It is quite obvious at the first glance that there’s a Gotoh 510 series tremolo, double-cut shape, it all leans to famous S-type guitar. However, however, however...We wired it the way that positions 2 and 4 are splitting both pickups, position 2 - outer coils, position 4 - inner coils. It appeared that those split-coil positions are from another guitar, which came out even earlier, in 51. Soothsayer is more than meets the eye. "Soothsayer" is equipped with an Impulse set from Bare Knuckle Pickups. We just love Bare Knuckle pickups for their versatility. To access those tones you have a 5-way super-blade with coil-splitting positions 2 and 4. No-Load tone pot, which in position ‘10’ does not engage our military spec’d tone cap, allowing the pickups to be oneself (give it a turn and you have another tool to alter your sound) with Pure Tone jack ensure the sound quality and stability. For tuning stability and the quality of strings vibration, we appointed GraphTech nut and string tree, along with Gotoh series 510 locking tuners and Gotoh 510 series 2-point tremolo bridge. We chose an alder body with or without top paired with a quarter-sawn or 5-piece maple/walnut neck, titanium-reinforced in both cases, for extra-stability.
"Soothsayer" is equipped with Impulse set from Bare Knuckle Pickups. We just love Bare Knuckle pickups for their versatility. To access those tones you have 5-way super-blade with coil-splitting positions 2 and 4. No-Load tone pot, which in position ‘10’ does not engage our military spec’d tone cap, allowing the pickups to be oneself (give it a turn and you have another tool to alter your sound) with Pure Tone jack ensure the sound quality and stability.
For tuning stability and the quality of strings vibration we appointed GraphTech nut, and string trees, along with Gotoh series 510 locking tuners and Gotoh 510 series 2-point tremolo bridge.
We chose an alder body with or without maple top with quarter-sawn or 5-piece maple/walnut neck, titanium-reinforced maple neck for extra- stability as time-approved tonewoods.
- Body
- Back: European alder
- Top: Poplar Burl
- Pickguard: Acrylic pickguard thickness: 3 mm/0.118
- Color: Natural
- Neck
- Wood: Hard-rock maple and baked maple, 5-piece, titanium-reinforced, Valiant Guitars "Diamond" volute
- Profile: Assymetrical C profile
- 1st fret -Depth: 20,5 mm/0.807" Width: 42 mm/1.65"
- 12th fret - Depth: 22 mm/0.866" Width: 51.7 mm/2.035"
- 22nd fret - Width: 51.7 mm/2.035"
- Scale length: 25.5"/648 mm
- Fretboard: Roasted hornbeam
- Radius: 12" radius/304.8 mm
- Frets: 22 Nickel silver frets, extra-hard, Jumbo, width: 2.8 mm/0.110", height: 1.65 mm/0.064"
- Truss-rod: Easy-access, stainless steel truss-rod wheel
- Electronics
- Neck pickup: Bare Knuckle Pickups Impulse, Alnico V
- Bridge pickup: Bare Knuckle Pickups Impulse, Alnico V
- Controls: 1 volume - CTS 500k, 1 tone - No-Load 500k, 5-way super-switch - Switchcraft
- Capacitor: Soviet paper-in-oil, military spec’ed
- Jack: Pure Tone, canopy construction
- Hardware
- Bridge: 2-point, Gotoh 510 series
- String spacing: 10.8 mm/0.425"
- Nut: Bell-bronze adjustable, 42mm/1.65"
- Tuners: Gotoh 510 series, locking
- Other
features- "Trinity" maple inlays
- Duralumin enhanced-grip knobs with wooden pointer
- Full shielding
- Duralumin cavity covers
- Valiant Guitars hard-shell case included