The Contender 290 has a pair of 9A5 pickups for fat, raw, and bluesy tones with enough bite. A strategic chamber under the pickguard increases resonance and reduces weight. Classically retro, but the offset body and six-in-line headstock give the guitar a modern feel. Meet the Contender: Reverend Guitars’ flat-top, single-cut set neck guitar.
The pots are stamped "137 6502" (CTS January 1965). Stud bar bridge/tailpiece with pre-set ridges and factory Gibson short Vibrola tailpiece with walrus tooth tip. Gold plastic bell-shaped knobs with metal tops. Four controls (two volume, two tone) on the lower treble bout, plus three-way slide selector switch on the upper treble side of pickguard. Three-layer (white/black/white) plastic pickguard with a "Firebird" emblem painted on in red on the upper bass side. Two black soapbar P-90 pickups with outputs of 8.10k and 7.90k.
"Announced in Spring 1963, the original Firebird series was conceived as an attempt to produce less conventional electrics likely to appeal to Fender players. The instrument vaulted Fender into the mainstream of electric guitar, with gorgeous features and smart innovations including an ash body with a translucent blonde nitrocellulose finish, sturdy maple neck with rear. This guitar can only be described as NOS (new old stock) and is most probably the finest example extant.Fender changed the music world forever in October 1950 with the first dual-pickup electric Spanish guitarthe Broadcaster. With the original hang tag ("FB-I"), case keys, and bill of sale, dated July 9, 1966. Housed in the original Gibson rectangular black hardshell case with checkered cloth lining (9.50). One of the first of the "non-reverse" Firebirds to appear in mid to late 1965.
Tom Anderson Guitars Dual Truss Full Length Neck
By late 1963, production models were released with a stronger 9-piece lamination and a smaller squared-off heel. The early samples are characterized by a 2-piece full length neck and a convex heel where the neck blends into the body. The 'reverse' Firebirds) share the same body specifications and differ only in fretboard style, electronics and hardware.The original Firebird electrics are primarily characterized by: a neck-through-body construction a reverse body shape with extended lower horn a reverse peghead with the treble E tuner nearest to the nut banjo-style tuners with rearwards buttons and they are all equipped with mini-humbuckers built without adjustable polepieces.
Stunning figured necks which feature 2 x carbon fibre rods and a dual truss "The Firebirds flew. 2009-10 SP Game Used Edition /5 Glenn Anderson Brian Leetch Bob Bourne.The level of hardware and pickups matches the amazing build quality and attention to detail of these killer guitars Bare Knuckle Silo hand-wound pickups, Hipshot hardtail bridge with matching open-gear tuners, Graph Tech Tusq nuts. 198-199).2007 Donruss Elite Throwback Threads TT-44 047/100 TOM BRADY / LEINART Jersey. Duchossoir, Gibson Electrics - The Classic Years, pp. The 'non-reverse' Firebirds) was announced" (A.R.
Than what you'd find on most PRS electric guitars, and PRS's double action truss rod (accessible from the front of the headstock for ease of use. They were gone by 1969" (Walter Carter, Gibson Guitars: 100 Years of an American Icon, p. And on the lower two models, single-coil soapbar pickups were substituted for the Firebird-style humbuckers: The only thing that was really fixed was the Firebirds' goose. The neck-through was replaced by a glued-in neck. But then Fender complained that the Firebird infringed on its patented offset-waist body design, so the body was changed to a non-reversed shape and made shorter and fatter-looking. The first fix was understandable: putting the tuners on the bass side of the headstock for easier access.
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