Green Label Corona 60.
No guitar range would be complete without paying homage to the most
famous double cutaway guitar shape of all time.
Making a guitar this shape is easy; however, knowing how to build
one from the inside out is a lesser-known skill!
Trev has owned many of these guitars and repaired many hundreds
more over the decades.
These years of knowledge and experience are the essence of Fret-King’s
‘authentic vintage construction’, and imbue his guitars
with that true ‘vintage vibe’.
Built with either a hand-selected, two-piece centre-jointed alder
or swamp ash body, the Fret-King Corona is a classic combination
of aesthetic and tonal perfection.
In keeping with the sixties tradition this model has a familiar
and comfortable shallow ‘C’ profile maple neck with
25 1/2“ scale length.
Available as standard with a rosewood fingerboard, or the option
of a one-piece maple neck with skunk stripe, both styles of neck
utilise a 10” fingerboard radius to facilitate easier string
bending, with a low, fast playing action.
By utilising an original spec, small diameter truss rod, there is
a much greater ratio of wood-to-metal, contributing to retaining
all that elusive ‘vintage tone’.
Add to this the extra benefit of hardware that keeps you in tune
and you have a truly rare instrument – one that really works
live, on stage or in the studio.
Superb quality Gotoh® tuners replicate
the style and light weight of the original Kluson® tuning keys. Height-adjustable tuning posts provide the perfect
break angle for each individual string to rest in the self-lubricating ‘Wilkaloid™’ top nut, ensuring absolute minimum
string friction.
These unique tuners also feature posts which lock automatically
as the strings are brought up to pitch, eliminating excess string
winds, making string changing a breeze and keeping your guitar in
tune even with heavy vibrato use.
Keeping a vintage guitar in tune can be a nightmare, so all Fret-King
Corona series guitars are fitted with the Wilkinson VSV high- performance
vintage vibrato system.
Built to exacting standards, the VSV really is the icing on the
cake.
Vibrato is a fundamental part of the performance of these guitars,
and you will not believe the tuning stability of the Wilkinson VSV,
and the Fret-King Corona.
The Corona 60 is fitted with Fret-King custom pickups with the classic
three-single-coil layout, in a balanced calibrated set, each with
staggered-height Alnico V polepieces mounted in authentic fibre
bobbins, wound for that classic ‘sparkle’, with a slightly
overwound bridge pickup to balance the output over the whole set.
‘Reverse wound, reverse polarity’ middle pickups give
hum cancelling in positions 2 and 4.
Corona
60 – £1,699.00
Corona
60
Vintique Gold 24 Carat – £1,849.00
Options
Available
One piece maple neck/fingerboard £79.00
Gold Hardware £129.00
Vintique gold pickguard 24 carat £59.00
Left hand version £159.00
Other
options available on request.
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