Offering a brand-new 2022
Edwinson Eclipse OM guitar, available for adoption to a good home. I built this guitar to bring to Tom Bowersox's B.I.G. show in New Braunfels TX. I've just returned home, and this guitar had a great debut and attracted quite a bit of lustful attention. I pulled out all the stops on this one, and it was played and enjoyed very enthusiastically by many of the attendees. Hopefully, someone will chime in with their impressions on this Eclipse OM.
This is quite a special guitar, featuring a true Mastergrade, bees-wing figured, quartersawn Brazilian Pernambuco back and sides, and a AAAA Adirondack Red Spruce top. If you are familiar with Pernambuco, you know it is usually fairly plain in appearance; however, the set used to make this guitar has gorgeous color and figure, which is about as rare as unicorns, especially in guitar-sized sets. Pernambuco is a stellar tonewood, quite similar in tonal character to Brazilian Rosewood. I paired the Pernambuco with an excellent set of Adirondack Red Spruce, which has a magical tonal synergy with the Pernambuco.
The fingerboard, bridge, front and back headstock plates, bevels, bindings, and soundports, and other trim are high-figured Ziricote. The purflings are highly flamed SE Asian Pyinma, with orange and black veneer lines. The neck is Honduran Mahogany, with Ziricote and Maple veneer center laminations. Here are some photos of this Eclipse OM; more info and specifications to follow.
The Specifications:
Scale length: 25.5";
Nut width: 1 3/4";
String spread @ saddle: 2 1/4"; Fingerboard Radius: 16";
Lower bout width: 15.5"
Upper bout width: 11.5" Body depth @ neck joint: 4 1/8";
Body depth @ End Graft: 4 5/16".
Thirteen frets-to-body, twenty frets total; Evo Gold Medium frets. Neck carve: Slim, modern-C shape. Nut and saddle are unbleached bone, with "Relic" polished bone Bridge Pins.
This guitar is equipped with a K&K Pure Mini, three-transducer, passive pickup system. A removable clear Mylar pick guard has also been installed.
The Tuning Machines are Swiss-made Schertler open-gear tuners, black finish, 18:1 gear ratio.
The finish is Cardinal brand nitrocellulose lacquer.
I am offering two case choices. The lower cost option is a Crossrock brand fiberglass Deluxe CRF2020 hardshell case, with silver-grey exterior and midnight blue suspension-padded interior; also has a TSA lock, best quality draw-latches, a leather handle, and two padded backpack straps.
The other case option is a Hoffee custom-fitted, Thinsulate-lined, Carbon Fiber Flight Case, with a white exterior, and black plush interior.
So how much is this guitar gonna ding ya?
List price with the Crossrock case is $11,875.
List price with the Custom Hoffee case is $12,725
I am now offering the Pernambuco/Adi Eclipse OM guitar for $10,775 with the Crossrock case- an $1100 discount off the list price.
Or, with the Hoffee Carbon Fiber flight case, I'm asking $11,625. Also $1100 off the list price.
If you are drawn to this guitar and feel that it may be the one you've always wanted, I will gladly consider reasonable offers. I will include shipping plus insurance in the continental US, and will arrange an equitable split for international shipping.
Of course, I insist that you should have a suitable trial period to try this guitar out, so you can be certain that it is a great fit for you; with the caveat that, if you decline to own it, you pay the return shipping. You can spend a whole week with the guitar, if that's what you require, before deciding. Although I seriously doubt you will have any hesitancy after you strum the first chord!
This guitar has a big, lush, colorful sound, with fat, round, well-focused bass, very articulate midrange, and crystalline trebles; tons of clean sustain, blooming overtones, and very precise balance across the spectrum. This Eclipse sounds fantastic right from the start, but with an Adirondack top and Pernambuco back and sides, it has a long tonal maturation curve. It is going to keep sounding better and better for a LONG time. I set the guitar up with a low, fast action, .070" to .050" string height at the thirteenth fret, and it plays very cleanly with a moderate fingerstyle or pick style attack. For more aggressive playing, it has loads of headroom, and an .020" fiber shim under the saddle would set the string height in the sweet spot for high-octane picking.
This will be an ideal recording or performance guitar, but will also be perfectly at home on your couch.
This Eclipse OM guitar is also featured in
my current Custom Shop thread; check it out for more detail photos.
And if you still want more,
HERE is a link to my online Flikr library, featuring this guitar. Scroll down the page a bit.
Anything you need on this end, let me know. You can reach me at
[email protected] or call (206) 271 8743. If you call, please leave a short message. I'm being relentlessly spammed, and have silenced my phone for unknown callers.
Thanks for looking! -Steve