![]() ![]() ![]() We have a lower-profile Gotoh Custom 510 vibrato here where Charvel might have played to type and chiselled in a double-locking Floyd Rose. Some restraint has been shown in the hardware. Oh, and it is similarly heavily contoured. Now, that is a ‘shred’ appointment but remember that Fender’s new American Ultra Stratocaster has a compound radius ’board, too – albeit 10 to 14 inches. The 22 frets are fitted on a a 305 to 406mm (12- to 16-inch) compound radius fingerboard. There’s also some contouring on the back of the body to accommodate your ribcage or belly… whichever comes first.Ī scoop cut into the rear of the treble side cutaway ensures upper-fret access is excellent – while a nicely rounded body heel does well to keep out of your way. ![]() Upper-fret access is fantastic thanks to a scoop on the rear of the treble side cutaway and the rounded neck heel. The Strat-style jack plate is convenient, too, angled upwards so you can train your cable over the strap or into a radio pack. The rear of the Dinky's body is sculpted for player comfort. It is in fact an alder body – very classic strat – that's hiding under the lovely satin urethane Pharaoh’s Gold finish. Maybe they'd have it pegged as a basswood body, a popular choice for the modern metal guitar. The better-dead-than-shred brigade might have some assumptions of their own with this one. The neck here has further reinforcements courtesy of a pair of graphite rods. This treatment makes it more stable and gives it a lovely tan colour. You'll have heard of roasted or torrefied maple, well caramelised is just another term for that same process in which the wood is heated in a kiln to remove moisture. Lastly, ‘CM’ is shorthand for caramelised maple, which is what the 648mm (25.5-inch) scale neck is carved from. ‘SSS’? Yes, you guessed it that means a trio of single-coil-sized pickups, while ‘2PT’ points is a little more arcane, in reference to the two pivot point recessed Gotoh Custom 510 vibrato. The DK comes from the Dinky body shape, which is effectively a scaled-down Strat-style silhouette, with ‘22’ denoting the number of jumbo frets. ![]()
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