If you have been looking for a straight-forward, no-compromise, right-on-the-money tone machine...look no further! The Constantin Guitars Lucia Old Pine #0002 is an Esquire-style electric guitar with a body made of really old and fully dried out pine wood with a thin layer nitro finish. I am not sure how old the pine wood is, but it is super resonant and the guitar is really loud acoustically, which makes me believe that it has to have set to dry for a few decades.
The neck is a nice, C-profile maple neck with slight aging, rosewood fingerboard with 9.5" radius. Medium sized frets are a perfect fit to round it up. The string action is actually pretty low for a neck with these specs.
As with all my builds, I used Nectite inlets and screws for the body/neck connection. This way you can take the neck off for adjustments as many times as you want without risking that the wood is going to wear out.
This Lucia has one Custom Shop Seymour Duncan BG-1400 pickup, which is a stacked singlecoil (although technically that would be a humbucker). It kind of smoothens the high-end and promotes low-end and mids, while being hum-free. But I've also added a small toggle switch, so you can deactivate the lower coil and get that classic Tele twang and bite, with some added noise obviously. Master Volume & Tone of course.
Hardware is all Gotoh, for bridge, tuners and strap buttons.
The total weight of this guitar is just 3 kilos (6.6 lbs) and it has no neck dive at all, but sits very balanced on a strap. If you have any other questions around the guitar, feel free to send me a message.
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