Benedetto Fratello Archtop Honey Blonde
Item: FE3959500506
Benedetto Fratello Archtop Honey Blonde
Item: FE3959500506
Crafted exclusively for the discriminating jazz traditionalist, the Benedetto Fratello is considered the benchmark archtop guitar. Featuring premium tonewoods imported from around the world, its beauty lies in the details. Custom–designed, mother–of–pearl stylized block inlays; Benedetto’s acclaimed binding on its European spruce top, maple neck and ebony fingerrest; and its cello–style ebony tailpiece are standard fare on this guitar. Even its S–6 suspended, mini–humbucking pickup has been designed to mount to the pickguard—keeping the top free and clean for superior tonality. This Fratello was built under Bob Benedetto's close supervision at the Guild Custom Shop in Nashville, TN—ensuring an inimitable instrument of the highest caliber. The serial number label is hand signed by Bob himself.
This is "New Old Stock" from 2001. This fine instrument has been tucked away in it's case since that time.
Specifications:
- Body: Archtop, 17" lower bout, 3" body depth, Venetian cutaway
- Top: Carved, hand–graduated and tuned master grade European spruce
- Back: Carved, hand–graduated master grade European flamed maple
- Sides: Master grade European flamed maple
- Bracing: X–braced European spruce
- Neck: Select American flamed maple
- Fingerboard: Ebony, 12" radius, large traditional mother–of–pearl inlays
- Width at Nut: 1 ¾", bone
- Scale: 25"
- Frets: 21
- Bridge: Ebony, adjustable with black wheels and posts
- Tailpiece: Ebony with Benedetto tail adjuster
- Pickup: 1 Benedetto S–6 (suspended)
- Controls: Volume mounted on fingerrest
- Tuners: Schaller gold with ebony buttons
- Fingerrest: Ebony
- Finish: Gloss nitrocellulose lacquer
- Color: Honey Blonde