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Condition: Used, Excellent
SP Luthier Notes: Fret Dress, Setup, Cosmetic Work
From Other (Miscellanous Used/Vintage/Consign)
New Voices, New Choices
If a modern McInturff guitar has a hollow chamber in it, that chamber does a specifically designed job as regards the amplified tone. The chamber is never a randomly-dimensioned hollow pocket. This is why the original version of the award-winning Royal represented such a huge step forward for me as an electric guitar designer. The original Royal pioneered the way towards specifically tuned chambers in an electric guitar.
The new McInturff Royal is the newly perfected version!
The Royal features a chamber that is tuned to a specific, repeatable resonance... the Royal's chamber influences the guitar's acoustical nature in a planned, predictable way...and so, influences the amplified sound in a planned, predictable way. The benefit to the player is to have a full, rich semi- hollow amplified tone, with an incredibly even response all over the neck; there are no “live” and “dead” spots, such as is the norm for a semi-hollow guitar.
Meet the new Royal... New Voices, New Choices.
24.625” scale, 22 medium jumbo frets, 12” fretboard radius
Genuine pattern-grade Honduras Mahogany McInturff neck
17 degree headstock pitch
Dark, tightly-pored and sustainable East Indian Rosewood fretboard, master-grade
Bound MOP dot inlays
Selected-for-voice Figured Maple Top
Selected-for-voice Korina or Spanish Cedar body
Vintage style lightweight tuners
Highest quality CTS pots
Trad tone controls with really fine signal capacitors.
Bone Nut
Pickups: P90's
My unique McInturff Guitar 100% nitrocellulose lacquer finish, which replicates the properties of the original Nikolas lacquers from the old days. Incredibly thin.
TonePros AVR-II tuneomatic bridge or Wilkinson Compensator wraparound bridge
Aluminum stop tailpiece (to go with the AVR-II)
Hardshell case
Hand numbered, hand signed by Terry McInturff
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.
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