Hawkins Hot Rod Guitar
One Sweet Guitar…
This Hawkins Hot Rod sounds even better than it looks! With a “Modern Relic” but new paint, hand wound pickups (formvar wire), copper shielded cavity, separate volume for the middle pickup (can be used with any combo), hand wired, cts pots, locking tuners, alder body, maple neck, handmade ebony knobs and the list goes on to add up to one totally bad ass guitar. Professionally set up to specs. *Shipping calculated separately. Case not included.
Hawkins Hot Rod Guitars are guitars that we build from quality (often well aged) parts that we come across. This particular body and neck came from a Japanese made guitar from the 80’s. This is a PLAYERS guitar.
SPECS
*Scale length 25.5"
*Nut Width 1.595"
*Neck is "C" shaped
*Neckwood is hard Maple...its an excellent neck in every way
*Body is alder
*Pickups are Hawkins Handwound Single Coils (formvar wire... overwound by 5%)
*CTS pots with treble bleed on V pots
*Center pot is a volume to tone to jack circuit for the middle pickup - either V can be used as a kill switch
*3 way fender switch operates the bridge and neck pickups - bleed in the center pup to your pleasure
*Center pup is reversed for hummbucker effect
*Cavities are copper shielded
*Locking tuners
*Buffalo horn nut
*String height at the first fret .018"
*String height at the 12th fret 5/64(low e) 1/16(high e)
*Frets are level and polished and guitar is setup to professional playing specs.
*MOP pick guard and fret markers
*White Side Dots
*Threaded bolts and recievers for the neck