Bacchus Craft Imperial MIJ SSH Strat-Style Natural Ash Made in Japan

Description: Bacchus Craft Imperial Natural AshWhy we love itExceptionally comfortable and easy to play, the Imperial is quite a player’s guitar. Craft series instruments were hand crafted using premium tonewoods and exceptional attention to detail in Japan, competing well above their price point. Now discontinued, made in Japan Craft series instruments in great condition are becoming rarer to find by the day. This excellent condition player grade example offers great tone and a sublime playing experience for a reasonable price. ConditionThis guitar is in Excellent condition with minor signs of prior use. There are minor marks scattered over the front and back of the guitar normal for an oil finish instrument that has seen some playing time. Unless you look close, they are well hidden by the natural ash oil finish. The electronics are in good condition and function properly. Frets show some signs of wear but have plenty of life left. The neck shows no signs of warping or waviness. There are minor signs of use on the edges of the fingerboard. The truss rod is smooth and in good working order with plenty of adjustment left. To ensure optimal playability, several frets on this guitar were reseated and leveled by a professional luthier. A complete setup has been performed including adjusting the truss rod for optimal relief, strings set for medium action, pickup height set, and intonation is dialed in with new D’Addario 10-46 strings installed. The Imperial weighs in at a reasonable 7.2 pounds. A Bacchus gig bag is included.OverviewSimilar to its G-STUDIO sibling, the Imperial is a fantastic contemporary interpretation of the SSH Strat-style guitar, but with streamlined controls and different pickups. Bacchus Craft Series guitars were created in response to customer demand for premium quality guitars at a lower price point. The Imperialis part of a series of Bacchus-made Strat-style guitars going back to Bacchus Guitars original founding in the 1990’s. The Craft Series Imperial provides incredible value for money and tonal versatility to tackle any genre with a wide range of tones on tap from classic Strat cleans to hard rock and high gain mayhem. Premium Ash is used for the body, providing balanced tone and beautiful grain pattern to show through the natural oil finish. The body is slightly smaller than comparable Fender Strat-style models, with a sleek contemporary look. The 25.5-inch scale maple neck offers fantastic playability with its C-shaped profile and satin finish. Bacchus necks are always a highlight and this one is no exception. Maple is used for the 24 fret, 12 inch radius fingerboard contributing to a well-balanced, fast, punchy, and articulate tonewood combo. High quality Gotoh tuners and tremolo bridge are used for hardware, providing excellent tuning stability.Electronics and ToneFull, clear, and sweet-sounding Bacchus Original SV Alnico 5 pickups are used for the neck and center positions. A hotter output Bacchus BHH humbucker is used in the bridge position. The overall package makes it easy to adapt to a variety of classic and modern tones with streamlined controls and coil tap switch for the humbucker. This specification provides fluid playing feel and detailed, dynamic, and tonally complex output suitable for clean, overdriven, and high-gain distortion sounds. SpecificationsBody: AshBody Finish: Black OilNeck: 2p MapleScale: 25.5 in (62.8 cm)Fingerboard Radius: 12 in / 305RFrets: 24Nut: BoneWidth at Nut: 1.65” (42 mm) Tuning Machines: GOTOH SG360-05P1Bridge: Synchro TremoloPickguard: White Pearloid 3pPickups: Bacchus Original SCC-1 (×2), MRH-1 Alnico VControls: Master Vol, 2 Tone, 5-Way Selector SwitchHardware Finish: ChromeCase/Gig Bag: Bacchus Gig BagYear of manufacture: 2018 (approx.)Country of manufacture: JapanWeight: 7 lbs 3 oz

Price: 925 USD

Location: Phoenix, Arizona

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