Like all the Aristides guitars, the entire SSS 060 guitar including the 25.5-inch scale neck is made of a single piece of Arium and includes a choice of Seymour Duncan or Bare Knuckle single-coil pickups in the bridge, middle and neck positions. The five-way switch and single volume and tone controls offer a wide variety of pickup tone configurations.
The C-shaped neck is 1.65-inches wide at the nut and available with either a maple, rosewood or ebony fingerboard and 24 medium, jumbo frets. Hardware is available in chrome, black or gold finishes and includes a Hipshot Contour tremolo, Hipshot’s Grip-Lock tuners and Schaller strap locks. Each guitar is set up with a Graphtech Black TUSQ nut, D’Addario Nickel Wound XL 10-56 strings and outfitted with an anti-theft security microchip.
The Aristides Instruments SSS 060 guitar sells for $2,840 MSRP and is available in matte black, white high gloss (pictured), cream white matte, deep sky blue or baby blue matte metallic finishes, the guitar ships in a Gator XL hard case.
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