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H470 Astro Strat
H470 Astro Strat
H470 Astro Strat
H470 Astro Strat
H470 Astro Strat
H470 Astro Strat
H470 Astro Strat
H470 Astro Strat
H470 Astro Strat
H470 Astro Strat
H470 Astro Strat
H470 Astro Strat
H470 Astro Strat

H470 Astro Strat

£2,950.00

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THE H470 ‘ASTRO STRAT’ IS A FLAT TOP, SEMI-HOLLOW GUITAR. THIS GUITAR HAS AN IDENTICAL BODY PROFILE TO THE ORIGINAL HARMONY STRATOTONE, HOWEVER WITH A THICKER BODY AT 1 ¾". TYPICALLY THIS GUITAR COMES WITH WHAT IS REFERRED TO AS A ‘BASEBALL BAT’ NECK, WHICH IS TRUE TO THE PERIOD FROM WHICH ITS HAILS. AVERAGE WEIGHT IS 2.3KGS

From The Hammett Guitar Co. -

Introducing The ‘H470 Astro Strat’ is a guitar whose inspiration and lineage comes from those famous Harmony ‘Stratotone’ models of the 50’s, favoured by the forefathers of the electric blues / blues boogie era - a musical bloodline that was as prevalent back then as it is today. Accented delicately by the eccentricities of the Kay Pro guitar range this was the first model I designed in the Hammett Guitar Co. range and one I’m incredibly pleased to offer.

The full hollow-body construction allows for a plethora of microphonics to sculpt the dual MOJO ‘gold foil’ pickups tone and the result is a guitar that will wrench you back to an electrified guitar era of old.. however this instrument should not be confined to blues style guitarist alone. The ‘tight’ trapeze + floating bridge arrangement will perfectly suit for delicate jazz players too.

The ultra-thin Vintage Amber Nitro-Cellulose ‘sunburst’ allow the timbers to ring out and the wood grain to delicately show through the top, the combination of which gives a light ‘relic-look’ without strangling the tone of the materials used in its construction.

Hand carved Honduran Mahogany neck with rippled sycamore top and back, bent Sycamore rims, mahogany neck + tail & bridge blocks, Rosewood or Ebony fretboard with matching neck ‘skunk stripe’, Mother-of-Pearl Inlays, hand-made Ebony/Maple bridge base. The delicate yet powerful pick-ups are faithful recreations of Teisco ‘Gold Foil’ pickups - hand produced by Mojo pickups out of the UK.

Each model is unique and varies. Hand-crafted in the UK - 

 

CONSTRUCTION/SPECS OVERVIEW

 - MAPLE STEAM BENT BODY RIMS

 - RIPPLED ‘SYCAMORE’ TOP & BACK

 - HONDURAN MAHOGANY NECK, TAIL AND BRIDGE BLOCK

- QUARTERSAWN MAHOGANY NECK
- 24.75” SCALE LENGTH, 23 FRETS
- BOLT-ON STRAIGHT MORTISED NECK JOINT
- VINTAGE IVOROID BINDING THROUGHOUT

- MEDIUM FRETWIRE
- BONE NUT
- ROSEWOOD OR EBONY 12” RADIUS FINGERBOARD + MATCHING REAR NECK ‘SKUNK STRIPE’

- WIDTH AT NUT IS 1.625”, 2.2” AT END OF FINGERBOARD

 

STANDARD HARDWARE

- KLUSON CLOSED-BACK BUTTER BEAN TUNERS

- ABM ‘HARP’ TRAPEZE TAIL PIECE

- TONEPROS AVR 2 BRIDGE

- CUSTOM T-ROD COVER WITH MATCHING 'BATWING' PICKGUARD 

- 3 WAY TOGGLE SWITCH

- 1 MASTER VOLUME/ 1 MASTER TONE WITH 'ORANGE SPRANGUE' CAP

- CONTROL LAYOUT WITH SWITCHCRAFT & CTS COMPONENTS

- HARAMIS HARDWARE IVOROID MATCHING KNOBS + STRAP BUTTON

- GATOR HARDSHELL CASE (Deluxe or Journeyman Available)

 

FINISH CHOICES

TRANSPARENT FINISHES

  • HERITAGE CHERRY BURST
  • VINTAGE AMBER BURST

OPAQUE TOPS (black sides)

  • PIANO BLACK
  • OLYMPIC WHITE
  • FIESTA RED
  • TV YELLOW
  • SEAFOAM GREEN

METALLIC FINISHES

  • LIGHT PELHAM BLUE
  • DARK PELHAM BLUE

ALTERNATE FINISHES: > £150 (BINDING OPTION WILL NEED TO BE DISCUSSED TO SUIT)

 

OPTIONS

TAILPIECE:

  • BIGSBY TREMOLO £250

PICKGUARD:

  • COLOURED PLASTIC £0 (VARIOUS AVAILABLE TO MATCH CHOSEN PAINT+TRIM)
  • ALUMINUM £250

 

CHOICE OF PICK-UPs

  • MOJO ‘GOLD FOILS’
  • MOJO 'HERSHEY BAR'
  • ELECTRO-STRINGED 'ASTRO FOILS' (V. LIMITED AVAILABILTY)

 

INLAYS

  • DOTS £0
  • MOP BLOCK INLAYS £250
  • DOUBLE PARALLELOGRAMS £400

BINDING / PRICE DEPENDS ON CONFIGURATION. 

MISC / GOLD PICKGUARD/HARDWARE/GOLD BIGSBY £500

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