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“I'm
extremely proud to have a Fret-King with my name on it. The GW
plays great, looks great, feels great, stays in tune, and the
natural sustain is superb.”
Black
Label Corona 'GW'
With
a career spanning over four decades, Geoff has
featured in iconic, seminal rock bands like Crawler, where he
filled the shoes of the incomparable Paul Kossoff, he's been the
long-time guitar sound of Roger Chapman's band, and featured as
Procol Harum's lead guitarist since 1991. An in-demand and tasteful
player, Geoff's also worked with the likes of Eric Clapton, Sir
Paul McCartney, Bad Company, The Who, Kevin Ayers, Elkie Brooks,
Manfred Mann, Billy Ocean, and many others, so if anyone needed
a versatile, consistently high-performing guitar that cuts through
the mix, it's Geoff Whitehorn.
The 'GW' Corona is a thoughtful take on a classic, but with an
edge, and like Geoff's playing, is precise, melodic and articulate.
Sonically, with the somewhat unorthodox pickup combination of
a P90 in the neck position, a throaty single coil in the middle,
and a roaring Wilkinson 'Prizefighter’™ humbucker
in the bridge position, the GW covers an immense range of
fundamental tones.
With a control layout orthodox in appearance, but more comprehensive
than meets the eye, the GW has master tone for the neck and middle
pickups, and separate tone control for the bridge humbucker.
Add to this a ‘push-push’ switch on the neck/middle
pickup tone control which switches the neck and bridge pickup
together, as well as a second ‘push-push’ switch on
the bridge pickup tone control which taps the 'Prizefighter' to
single coil and as Geoff says, "if you can't find the sound
you want with this guitar, maybe it doesn't exist."
Specification
Body: two-piece centre-jointed
American alder body.
Neck: Canadian hard rock maple
Fingerboard: rosewood, 10” radius, 22 medium jumbo frets,
pearl dots
Scale: 25.5”/648mm.
Nut: Graphite
Pickup: Wilkinson
humbucker WP90B, Wilkinson WHS vintage voiced single coil and
WHHBCa ‘Prizefighter’
Controls: volume, two ‘push-push’ tone, and five way
lever switch.
Hardware: Wilkinson WVS bridge
Tuners: Wilkinson WJ07 E-Z Lok tuners.
Carry bag: included
FKV6GW– £629.00
Instrument supplied
in a genuine Fret-King luxury carry bag.
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