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2025 Nachoguitars Blackguard P90
Blond #1243

Art.Nr. NG25TSTYLE1243

Another masterpiece by our great friend “el maestro de los Blackguards” Nacho Baños. We had many Black- and White Guard Originals over the last decades and always admired Nacho’s work – he probably is the world most respected expert for those magical 50s Fender guitars, well known for his books “The Blackguard Book” and the recent “The Pinecaster Book”.
With an amazing attention to detail he also creates his own versions, replicas of the original design with and tone and feel that you can’t get in modern mass production. A big step above the recent Fender Masterbuilt models with a lot more vintage feel. It takes someone who really knows the old guitars to be able to do this. We’re glad to have our own little run of guitars we spec’d together with Nacho – the essence of the Blackguard myth at a way more affordable price but with a lot of the mojo of the originals!
This guitar has a great feature: a juicy P90 in neck position. Just like the one played by the incredible Julian Lage. The rest has not been spec’d by us. We left this open for the Maestro himself. Nachos favorite. Medium C profile neck.

At a
Glance

Body date is Davis 3/6/52. Neck date is Thaddio 3/6/51. Control cavity tape reads Mary 2/7/52:

Maple neck, 9.5” fret board radius with Medium 95/47 frets, early to mid 1950s style medium C profile neck, very comfortable to play and easy for string bending:

Neck Dimensions are 0,83"/0,91" depth at 1/12 fret; 1,66"/2,01" width at 1/12 fret.:

This neck has a very authentic vintage feel and a very comfortable grip:

Very lightweight example at 3,23 Kg / 7 Pounds 2 Oz:

Early 50s Standard style bridge with brass saddles, serial number 1243 stamped on bridge plate:

Aged Early 1950s Blonde Butterscotch nitro lacquer finish on ash body with plenty of dings and wear marks mostly around the edges. Plenty of playing wear is present on fingerboard and back of neck:

Early 50s style hardware and vintage style early 1950s bridge pickup and mid 1950s style, soap bar P90 neck pickup:

Neck pickup reads 7,96k ohms. Bridge pickup reads 9,65k ohms:

Electronic configuration includes the standard post-67 scheme, with neck pu alone at front, both pickups in paralell in the middle position and bridge pickup alone at back, incorporating tone control in all three positions:

The guitar comes with a black phenolic resin pickguard which has been cut, laquered and aged to early 1950s:

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