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This guitar ships FREE in the USA!!
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“Merci de faire une ce guitar!” If I spoke French, that’s what I’d say to Monsieur Lance Lerman who made this fine LsL CV Special aptly named, “Merci.” If you’re not familiar with LsL guitars, Mr. Lerman and company make just about everything from scratch in their workshop turning out some of the nicest (and most affordable) hand built single coil creations around. From bodies to pickups to hardware, these guys create each guitar from the ground up – and it shows in the feel, playability and tone of their guitars.
The CV Special model was created with input from session master Carl Verheyen who, if you haven’t heard his stuff, is an incredible player with a huge repertoire of styles at his fingertips. And this guitar was made to handle anything you can throw at it, even the abuse someone like Carl can put an instrument through with daily session workouts. So it should come as no surprise that if you’re a fan of the single coil genre you will LOVE the way this guitar performs. From the striking CV Blue nitro finish (that actually looks blue-black in person) to the full, fat and fast neck to the exquisitely vintage sounding hand wound pickups, this is an instant classic waiting to be discovered.
The sustain and full tone of this guitar unplugged is the first hint that this is one special instrument. And once you plug in you’ll be rewarded with a warm, full and fat tone in the neck position with plenty of clarity and not a hint of mud. Push it hard and you get a thick-as-a-milkshake overdriven tone that’ll drive the Blues/Rocker into fits of joy! In Position 4 you get the familiar SRV “Lenny” tone that turns lean and mean when driven. The middle pickup sounds brighter and spanky and likes to have a little “hair” on it, while Position 2 is spunky, funky and round sounding and gets thicker and rounder the more you push it. In the bridge you’ll find a tele-like Country spank that loves to be driven hard into Rock territory and responds very well to delay and other effects should your leads need a little atmosphere.
This is a beautifully crafted, handsome guitar with a lightly relic’d finish that feels perfect from the moment you pick it up. With tone that rivals the best single coil guitar you’ve ever heard, it’s hard not to think this guitar will someday find its way onto some iconic recordings. Why not try it out for yourself and see how it might inspire you to write the next big hit?
Our price includes a personalized set up, hardshell case, and free shipping in the continental USA.
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Features
- Weight: 7 lb 2 oz
- Bodies made from the lightest Alder we can find.
- Carl Verheyen-designed, LsL hand-wound pickups that are based on his '61.
- Slightly hotter bridge pickup.
- Dark, Rosewood, 7.25" radius fingerboard with LsL's "Lowered Apex" fingerboard edges. The "Lowered Apex" creates a rounded transition from the neck to the fingerboard that begins behind the fingerboard and creates a soft, worn-in feel that melts in your hand.
- Hand-shaped neck that is based on Carl's '61 which has a medium "C" shape that is about .88" thick at the 3rd fret.
- Hand-cut bone nut.
- Lower torque Bournes pots for fast, easy controls.
- Gotoh, vintage style, bridge with steel block and 2-3/13" string spacing.
- 60's style string tree.
- LsL's thin, NC, checked lacquer finish with very light aging.
- LsL, aged 3-ply pickguard with aged knobs and pickup covers
- Medium high, 6105 nickel-silver frets.
- Tone circuit using oil-filled capacitor.
- Like our LsL Saticoys, the middle tone knob controls tone on the neck and middle pickups while the lower tone controls the bridge pickup alone.
- Dean Markley's Carl Verheyen, "Balanced Bridge" Helix Gold string set: .009, .012, .016, .026, .037, .046.
- The "CV Special" will be set up and shipped with the Carl Verheyen, floating bridge setup. This is Carl's iconic setup that allows you to use the trem bar to not only lower the pitch of the strings but raise them too. This setup allows the pitch of the high E string to be raised a half step. The B string will raise in pitch by a whole step and the G string will raise a minor 3rd.
- Backplates will feature Carl's engraved signature.
- Made in USA, G&G Hard Shell Case will be included.
- Like all LsL's, each guitar will be named with a unique female name.
- Made in USA
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