pickup Configuration: S-S-S
- Pickup model: 3x Custom Wound low-noise Astrosonic single coil
- Controls: 1x Volume, 1x Tone, 1x 5-way "Variator" switch
- Pickup Switch: 5-Way
- Bridge: Single-Locking Tremolo
- Tuning Machines: Wilkinson E-Z-Lok
- Hardware: Chrome
- MIDI: No
- USB: No
- Hard Case: No
- Case: No
- Strings: N/A