S-TYPE - RUSS BALLARD TRIBUTE

Our forth and final replica of Russ Ballard's distinctive workhorse guitar . Russ Ballard was one of the most prolific songwriters both with Argent, his own recordings and so many recorded by other artists.

I was fortunate to get access to the great man's guitar and was able to make accurate detailed plans of the shaping and the layout of the holes.

The first of the replicas was made for a friend of Russ' and Russ has played it onstage many times, leaving the original safely at home 

Features

Body

• Alder body with comfort contours
• body is a classic doublecut bolt on design modified as per the mods his own guitar had
  
  Neck

• quartersawn maple neck
• Rosewood fingerboard – 25.5” scale length
• Jim Dunlop 6155 gauge frets
• Mother of Pearl Dots and side dots
  
• Earvana Compensated Tuning Nut
  • Guitar is more in-tune with itself
• medium 60s profile
• neck is fixed with threaded inserts and machine bolts for greater tonal transfer
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Hardware

• Graphtech ratio tuners
• specialised  gear ratio for precise tuning of each string
• Feline Fatcat double whammy bridge with narrow spacing to keep strings in from the edge of the neck and cold rolled steel sustain block 
• Highwood saddles on bridge
• Jim Dunlop Straplocks

Pickups

• Bare Knuckle PG Blues and Mothers Milk Pickups - hand-made in UK
• BKP/CTS 280k pots with 0.022uF cap
• CRL switch and switchcraft jack
• Auto coil tap on position 2

Extras

• Feline Branded Hiscox Liteflite case
• Special custom leather tool pouch