FRET-KING COUNTRY SQUIRE MUSIC ROW & ELISE CUSTOM
FRET-KING COUNTRY SQUIRE MUSIC ROW & ELISE CUSTOM£749 & £979
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What You Need To Know
1 These are designed by Trev Wilkinson, aren’t they?
Yes and no. Fret-King guitars were designed exclusively by Trev until 2018 when his relationship with long-time distributor John Hornby Skewes (who acquired Fret-King in 2008) “changed to one of greater independence,” we’re told, “with the JHS Fret-King team taking on the design mantle and continuing to work with Trev on specific projects and co-operating in the incorporation of Wilkinson-designed pickups and hardware for Fret-King.”
2 I recognise these designs…
The Elise started out in the Vintage Advance range of the mid-Noughties as the AV3. It then resurfaced a couple of years later in the Fret-King Black Label range as a Gordon Giltrap signature, with the six-in-line headstock you see here.
3 Still Wilkinson hardware?
Yes! The pickups (rebranded Fret-King here) are Wilkinson designs, except the Country Squire’s dual series-linked single coils. You’ll see ‘Wilkinson’ stamped into the baseplates of the Elise ’buckers.
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