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Nacho Guitars 50’s Blackguard P90
Black #1389

Art.Nr. NG25BGP90-1389

Another masterpiece by our great friend “el maestro de los Blackguards” Nacho Baños. We had many Black- and White Guard Telecasters over the last decades and always admired Nacho’s work – he probably is the world most respected expert for those magical 50s 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, unique and artisan-made tributes of the original design with and tone and feel that you can’t get in modern mass production. A big step above other brands high end models with a lot more actual 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. The rest has not been spec’d by us. We left this open for the Maestro himself. Nachos favorite. Medium C profile neck – 3,31 Kg / 7 Pounds 5 Oz

At a
Glance

Neck date is TG 3/6/52. Control Cavity tape reads Gloria 5/19/52:

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"/0,93" depth at 1/12 fret; 1,65"/2,02" width at 1/12 fret:

Very lightweight example at 3,31 Kg / 7 Pounds 5 Oz:

Early 50s Standard style bridge with brass saddles, serial number 1389 stamped on bridge plate:

Aged Black 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 8,3k ohms. Bridge pickup reads 10,19k 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 standards:

It comes with a rectangular tweed mid 50s style hard case (not aged):

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