Description

The core of Gene Baker's SL Deluxe design is simple in theory - take the best aspects of a Stratocaster and a Les Paul and combine them. While other builders like Paul Reed Smith have worked from similar concepts - Fender meets Gibson - b3 guitars have a decidedly more vintage feel and tone vs a PRS (makes sense given that Gene was a Master Builder at the Fender Custom Shop and also spent time at Gibson's Custom Shop - he has intimate knowledge of what makes great instruments from those brands tick).

This gorgeous, lightly relic'd Dark Burst SL Deluxe features a 4/5A flame maple top, hollow mahogany body (sans F hole), mahogany neck w/a rosewood board, 59 carve (.87"-.95", soft V), 12" radius, trapezoid inlays, Lollar Imperial humbuckers, TonePros bridge/tailpiece, 24.625" scale, and a 1 11/16" nut. 

Gibson players will no doubt recognize these specs as the basic "recipe" for a Les Paul style guitar. For all intents and purposes, this is a Les Paul (save for its hollowbody construction) - but - its quite a bit more comfortable with better balance, a tummy cut, effortless upper fret access, and it weighs in at a whopping 6 1/2 lbs! 

The Lollar Imperials deliver a slightly scooped midrange, medium output, and a clear, articulate top end that excels at both clean and overdriven tones. You can easily pull gorgeous, almost ES-335-like clean tones out of this guitar in addition to killer overdriven tones (there's also a coil tap via the push/pull tone knob).

A fine example of modern and vintage aesthetic brought together by a legendary Master Builder - what else could you want? Priced with hardshell case.

Specs

• Mahogany body, hollow
• Dark Burst, light aging
  
• Mahogany neck
• Rosewood fingerboard
• 59 Carve - .89"-.98", soft V
• Cream binding
  
• 24.625" scale length
• 12" Radius
• 6105 frets, 22
• 1.687" nut width
• Lollar Imperial Humbuckers
  
• Volume, Volume, Tone, 3-way
• Lightly Aged Nickel hardware
• TonePros TOM bridge
• Dunlop straplocks
• Grover Kluson tuners
• Strung with 10's
• G&G Hardshell Case
• SN 21 079
• 6lbs 8oz