MI-6 Transparent Red Guitar
Limited Custom: $999.00
VINTAGE GUITAR APPROVED GEAR AWARD!
Vintage Guitar Review:
With their suave, 007-evoking name, these planks sport massive horns, rocket-shaped headstocks, round-edged bodies, and truly Space Age pickguard designs.
The 20th Anniversary MI-6 guitar sports a 25.5" scale with maple bolt-on neck and rosewood or maple fingerboard with 12" radius, 24 frets, and pearloid block inlays. This axe might appear heavy and unwieldy, but its body is lightweight mahogany and quite manageable.
Fans of unusual pickup configurations will dig the single/humbucker/single setup. It's actually two stacked, hum-canceling single-coils in the bridge and neck slots with a mini 'bucker in the middle. A five-way selector controls them, along with equally unusual stacked Volume and Tone knobs. The MI-6 neck is fast and shredular, with low fretboard action and a modern D-shaped carve.
Plugged in, the MI-6 is a rockin' machine. True to form, its hum-canceling pickups are dead quiet, threading the needle between the desire for retro twang and modern silence. The middle humbucker delivers a sweet midrange bit of honk with some neck fatness, while the single-coils offer a little quack, though not full-on St**t tone... The pickups sound spunky and fresh.
Shipping: $99 U.S. $299 international
Specs:
Body Material:
Light Weight Mahogany
Body Shape:
MI-6
Body Color:
Rally Red Transparent
Body Finish:
High Gloss Poly
Neck Radius:
12"
Bridge/Tailpiece:
Tune-O-Matic Style with Stop Tailpiece
Pickups:
Neck - stacked hum canceling single coil
Middle - cover mini humbucker
Bridge - stacked hum canceling single coil
Controls:
Single Stacked Chrome Volume / Tone
Bridge:
Tune-O-Matic style ABR
Switch:
5-Position
Scale Length:
25.5"
Tuners:
Chrome Locking Tuners
Nut:
1 5/8" (41.28mm) TUSQ Nut
Neck Width:
2 3/16"
Body Width:
1.75"
Strings:
DR 10-46 Gauge
Frets:
24 Jumbo Polished
