Black Death

DESCRIPTION

In 1984, a new range of techniques totally redefined rock guitar virtuosity for the 80s and 90s.

While blues had been the basis for rock music from the 1950s to later 70s, guitarists were now introduced to classical elements like harmonic minor scales, modes, pedalpoints, full range scale patterns, arpeggios, and high speed alternate picking.

As part of Exlusive’s “Legendary Axes” series, we pay tribute to this style of playing with a highly detailed guitar equipped with all the best features for playing that style of music.

As a part of our "legendary" series, we pay hommage to that point in time.




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SPECIFICATIONS

SCALE 25-1/2
CONSTRUCTION Bolt on
NUT Brass
BODY Alder
NECK Canadian hard rock maple
NECK THICKNESS 20,5mm @ 1st fret, 23mm @ 12th fret
NECK FINISH Satin
FRETBOARD Canadian hard rock maple
FRETBOARD FINISH Satin
FRETWIRE Dunlop 6000
BRIDGE Wilkinson WV6
TUNERS Frudua Locking Tuners
PICKUPS Dimarzio HS3 bridge + Dimarzio HS4 (formerly YJM™) neck
CONTROLS Volume
SWITCHING 3-way (not connected in middle position).
COLOUR Vintage white
HARDWARE Chrome

The Shredder features an alder body finished in vintage white.


FEATURES

A new design neck heel allows total access to the last frets. The neck is tightened with 5 screws thus delivering the best tone transmission.

Great care is put in the neck pocket fitting. A tight fit neck joint is indeed very important for the strings' vibration to finely transmit the wood tone to the from the nut to the bridge and to the pickups.

The neck is the most wooden crucial point in the electric guitars tone chain. All Exlusive instruments' necks are made of resonant hard rock maple coming from Canada and are satin finished to offer a very smooth and fast feel.

A deep scalloping allows your hands to fly fast on the Canadian hard rock maple fretboard. Frets are Dunlop 6000.

Professionally slotted and refined brass nut.

The Shredder features a Dimarzio HS3 at bridge and a Dimarzio HS4 (formerly YJM™) in neck position. No middle pickup here to respect the original design and get more sustain. Middle pickup is disconnected for minimum signal path and greater tone.

The Shredder is equipped with a new Wilkinson tremolo which features some cool innovations typical of high teck or "guitar doctor modified" tremolos. The strings are sunken into the sustain block with the ball end getting as close as possible to the bridge plate and saddle.

This, along with the use of a precisely slotted brass nut, roller string tree and staggered locking tuners, dramatically increases strings and tuning stability when tremolo is in use. The saddles are kept stable in place by the massive bridge structure and the sustain block is steel made in the best "vintage" tradition

Front view of the Shredder headstock with staggered locking tuners and roller string tree.

The Shredder is equipped with a set of new Frudua locking tuners. Frudua locking tuners gathers all the most high end locking tuners features in the market all in just one item. 20:1 gear ratio, comfortable and immediate to use rear locking design and 2+2+2 staggered height posts, meaning that the E and B posts are lower than the G and D posts which are lower than the A and low E posts. This allows the proper nut angle and lowest friction on nut. They are also available for you as a replacement part for your guitar.

Due to continuous improvements features and specifications may change without prior notice.



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