STVDIO Series
Country Squire

Just like the Country Squire Semitone, the Country Squire Classic will appeal to players of virtually any style. The ultra simple, single cutaway, bolt-on neck guitar that first appeared at the turn of the 1950’s lends itself to a number of musical styles.

Since the glorious story of rock’n’roll began, guitars like the Country Squire have been at the heart of so many musical genres; country, soul, blues, rock, jazz... you name it.

The Country Squire range is Fret-King’s nod to the guitar that started it all!

With the Fret-King Country Squire Classic, we have taken the liberty of respectfully raising the bar, with a 22-fret, one-piece maple neck with medium jumbo frets and a deliciously comfortable 60s shallow ‘C’ shaped profile.

The neck utilises a 10” fingerboard radius to facilitate easier string bending, with a deliciously fast and slinky playing action.

By utilising an original spec small diameter truss rod, there is a much greater ratio of wood to metal, all contributing to keeping the vintage tone you would expect from this style of guitar.

There’s a lot of mystique about original three-saddle bridges and why they sound so good. It’s simple really – with only three saddles there are two strings to hold each saddle down firmly, so much less of the strings’ energy is dissipated trying to stop the saddles moving, greatly enhancing sustain.

The principal drawback of the original design, however, was poor intonation.

With the addition of the fully intonatable Wilkinson WT3 multi-adjustable three-saddle bridge, that unmistakable tone is now achievable; and perfect intonation, too!

Improving on a classic original is hard to do, but we just had to try.

Fitted with later 60s style design pickups, with raised pole pieces and slightly underwound to 6K Ohms, the Country Squire Classic offers plenty of bite. This model adds the additional versatility of the 3 single-pickup layout alongside the instantly recognisable tonality of the iconic bridge-mounted single coil pickup. The 5 way switch gives a standard varied selection of the 3 pickups, with an added ‘push-pull’ tone pot giving you the bonus of bridge + neck pickups together, regardless of the position of the 5 way switch.

As well as all the enhancements above, the Fret-King Country Squire Classic features a two-piece centre-jointed swamp ash body, and, as the name suggests, is as real as it gets!

Specification
Body: Swamp ash with distressed laguna blue finish.
Neck/Fingerboard: 22 fret neck maple fretboard.
Pickups & Controls: 3 Fret-King ‘vintage-voiced’ single coil pickups, master volume & tone.
Pickguard/Hardware: Custom aged relic mint green pickguard. Aged hardware.

All other specs as Country Squire.

THIS GUITAR WAS PURCHASED BY
SHANE CLOUTIER OF THE SHANE CLOUTIER BAND.

In his day job, Cloutier runs the Cloutier Musical Inmstruments store in his native Canada. A Fret-king and Vintage guitars dealer, the store can be found here:

Cloutier Musical Instruments
201 Hurontario Street, Collingwood,
ON L9Y 2M1, Canada
Tel: +1 705-446-6837

SERIAL NO. FKS2071

PRICE: SOLD (Shane Cloutier - See below)

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