“Paloma” is a ‘59 inspired S-Type built with a lightweight ash body in a striking aged three-tone nitro sunburst finish. The neck is a medium C-shaped profile with a slab rosewood ‘board with the correct truss-rod adjuster placement, clay dot markers and jumbo frets across the 7.25”” radius for a vintage-enhanced playing feel. The worn and tinted lacquer on the rear of the neck and rounded fingerboard edges lends a wonderful, broken in playing feel.
The tuners are double-line Kluson with the wonderful Callaham vibrato/bridge for stable tuning with an arm that stays where you put it and without any distracting wiggling and noise. Our usual highest quality CTS, Switchcraft and CRL electronic components sit beneath the full-sized aluminium shielding and aged, mint green pickguard. The distinctive, Texas heartbeat comes from our own Heavy Formvar wound “Timeless ’59” pickup set with the addition of a steel baseplate on the bridge pickup for a little extra punch where it's needed most.
- Model: “Paloma” S-Type
- Body: Two-piece lightweight ash
- Neck: Maple with dark rosewood fingerboard and clay dot markers
- Neck profile: Medium C-shape
- Neck dimensions: 23mm deep at 1st fret to 24.5mm deep at 12th
- Radius: 7.25””
- Fret size: Jescar FW58118
- Number of frets: 21
- Nut width: 41.8mm
- Finish: All nitrocellulose, aged Three-tone Sunburst on body with worn tinted lacquer on neck
- Plastics: Three-ply aged mint pickguard, with aged parchment pickup covers and knobs
- Bridge: Callaham enhanced vintage repro with steel block and bent steel saddles
- Tuners: Double line Kluson vintage repro
- Pickups: Eternal handwound “Timeless ‘59” single coil set with steel baseplate on bridge pickup.
- Electronics: CTS Brass collar 250k volume and tone pots with an Orange Drop capacitor, a CRL five-way selector switch, cloth covered hook-up wire and a Switchcraft output jack socket. Aluminium shielding plate.
- Nut: Handcut bone
- Strings: Ernie Ball Slinky 10-46
- Weight: 7Ibs 6oz
- Case: Vintage style hardcase included
