Micro-Frets Signature Semi-Hollow Body Electric Guitar , c. 1970
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Micro-Frets Signature Model Semi-Hollow Body Electric Guitar, c. 1970, made in Fredrick, Maryland, serial # 2451, cherry lacquer finish, maple body and neck; rosewood fingerboard, black gig bag case.
Some of the most unique and original American guitars of the late 1960's and early 1970's came out of Frederick, Maryland, where the small Micro-Frets company built their beautifully engineered if slightly oddball fretted offerings. This guitar, a second series Signature Model is a thin hollow body instrument with acoustic chambers routed out of the solid wood body halves which are joined at the center of the rim.
This was one of the company's more conventional instruments, with symmetrical double cutaway body finished in a cherry lacquer. It carries many of the firm's trademark white plastic-encased pickups and the patented Micro-Nut, which allows harmonic compensation at the headstock. This guitar uses the company's elaborate Calibrato trem system, designed to allow the strings to remain in tune when the the vibrato is used, and a fully-adjustable bridge unit. The maple neck is natural with a thick unbound dot-inlaid rosewood fingerboard. The controls-tone, volume, pickup select and an extra tone modification switch are carried on the bi-level top-mounted pickguard. Tuners are the original openback strip Waverlys with metal buttons and the sculpted space-age headstock also carries the brand logo and model name.
This is a very well-made and fine playing guitar with a slim, comfortable neck and very responsive pickups. The sound is crisp and hi-fi with surprising depth when needed; the tonal range is impressive. A number of prominent country artists endorsed the Micro-Frets line in the late 1960's including Carl Perkins. Micro-Frets may have had a fairly short history but the high-quality, well engineered instruments they left behind are very fine examples of American guitar ingenuity and worthy of the attention of both players and collectors.
Overall length is 42 in. (106.7 cm.), 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 23 3/4 in. (603 mm.). Width of nut is 1 5/8 in. (41 mm.). Very clean with only some light wear. All original except two tiny screw holes just in front of the neck pickup from what looks like a possible different pickup was added at some point-the original is currently back on. No other changes or associated rout to the body, except the volume pot was replaced long ago. An excellent playing and sounding guitar, typical of these hugely under-appreciated instruments. Excellent Condition.
Some of the most unique and original American guitars of the late 1960's and early 1970's came out of Frederick, Maryland, where the small Micro-Frets company built their beautifully engineered if slightly oddball fretted offerings. This guitar, a second series Signature Model is a thin hollow body instrument with acoustic chambers routed out of the solid wood body halves which are joined at the center of the rim.
This was one of the company's more conventional instruments, with symmetrical double cutaway body finished in a cherry lacquer. It carries many of the firm's trademark white plastic-encased pickups and the patented Micro-Nut, which allows harmonic compensation at the headstock. This guitar uses the company's elaborate Calibrato trem system, designed to allow the strings to remain in tune when the the vibrato is used, and a fully-adjustable bridge unit. The maple neck is natural with a thick unbound dot-inlaid rosewood fingerboard. The controls-tone, volume, pickup select and an extra tone modification switch are carried on the bi-level top-mounted pickguard. Tuners are the original openback strip Waverlys with metal buttons and the sculpted space-age headstock also carries the brand logo and model name.
This is a very well-made and fine playing guitar with a slim, comfortable neck and very responsive pickups. The sound is crisp and hi-fi with surprising depth when needed; the tonal range is impressive. A number of prominent country artists endorsed the Micro-Frets line in the late 1960's including Carl Perkins. Micro-Frets may have had a fairly short history but the high-quality, well engineered instruments they left behind are very fine examples of American guitar ingenuity and worthy of the attention of both players and collectors.
Overall length is 42 in. (106.7 cm.), 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 23 3/4 in. (603 mm.). Width of nut is 1 5/8 in. (41 mm.). Very clean with only some light wear. All original except two tiny screw holes just in front of the neck pickup from what looks like a possible different pickup was added at some point-the original is currently back on. No other changes or associated rout to the body, except the volume pot was replaced long ago. An excellent playing and sounding guitar, typical of these hugely under-appreciated instruments. Excellent Condition.