Sound Pure's Take
The Strandberg Boden Essential 6 in Black Granite is a sleek, modern instrument built for comfort, precision, and versatility. Its lightweight solid meranti body offers a balanced, focused tone, while the custom humbuckers deliver a wide range of sounds from tight, articulate cleans to more driven, powerful textures. The roasted maple EndurNeck profile provides an ergonomic, supportive feel that helps reduce fatigue and encourages fluid playing across all 24 frets. With its streamlined design, 5-way switching, and responsive feel, it adapts easily to a variety of styles. Clean, precise, and effortlessly playable, this Boden Essential 6 offers a modern playing experience that feels fast, comfortable, and highly responsive!
From Strandberg Guitars
A revolution in accessibility and ergonomics
The Boden Essential is a true .strandberg* instrument with all the key features that has made it a guitar icon of the 21st century. EndurNeck™ neck profile, supremely low weight, perfect balance, and a wide selection of tonal options. It is the most affordable .strandberg* to date and also features the proprietary Arc hardware that is as solid as it is intuitive.
The Boden Essential 6 is an instrument designed to cater to the needs of aspiring students and professional musicians alike.
- Dexterity
- Right-Handed
- Neck Construction
- Bolt-On
- Body Construction
- Solid
- Scale Configuration
- Straight Scale
- Neck Profile
- EndurNeck
- Bridge Type
- Hardtail
- Pickups
- .strandberg* Custom
- Instrument Weight Global
- 2.15 +/- 10% Kg
- Instruments Weight Imperial
- 4.75 +/- 10% Lbs
- Included Instrument Bag/Case
- .strandberg* Essential Gig-Bag
- Country of Manufacturing
- Indonesia
- SKU
- BD6CT-24E-R-S-BK
- Body Shape
- Boden
- Body Material
- Meranti
- Body Top Material
- N/A
- Body finish color
- Black Granite Metallic Satin
- Body Finish Type
- Acrylic Satin
- Neck Material
- Roasted Maple
- Neck Reinforcement Material
- N/A
- Fretboard Material
- Rosewood
- Scale Length
- 25.5"
- Fretboard Radius
- 20"
- Number of Frets
- 24
- Zero Fret Type
- N/A
- Main Fret Type
- DHP 28HFS Stainless Steel
- Neutral Fret
- 0
- Nut Width Global
- 42.00 mm
- Nut Width Imperial
- 1.65 inch
- Fretboard Inlays
- White Plastic
- Fretboard Side Dots
- White Plastic
- Neck Finish Type
- Acrylic Satin
- Neck Finish Color
- Natural
- Nut
- Plastic moulded 6-string nut
- Truss Rod
- Double-Expanding Steel
- Hardware Finish
- Black Satin
- Bridge
- Arc 6-string Straight Hardtail Bridge
- String Lock
- Arc 6-string String Lock
- Knobs
- Dome Knob knurled Black
- Pickguard
- N/A
- Pickup Configuration
- H-H
- Electronics Type
- Passive
- Bridge pickup
- .strandberg* 6-string Hum Hot Bridge 53mm Black
- Middle Pickup
- N/A
- Neck pickup
- .strandberg* 6-string Hum Vintage Neck 50mm Black
- Control Set
- Master Volume, Master Tone, 5-Way Pickup Selector
- Pickup Switching
- 1. Bridge Humbucking, 2. Bridge Humbucking + Neck Outer Coil, 3. Bridge Humbucking + Neck Outer Coil in series with Neck Inner Coil, 4. Neck Inner Coil, 5. Neck Humbucking
- Onboard Electronics
- N/A
- Instrument Length Global
- 800.00 mm
- Instrument Length Imperial
- 31.50 inch
- Body Width Global
- 320.00 mm
- Body Width Imperial
- 12.60 inch
- Body Thickness Global
- 42.50 mm
- Body Thickness Imperial
- 1.67 inch
- Neck Thickness 1st Fret Global
- 21.70 mm
- Neck Thickness 1st Fret Imperial
- 0.85 inch
- Neck Thickness 15th Fret Global
- 22.50 mm
- Neck Thickness 15th Fret Imperial
- 0.89 inch
- String Spacing at Bridge Global
- 52.50 mm
- String Spacing at Bridge Imperial
- 2.07 inch
- Factory Strings
- D’Addario NYXL 10-46
- Factory Tuning
- EADGBE
- Included Accessories
- Guitar Tool Kit
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