Key Features
- Immense tonal variety and smooth playability
- Delve into an abundance of tones through dual custom pickups and electronics
- Riff with unrivalled ease on a lightly oiled, soft "C" shaped hard rock maple neck
- Get on the road straight away thanks to an included luxury gig bag
Fret King Country Squire Classic Tonemaster, Gloss Black Overview
The Fret King Country Squire Classic Tonemaster is an instrument that offers highly versatile and complex tones, despite its deceptively simple appearance. Equipped with two Wilkinson designed pickups and custom five way switching, the Classic Tonemaster boasts an extraordinary wealth of tones.
Combine its tonal fluidity with a sleek Country Squire style body that's carved for enhanced player comfort, and you'll find it hard to put this down. Certainly, once you've riffed on the lightly oiled, soft "C" shape maple neck that provides precise and fast fretting, you'll be hooked on the Country Squire Tonemaster. And that's not to mention the rock-solid stability afforded by Wilkinson tuners and WTB bridge, designed to give your strings clear, resounding action with tonnes of sustain.
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Full Description
View Full DescriptionUnique pickups with a unique sound
Sporting two custom Trev Wilkinson designed pickups, the Country Squire Tonemaster offers you a highly versatile performance. Equipped with a Tone Meister Sixty stock-style single coil at the bridge, it generates increased tonal power and massive amounts of sustain thanks to its custom construction. That consists of a special winding process and symmetrical staggered pole pieces to grant you a blossoming voice that's abundantly clear.
Over at the neck sits the Fret-King Tone Meister A2C neck that can draw out the rich, sparkling twang you'd expect from classic single coils. Excellent for replicating the musical blues from '50s and '60s, the A2C neck features wide spacings and a vintage voicings to get you in the mood for retro roars.
Custom circuitry expands your tonal options
To complement the distinctive pickups, Fret-King have installed a broad tonal palette into the Tonemaster through its unique circuitry. A five-way selector switch sits on an ergonomically angled switch plate to give you easily accessible options when changing up your sound.
The five positions allow you to experience a wide glut of sonics, from edgy, driven blues tones through a highly resonant, hollow body style chimes. In addition, there's out of phase "quack" and "pluck" cadences to explore, not to mention a contemporary style twin single coil and cut middle position to sprinkle your song with harmonic variety.
Quality playing feel
Ultra-responsive. It's the kind of playing feel that makes it hard to put down because it's just so addictive. Boasting a lightly oiled, hard rock maple neck that's carved into a soft "C" backshape, the Country Squire is supremely comfortable. It provides a sleek, frictionless feel that makes manoeuvring around the scales an easy task.
That's accompanied by a separate layer of hard rock maple for smooth and seamless fretting. Shaped into 10" radius for a modern approach, it's suited to both complex chords and expressive lead runs. Complete with medium profile, high durability nickel fret wires, you'll an enjoy an accurate action that's eminently comfortable.
Choice hardware selection for a reliable performance
Guaranteeing you a stable performance. The Country Squire Classic Tonemaster remarkable tones and deft playability are backed up by a choice selection of hardware to ensure consistency every time you play.
At the headstock are set of Wilkinson WJ05 machine heads to provide quick and accurate tune-ups with maximum stability. And beneath those sits a self-lubricating Graph Tech nut which ensures a friction-free hold on your strings, meaning every string will ring out with a clear vocality, free from any irritating buzz.
And at the base is a unique Wilkinson WTB bridge that serves to elevate your tone and enhance the stability of your performance. Designed in a string-through fashion to ensure a pronounced sustain, and hosting barrel style natural brass saddles that are pre-intonated for spot on tuning, it provides the dependable action you need to perform at your best.
A sturdy, player friendly body
Constructed from three pieces of selected American alder, the Fret King Country Squire is light, nimble, and supremely resonant. The characteristics of alder help transfer all the detail of your string vibrations to the pickups, enabling the full tone of your playing to be heard through the amp.
And aside from its tonal qualities, Fret King have made sure that this body is sculpted to accommodate any player. Ergonomic contours make it easy to hold, while a reduced neck profile allows for unhindered access at the upper frets.
Gig bag included
Get on the road without any hassle. Keeping your instrument pristine is the priority for any performer, and Fret King understands this! That's why the Country Squire Classic Tonemaster includes a luxury gig bag to keep it factory fresh throughout its lifetime.
Specifications
- Product Name: Fret King Country Squire Classic Tonemaster, Gloss Black
- Product Code: FKV25BK
Body
- Style: Country Squire Classic Tonemaster
- Material: Three-Piece American Select Alder
- Colour: Gloss Black
Neck & Fretboard
- Neck Material: Hard Rock Maple
- Fretboard Material: Hard Rock Maple
- Neck Finish: Lightly Oiled
- Neck Shape: Soft "C"
- Neck Construction: Bolt On
- Fretboard Radius: 10"
- No. of Frets: 22
- Fret Size: Medium Profile
- Fret Material: Nickel Silver
- Scale Length: 25.5" / 648mm
Hardware
- Bridge: Wilkinson WTB Bridge w/ String Through
- Nut: Graph Tech
- Nut Width: 43mm
- Tuning Machines: Wilkinson WJ05 Machine Heads
Electronics
- Bridge Pickup: Tone Meister Sixty™
- Neck Pickup: Fret-King Tone Meister A2C™
- Switching: Five-Way Lever Switch
- Controls: Volume, Tone
Miscellaneous
- Accessories: Gig Bag Included
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