Gibson Bill Kelliher Explorer Electric Guitar - Goldburst Finish
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When your tones as massive as that of Mastodons Bill Kelliher, you need a guitar with equally mammoth power. For both looks and sound, the iconic Gibson Explorer is a perfect fit: this radically angled electric was light-years ahead of its time when it was introduced in 1958, and its still the first choice of many of the worlds fiercest rockers.
The Bill Kelliher Golden Axe Explorer from Gibson USA brews select tonewoods into a timelessly revolutionary body style. With powerful LACE Nitro Hemi humbucking pickups and classic hardware, this is a guitar befitting Kellihers status in the world of metal. Trapezoid fingerboard inlays, gold-plated hardware, a hot-stamped Golden Axe truss-rod cover, cream pickguard with hot-stamped Mastodon logo, and Bills choice of Go-Gold Burst finish in high-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer complete this stunning package.
Body and neck
Mahogany has a long history as a tonewood with Gibson, and it provides the perfect core for the Bill Kelliher Golden Axe Explorer. Crafted from solid, unchambered mahogany, the Explorer-style body yields plenty of richness and depth, along with excellent sustain. The solid mahogany neck is carved to Bills preference of slim Explorer profile measuring 0.800 at the 1st fret and 0.850 at the 12th, and topped with a solid rosewood fingerboard with 22 medium-jumbo frets and a PLEK-cut Corian nut. The bodys top and fingerboard are trimmed in elegant cream binding.
Pickups and electronics
Bill Kelliher demands the utmost in power and versatility from his pickups, which is why his Golden Axe Explorer is equipped with two powerful LACE Nitro Hemi humbuckers. These extremely powerful contemporary humbuckers excel at high-gain metal tones, with thumping lows and punchy, aggressive mids, yet retain outstanding clarity and sweet, bell-like highs. As a bonus, they are wired for coil-splitting to provide authentic single-coil tones, which can be used individually or in several combinations via a traditional three-way selector switch. A push-pull switch on the master volume control splits the bridge pickup, while the master tones switching splits the neck pickup.
Hardware
Ever since their introduction in 1954, Gibsons Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece have been acclaimed for their perfect marriage of solid sustain and efficient intonation. These classics answer the call perfectly on the Bill Kelliher Golden Axe Explorer, along with a set of high-quality Grover Mini tuners. All hardware, along with the strap buttons and pickup covers, is plated in gold.
Features
- Mahogany body with stunning Gold Burst finish
- Mahogany neck with Bill Kelliher's slim, fast profile
- Rosewood fingerboard with figured acrylic trapezoid inlays
- Pair of split-coil LACE Nitro Hemi humbucking pickups in the neck and bridge positions
- Mini Grover kidney tuners with 14:1 ratio
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