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felineguitars

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We seem to have been doing so many Feline Lions that people might be forgiven for thinking we don't do anything else.

Here is proof if it were needed that we do do make other shapes
(warning - this is a DOUBLE NGD!)

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These two have been lurking in our "On the bench section" for way too long
Anyway one of our previous custom build customers who already has two of our beauties was looking for a hardtail strat and saw that we had one being built and asked if we would finish it off for him in a colour of his choice.

Here is what he asked us for and we nailed it exactly right for him.

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And whilst we were sending stuff to be painted we thought why not get that Tabby Hybrid we had in the works up to speed as well and do it the same colour. I already knew we were going to fit a tortoiseshell pickguard - custom made with a tele pickup in the bridge position, and thought the tortoiseshell would look great on the aged white finish.

Our Tabby Hybrid is a subtle melding together of Tele and strat shapes. The body is about 70% tele but the lower horn is closer to a strat one - so we could drop a regular strat pickguard in place. Add some strat like contours and the comfort level increases a lot

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There are some similarities in spec in terms of timber but also some differences too

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I guess I should share some specs for the two axes too

Hardtail S type - by customer request and sold!
Alder Body
No - neck plate - carved heel but not quite the full rounded version as we often do as neck was originally done to be completely stock before we used it on his project
Maple neck with rosewood fingerboard
25.5" scale with Dunlop 6155 frets (9.5" radius board)
Sperzel machineheads
Earvana shelf nut for improved intonation
Hipshot hardtail bridge - through body stringing
Dunlop strap locks
Pickguard is loaded with BKP Irish Tour pickups
CRL5 way switch and switchcraft jack
Pots are BKP/CTS 280k with a BKP/Jensen 0.022uF cap on the tone control
Supplied with Hiscox case

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Tabby Hybrid - made for stock and available at ?1799
Alder Body
No - neck plate - all access carved heel
Maple neck with rosewood fingerboard
25.5" scale with Dunlop 6155 frets (9.5" radius board)
Sperzel machineheads
Earvana shelf nut for improved intonation
Fender modern 2 point tremolo (we liked it and had one in stock so we thought - why not use it)
Dunlop strap locks
Pickguard is loaded with BKP pickups:
Bridge pickup is BKP Boss
Middle and neck pickups are BKP Mothers Milk
CRL5 way switch and switchcraft jack
Pots are BKP/CTS 280k with a Vitamin Q 0.022uF cap on the tone control
Push pull pot on 2nd tone control allows mixing of bridge and neck pickups in all positions other than position 3

Supplied with Hiscox case

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