In 2013 the prototype for the Butter was given the name that this model now bears by Kurt Rosenwinkel. This guitar has a 14 4/5 inch lower bout and a body depth of 1 3/4 inches, giving the guitar a very comfortable feel for most players. The body is made with a carved spruce top and carved maple back with laminated maple sides, all finished in nitrocellulose lacquer. That makes it sound very much like hollowbody guitar construction, but it actually has a maple center block. The combination helps this guitar retain a gorgeous singing clean tone, but it also resists feedback well, allowing great overdriven tones as well. It was certainly designed with jazz in mind, but this guitar is capable of so much more.
The neck is one piece maple with an ebony fretboard. The neck has a great, full C-shaped carve with only a slight taper which feels very comfortable to play for a long time. The action is low and fast with all notes ringing out clearly at all frets. With the neck pickup (USA Kent Armstrong Alnico III 12-pole humbucker) this guitar gives a remarkable electric archtop tone (seriously, think Wes Montgomery - Bumpin on Sunset kind of a tone). I was pleasantly surprised by how well a semi-hollow can do this. I believe it's the closest to an electric archtop that I've ever heard in a semi-hollow. The bridge pickup with the Alnico V magnet has a more rock oriented tone, not surprisingly and sounds fantastic too.
The guitar is in excellent condition with only very light signs of use. The frets show essentially no evidence of wear and the finish shows only some extremely light surface scratches and a couple of very small finish chips near one f-hole.
Weight - 8.6 pounds
Nut width - 1.73 inches
1st fret depth - 0.9 inches
10th fret depth - 0.97 inches
Scale length - 24.75 inches
The guitar comes with the original gig bag which looks nearly new.
Ships free in the United States and for reasonable rates worldwide.
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$3,499.00Price
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