Jewel
The figured top and the soft lines: the Genesis you look at before you play it. One-piece mahogany under a maple chosen for its figure, and nothing else to distract you.
- Fucsia
- Tabacco
- Zafferano
- Vulcano
- Boreale
- Assenzio
- Carminio
- Ossidiana
- Alabastro
9 finishes available — and this is not a closed list
What sets it apart
One-piece mahogany
Not two halves glued down the middle: a single board, wide enough for a whole body. Far more of it ends up as offcuts, and in exchange there is no seam to interrupt the figure of the wood or the note as it falls away.
Five fretboards, five instruments
Pau ferro, ebony, pale moon, curly maple, rosewood. This is not an aesthetic choice in disguise: ebony attacks hard and dry, rosewood rounds things off, maple sits in between and stays bright. You choose the character; the colour comes after.
Luminlay markers
They charge up with light and stay visible once the stage goes dark. A detail you only notice when you need it — which is exactly when no other detail matters.
Photographs of Jewel
Pickguard version, on request
The top
The figure lifts as the shot travels up.
Eleven seconds from the body to the headstock, no editing. The figure in the maple does not hold still: it opens and closes depending on the angle the light catches it from, and it is the one thing about a figured top that a photograph cannot say. At the end comes the headstock, painted the same colour.
Specifications
What is settled, and what you settle.
It is the model
They do not change: they are what makes this a Jewel.
- Number of strings
- Six or seven strings
- Scale length
- 648 mm25.5 inches
- Fretboard radius
- 16″
- Neck width, six strings
- 43 mm at the nut · 57.2 mm at the last fret1.69 · 2.25 inches
- Neck width, seven strings
- 48 mm at the nut · 66 mm at the last fret1.89 · 2.60 inches
- Body
- One-piece select mahogany · Alder
- Frets
- 2.80 mm stainless steel jumbo
- Number of frets
- 24
- Pots
- 500 kΩ
- Truss rod
- Dual action, with two carbon fibre rodsThe rods can be left out on request
- Pickups
- De Gattis special edition
- Body finish
- Gloss polyurethane
- Fretboard finish
- Tru-Oil
- Case
- ABS hard caseIncluded
- Certificate of authenticity
- Numbered, dated and signed by handIncluded
You choose
Every line here is a conversation, not a drop-down.
- Neck
- Select mahogany · Curly maple · Wenge
- Fretboard
- Pau ferro · Ebony · Pale moon · Curly maple · Rosewood
- Pickguard
- None · PlasticOn request
- Nut
- Bone · Tusq
- Headstock
- 6 in line · 6 in line, reverse · 4 + 2 · 4 + 2, reverse · 3 + 3 · SlottedOn seven strings the shapes are 4 + 3 and 3 + 4 reverse
- Tuners
- Gotoh · Schaller
- Bridge
- Gotoh · Schaller
- Fret markers
- Mother of pearl · Abalone · Luminlay
- Neck joint
- Bolt-on · Set neck
- Neck finish
- Gloss · Satin
The switch
What it sounds like, in every position.
As standard
Neck
Neck + bridge
Bridge
Neck coil split
The first push-pull leaves the neck humbucker running on one coil: it brightens up without losing body, and in the middle position it moves close to the sound of two single-coils.
Neck
Neck + bridge
Bridge
Bridge coil split
The second push-pull does the same at the bridge, where it is needed more often: the attack stays, the humbucker’s compression does not.
Neck
Neck + bridge
Bridge
Both coils split
With both push-pulls up the instrument becomes a two single-coil guitar, and the middle position is the furthest it gets from where it started.
Neck
Neck + bridge
Bridge
And now
Carry on building it.
The green lines above are yours to decide. In the Custom Shop you pick them one by one, and at the end it is the luthier who writes back, not a form.