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Prototype Signature Series Stage Guitar
This is is a "stage" guitar made by me a couple years back. It has been on tour with Caedmons Call (played by Andrew Osenga), and also with Andrew Peterson for the past 7-9 months. This was a special series that bore my signature on the 12th fret and was a limited run of 4 guitars. It plays and sounds great. The neck is a very comfortable carve and nut width perfect for contemporary styles, strumming and fingerpicking. Unplugged it has a nice tone as well for a guitar that is only as thick as an electric guitar and no soundhole. The unplugged tone will surprise you, as it makes a great quite practice guitar when you do not want to disturbe anyone. Plugged in, however, it has a really big natural tone. Much more natural and acoustic like than any other guitar on the market that I've played or heard thanks to the design and the B-Band pickup. The body is crafted from honduran Mahogany and is totally hollow inside which also lends to the true acoustic tone plugged in. The guitar is really light and comfortable to play. The condition is very good. It only has one very small chip in the finish (about half the size as a pea, and in the black so it is really hard to spot, and does no detract from the overall beauty of the instrument. There is also a slight lighter colored mark near the edge of the bridge that happened while guling the bridge on, but it is also small and does not detract from the guitar. If you would like closer shots of the chip, and or the mark near the bridge let me know and I'll e-mail you the pictures. It does have some light scratches from picks and the like, but it is really light, and also is not very noticable at all. The finish is a durable urethane finish which adds to the ability to not scratch very much with a pick. This is the very first one of this model I made and it worked out so well I've made more since.

Guitar Specifications:

• Body Style: Stage Guitar
• Top wood: Mastergrade Quilted Maple
• Body wood: Honduran Mahogany
• Binding: Flame maple on neck and headstock
• Headplate: Ebony
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Neck: 5 piece Mahogany/Maple/rosewood/Maple/Mahogany
• Tuners:Gold Gotoh 510 w/Ebony buttons
• Fingerboard inlay: John Mayes Signature
• Nut and saddle: Bone
• Nut width: 1 23/32nds
• Saddle spacing: 2.220
• Bridge Pins: Ebony
• Bridge: Ebony
• Mayes Logo: Abalone
• Electronics: B-Band A2 with UST/AST
• Truss rod: Dual action
• Case: Professional wooden hardshell with arched top made by TKL
• Warranty: Lifetime warranty

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JohnM at MayesGuitars dot com