Rees Electric Guitars Introduces SS3 Electric Guitar

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The SS3 has an HSH three pickup heavy-weight long-sustain sound, from a resonant light-weight body. This is achieved by the use of selected hard tone-woods and finely hand applied guitar lacquer. Vibrato bridge action and fixed bridge action are available in the same guitar. An original designed body features a thin carbon fibre reinforced neck joint, offering better access to high frets. The scratch-plate is 6mm solid figured maple, not cheap plastic, creating more musical resonance with long sustain as well as beauty. (During development a plastic scratch-plate was tested and found detrimental to tone.)

Standard pickups are Seymour Duncan: Jazz humbucker at the neck, Quarter Pounder single-coil middle pickup; JB humbucker at the bridge. Alternative pickup combinations are available to order. A push-pull switch on the tone control selects the whole guitar for humbucker or single-coil voices. The 5-way pickup selection switch provides 5 different humbucker sounds in order from neck to bridge by selecting various coil combinations, or selects 5 single-coil sounds in the industry standard way.

The Kahler Hybrid bridge provides vibrato action with a heavy solid and stable mechanism. The same bridge can be locked by turning an Allen key when the vibrato action is not required. This turns it into a fixed bridge guitar.

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• Solid korina body with figured maple front-plate for string balance and ultimate tone
• Kahler Hybrid vibrato bridge for deep dives and tuning stability or fixed action
• Seymour Duncan pickups within a chamber for tone enhancement
• Fender LSR Roller nut for tuning ease and accuracy, and string weight tolerance
• Schaller locking machine-heads for easy string changing
• Humbucker / single-coil switch provides a wide range of vintage and modern tones
• 5 humbucker voices and 5 single-coil voices
• Choice of korina stain colours, maple figuring, fret-board woods

Available now, price $1970 or £985

For more information, visit their web site at www.rees-electric-guitars.com.