Our lightweight Eternal "PAF Replica" equipped T-Type guitars are perfect for those looking for a versatile, tone-packed, and simple instrument to cover a wide variety of musical styles. The combination of a lightweight build, solid hardware, and our open-sounding "PAF Replica" pickups creates a unique tone—both resonant and focused—that allows the player to find their authentic voice.
For this version, I decided to use a mid-'50s vibe and aesthetic, with a two-tone burst and a white pickguard.
The body is solid, lightweight ash, and once again, we've used a sleek, soft-V-shaped one-piece maple neck. The body is finished in aged two-tone sunburst nitro, with the neck and fingerboard aged to mimic decades of use. The comfortable profile and carve, aided by a vintage-correct 7.25" radius and jumbo frets, make for effortless playability.
The juice, as ever, comes from our own "PAF Replica" humbuckers - a standard low-wind in the neck with a beefier "Super-PAF' in the bridge. I've used four-conductor hook-up wire from the pickups to further broaden the tonal versatility. Whilst not strictly speaking vintage-correct, it does allow a wider of wiring options, and here I've used a simple but high-quality CTS push/pot on the tone control to simultaneously split both pickups to offer (in conjunction with some clever treble-bleed circuitry) an excellent pseudo-Tele tone. As simple as this appears, the result is the best of two guitars in one.
Elsewhere, we have Gotoh hardware with split-post tuners and a chopped ashtray bridge with three compensated brass saddles. Electronics are our usual top-notch CTS brass collar pots, a CRL three-way selector switch, and a Switchcraft jack socket in an "electro socket" to ensure trouble-free jack life.
- Model: "Shrimp" PAF T-Type
- Body: Two-piece lightweight ash
- Neck: One-piece maple with black dot markers
- Neck profile: Soft V-shape
- Neck dimensions: 22.8mm deep at 1st fret to 24.3mm deep at 12th
- Radius: 7.25"
- Fret size: 6100
- Number of frets: 21
- Nut width: 42mm
- Finish: All nitrocellulose, aged two-tone sunburst on the body with worn tinted lacquer on the neck.
- Plastics: One-ply aged white pickguard
- Bridge: Cut down ashtray with three brass compensated saddles
- Tuners: Gotoh vintage repro
- Pickups: Eternal hand-wound "PAF Replica" set. Nickel-covered, A2 mag PAF in the neck, with un-covered, "Super PAF" in the bridge position. Both are four-conductor outputs and wired to a CTS push/pull to split the coils and offer the two-pole coils as 'single coils.'
- Electronics: CTS Brass collar 500k volume pot with push/pull tone pot that also splits the pickups. An orange Drop capacitor, a CRL three-way selector switch, cloth-covered hook-up wire and a Switchcraft output jack socket.
- Nut: Handcut bone
- Strings: Ernie Ball Slinky 10-46
- Weight: 6Ibs 12oz
- Case: Vintage style hard case included
