Michael Kelly 1955 Electric Guitar, Rosewood Fretboard - Caramel Burst
The Great 8 electronics mod is one of our most demanded mods. With this mod we double the sonic spectrum of our two-humbucker instruments. You still have the full powered tone of each humbucker and the traditional settings to give you neck, bridge or both. With Great 8 we add two push-pull switches to the volume and tone knobs, that when pulled up one coil of the humbucker is disengaged giving you a cleaner single coil tone. You can control each pickup separately, maximizing your options. What can you do with 8 sonic options?
1955
The 1955 might best embody Michael Kelly's commitment to delivering guitars that are inspired not by the production cookie-cutter models, but rather by the best boutique builders in the world. The first attribute that you will recognize as uniquely boutique is the real flame maple binding. Other unique touches like the mini-humbucker neck pickup, compound radius fingerboard, highly figured quilt maple and swamp ash body further separate the 1955 from those high volume production guitars.
Sonically the Rockfield pickups are perfectly voiced for the 1955 model and each can be independently switched from humbucker to a traditional single coil tone with the GREAT 8 electronics mod. It delivers eight distinctive tonal options and all are just a simple click, push or pull away.
- Top: Quilt Maple
- Body: Swamp Ash
- Binding: Genuine Flame Maple
- Construction: Bolt On
- Neck: Maple
- Fretboard: Maple on Amber Trans and Black Wash, Pau Ferro on Caramel Burst
- Fretboard Radius: Compound 10.5" to 16"
- Number of Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo
- Inlays: Dots
- Headstock: 1950
- Scale Length 25.5 in / 647.7 mm
- Truss Rod Type Dual Action
- Neck Profile Modern C
- Nut Material: Bone
- Nut Type: Standard
- Nut Width: 43mm
- Strings: D'Addario EXL110 (.010-.046)
- Electronics: Great 8 Mod - Master Volume (push/pull coil tap) - Master tone (push/pull coil tap) - 3 way blade switch
- Neck Pickup: Rockfield Mini Humbucker
- Bridge Pickup: Rockfield SWC Humbucker
- Hardware Finish: Chrome
- Tuning Keys: Die Cast
- Bridge Type: Traditional
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If you are not happy with your purchase, you have 14 days to return it. It must be returned as it was received, with no signs of use. If there was a mistake in the listing or the guitar was damaged in shipping, I will cover return shipping; otherwise, buyer is responsible for shipping cost and full insurance. Please pack it as it was received. Money will be refunded as soon as item is received and tested. Please contact me immediately if anything is not right with your purchase, I will be happy to make it right!