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Condition: Used, Mint
SP Luthier Notes: Setup Confirmed
From Duesenberg Guitars
The Starplayer Phonic is a semi-hollow instrument featuring a solid centerblock, Pearloid binding, a single F-Hole, arched top and a flat back. Semi-hollow guitars deliver a unique and open response suitable for any genre.
Fitted with our most popular pickup combination: GrandVintage Humbucker and Domino P90 covered by our elegant Phonico pickup covers in a striking gold finish. The 4-Way rotary switch offers a new pickup combination.
A Plek processed fretboard guarantees perfectly level frets. This is the basis for our multi-step fret polishing and setup work all done by hand that eventually makes all our instruments play like nothing you have ever played before.
With the Starplayer TV Phonic in an all-over bright Venetian White or all Black we are continuing our vision of truly independent hardware design.
The Phonic comes with the award-winning set of a GrandVintage humbucker for the bridge and Domino P90 for the neck position. The new pickup selector allows you to choose between each pickup individually or two options of combining them. The first option lets both pickups run freely without touching the frequencies, while the second option filters certain frequencies to give your tone a unique and even more defined character.
THE DUESENBERG RADIATOR TREMOLA IS THE EVOLUTION OF OUR OWN VIBRATO SYSTEM DESIGN.
It keeps everything that you love about about our original Diamond Deluxe Vibrato and delivers it in a new and exciting design.
Buttery smooth action, reliable tuning stability and string changes that are a breeze are just the main aspects of our unique vibrato design. Heavy duty needle and nylon bearings give you the highly responsive Duesenberg feel when using the vibrato arm. The arm itself can be turned freely for 360° and can be adjusted to your preferred angle and length. The strings are simply guided through the holes in the bar underneath the arm-axis and can be lead to the tuners without hassle.
"FINALLY, A PROPER SIGNAL!"
That's the number one feedback we receive from FOH once they start mixing our instruments during soundcheck. The Phonic delivers all the open, bright and defined tone that our instruments are known for. It is designed to sit right where a guitar has to sit in the mix while still providing every frequency needed to cut through.
PLEKED FRETBOARD
The fretboard is to your music, what the handle of a brush is to a painting. It says a lot about an instrument how much care was taken here.
Every single Duesenberg instrument is expertly pleked for buzz-free playability all throughout the fretboard. It is then carefully finished by hand and precisely set up by one of our professional luthiers. The luthier responsible also leaves his or her signature inside the instrument.
This all is our promise to you that a Duesenberg instrument will always feel great in your hands.
NECK
- Type
- Set Neck, 1-piece Maple
- Width
- 42.5 mm / 1.67" (nut), 52 mm / 2.05" (12th fret)
- Thickness
- 21 mm / 0.8" (1st fret), 24 mm / 0.95" (12th fret)
- Shape
- Medium D
- Fingerboard
- Indian Rosewood, radius 305 mm / 12"
- Inlays
- Duesenberg Wing
- Frets
- 22 Jumbo 2.8 x 1.0 mm
- Scale length
- 648 mm / 25.5"
- Trussrod
- Steel dual-action
- Headstock
- Matching body color
BODY
- Type
- Semi-hollow with sustain block, bent sides, f-hole
- Top
- Laminated Spruce, arched
- Back
- Laminated Maple, flat
- Sides
- Laminated Maple
- Dimensions
- 46 x 34 cm / 18.11" x 13.38"
- Height (sides)
- 4.5 cm / 1.8"
- Binding
- Pearloid, 5-layer purfling
- Pickguard
- Custom Gold
- Finish
- PUR lacquer
HARDWARE
- Tuners
- Duesenberg Z-Tuners
- Bridge
- Duesenberg Steel Saddle Bridge
- Vibrato System
- Duesenberg Radiator Tremolo
- Strap pins
- Duesenberg Standard (Straplock compatible)
- Hardware color
- Gold
- Strings
- Duesenberg Custom 10/50 (010-013-017-028-042-050)
ELECTRICS
- Pickup (neck)
- Duesenberg "Phonico" (P90 Domino)
- Pickup (bridge)
- Duesenberg "Phonico" (GrandVintage Humbucker)
- Wiring
- 1 Volume, 1 Tone, 4-way Rotary Switch
ACCESSORIES
- Case
- Custom Line Case (included)
- Tools
- All required allen keys (included)
Warranty
This item is sold without the Sound Pure 3-year warranty (used / B-stock / dealer-exempt). Coverage terms for items in this category live in Terms & Conditions, Section 27.
Returns
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