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Artist AT53 Mustard Relic Electric Guitar w/ Hand Made Pickups

The latest in our much-lauded range of TC-style guitars, the Artist AT53 pairs the best elements of vintage guitar design with modern features to bring you an instrument that straddles the line between innately familiar and excitingly new. With a classic-looking roasted maple neck finished with a comfortable satin feel, the high-grade locking tuners and rosewood fretboard (at a lightning-quick 14-inch radius), make for a guitar that belies its own old-world aesthetic. While the AT53 comes pre-battle worn, the nitrocellulose finish, a material used mainly on guitars crafted prior to the 1970s will wear and age just as you do. 

Having tested untold amounts of pickup options, we settled on a set of high-end, hand-made single coils wound by the Laohao workshop, a small team producing low-quantity batches of custom pickups to a frankly unbelievable standard. Paired with 500k pots, the AT53 sounds far brighter than its relic'd finish suggests! Every detail has been pored over with this one - a bone nut, copper foil shielding, a wheeled string tree and locking strap buttons are among a host of modern features that make this old battler anything but!

The Tech Features:

Brand: Artist

Model: AT53YLR

Scale Length: 648 mm / 25.5 Inches

Body Wood: Paulownia

Machine Heads: Locking Machine Heads

Finish: Nitrocellulose Mustard Relic

Neck: Quarter-Sawn Roasted Maple 21-22mm thickness with Satin Finish; C-Shape Neck

Fretboard: Rosewood

Frets: 22 Stainless Steel Frets

Nut: 42mm Bone

Fingerboard Radius: 14" (350mm)

Bridge: Vintage Style Bridge With Brass Saddles

Pickups: Laohao Hand Made Alnico V Single Coil Pickups with Copper Foil Shielded Cavity

  • Neck: 6.8K
  • Bridge: 8K

Features: 3-way Switch, String-Through Body, Strap Locks, Stainless Steel Frets, Copper Foil Shielded Control Cavity

Weight: 2.7-3.2kg / 6-7lbs

Optional Hard Cases: REC300, REC350, EC500

Optional Gig Bags: HGBAGST, BAGST

 

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Artist AT 53 Relic Telecaster

By: on 19 April 2024
After some initial broken strings, and tuning difficulties, it finally settled down and stabilised to a reliable standard. Lowered pick ups slightly. I was initially expecting to change out pick-ups at some stage, but very impressed so far. I am usually a neck pick up guy, but now I am absolutely in love with the bridge. This is so good. Neck and middle are good but just not as special as the bridge. Is the middle position traditionally noise cancelling on these? Because mine doesn't seem to be wired that way. Excellent feel, great vintage look and can't put it down. My USA Strat with Texas Specials is back now it's case!!

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