Micro-Frets Signature Semi-Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1970)
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Item #4573
Micro-Frets Signature Model Semi-Hollow Body Electric Guitar, c. 1970, made in Fredrick, Maryland, brown lacquer finish, maple body and neck; rosewood fingerboard, original black hard shell 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. The Signature was one of the company's more conventional looking instruments, with symmetrical double cutaway body finished in an overall medium brown. 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 is a hardtail guitar; many Micro-frets instruments use the company's elaborate Calibrato trem system, but this Signature has a simple tailpiece flange on the 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 (although the company has seen a recent revival attempt) 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.). 100% original down to the last screw; the only visible damage are a few small dings in the back. Overall hardly any visible wear-appears to have hardly ever been played. The original owner's initials (?) are stamped in the back plate; nicely done, looks like possible factory work. A truly exceptional example with a very clean original rectangular hard case. Excellent + Condition.
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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. The Signature was one of the company's more conventional looking instruments, with symmetrical double cutaway body finished in an overall medium brown. 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 is a hardtail guitar; many Micro-frets instruments use the company's elaborate Calibrato trem system, but this Signature has a simple tailpiece flange on the 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 (although the company has seen a recent revival attempt) 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.). 100% original down to the last screw; the only visible damage are a few small dings in the back. Overall hardly any visible wear-appears to have hardly ever been played. The original owner's initials (?) are stamped in the back plate; nicely done, looks like possible factory work. A truly exceptional example with a very clean original rectangular hard case. Excellent + Condition.
