Fret-King Elise Custom with Vibrato ~ Cherry Red

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MSRP: £1,099.00
£839.57
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The Fret-King® Elise is one of our most elegant, graceful styles, with ergonomic, classic lines, familiar, yet forward looking.

Our decades of knowledge in tonewood selection and attention to detail in construction methods, electronics, hardware, and pickups are all crucial in the creation of the Fret-King® Elise™ Custom.

Elise Custom Features

Body:
The two piece centre jointed, chambered semi-acoustic premium mahogany body features a tuned, violin carved maple cap, mahogany extended tenon neck joint, and premium mahogany neck, which all couple outstandingly well to create an airy lightness and ensure the strength and constructional integrity which provides the platform for the singing tone, blooming sustain and classic, authentic tonalities of the Elise™ Custom.

The unique reduced profile neck joint and subtly extended cutaway offers enhanced upper fret access, and the superb overall balance makes the Elise™ Custom a pleasure to wear.

Headstock:
The raked signature Fret-King headstock ensures correct string tension, perfect balance, classic looks, and great visual appeal.

Machine Heads:
Wilkinson WJ04 machine heads provide quick, accurate, stable tuning.

Nut:
43mm Graph Tech® self-lubricating nut, smooth and friction free.

Neck:
Gloss finished, body colour constructed from premium mahogany with classic ‘soft C’ profile for instant comfort, speed, accuracy, and a luxurious 'played in' feel.

Fingerboard:
Premium Indian Rosewood for durability and outstanding tonal transfer, with a 10” radius for a super comfortable, responsive, positive playing feel. 

Scale Length:
25.5" / 648mm.

Frets:
22 Medium profile hi-durability nickel silver frets ensure accuracy, comfort, and an overall feel.

Pickups:
A carefully curated set of Fret-King pickups enables the Elise™ Custom to deliver phenomenal versatility.

The custom designed Fret-King® Fifty-Five™ double coil pickups, created by Trev Wilkinson using a truly authentic recipe, give the Elise™ Custom the inherent character and tonal versatility its semi-acoustic style suggests, whilst hinting at there being many other different personas waiting to burst forth.

Those other personas manifest themselves from within an almost impossibly broad tonal palette. The Elise™ Custom features a three way selector switch, master volume, master tone control with latching push/push out of phase switch, and Fret-King’s unique Varicoil™ control which progressively winds the Fifty-Five™ pickups from full throated ‘powertone’, to a sparkling single coil settings. The extraordinary range of tones this arrangement gives underscores the Fret-King ‘Versatility’ philosphy and makes the Elise™ Custom, a true journeyman player’s guitar.

Vibrola:
Enhancing that tonality is a direct mounted Wilkinson GBR roller bridge, which anchors the bridge solidly to the body ensuring the all important transfer of maximum string energy to the body and pickups. The stylish and authentic Fret-King® vibrola tailpiece allows for subtle, shimmering pitch manipulation, with Wilkinson’s trademark return-to-pitch accuracy and stability.

Carry Bag:
The Elise Custom comes with a Fret-King luxury gig bag. 

Colour Options:
FKV3CVCR - Cherry Red
FKV3CVBK - Gloss Black

The Elise Custom is truly one of the most versatile and useable semi-acoustic guitars on the planet.

The Elise™ is an original Fret-King® design created by Trev Wilkinson and the UK Fret-King® design team.


About Fret King

Since 1993, and the naissance of Fret-King® in California, we have been listening to guitarists of all stripes, from the internationally renowned and famous, to the ‘journeymen’ players, to the local heroes, as well as to the design
community, the press, our peers and our competitors, incorporating real-world experience and needs into innovative, elegant, player focussed designs which fall instantly to hand, and are endowed with eminently useable features, superb playability, expanded tonal palettes with a signature edge, bringing a fresh twist to the electric guitar and bass world, through a philosophy and identity which is uniquely Fret-King®.

There are long established benchmarks; build materials, pickups, components and electronics, image, style, familiarity, feel, playability, tone, and performance, which all ‘bracket’ the parameters of the possible. For us, creating our unique Fret-King® instruments is akin to creating great cuisine from great ingredients with our unique recipes, skill, and knowledge. 

Probably, there is no ‘ideal guitar’, but since Trev Wilkinson created the very first Fret-King® guitars, after what was already half a lifetime of playing, tinkering, repairing, designing, prototyping and building guitars, thoughtful innovative guitar hardware and spectacularly authentic pickups, “doing it for the guitar player” as Trev would put it, the Fret-King® ethic was then and has always remained “radical/sensible/useable”,
with the purpose of designing versatile working tools, with recognisable classic attributes, premium materials and components, familiar and comfortable feel, outstanding playability and eminently useable features which provide the kind of exceptionally broad tonal palette that enables every Fret-King® model to carry off a huge range of tones and musical styles.

That philosophy and tradition endures today, and we retain a refreshingly progressive view of how to incorporate real high-end custom shop features, the benefits they bring, and the advantages players get from them, with instruments
designed from the ground up to be professional working tools.

Just as we are at here at Fret-King®, guitar players by their very nature are emblematic of self-expression and independence. It’s often said that the heart, soul, and art of a player shines through the instruments they play. Fret-King® guitars are a transparent lens, supporting all that freedom and energy, channelling it, and providing a solid platform to enable players to achieve the outer edges of their personal creative endeavours.

The 2023 Fret-King® Collection brings together five or more decades of skill and experience in understanding what works and translates emotion into instruments which speak with your voice.

Eclat™ has the peerless, classic good looks of the fixed neck single cut and adds a twist with enhanced ergonomics and a sophisticated, performance focussed tonal palette. The Eclat™ is truly many guitars rolled in to one.

Eclat™ Custom features our Focusfield™ mini double coil pickups, and the Fret-King® signature ‘comfort-cut.

Eclat™ Standard is loaded with Fret-King’s unique Soapstack™ stacked soap bar style pickups.

Country Squire™ is a Fret-King® stalwart, a magical fusion of the traditional with the contemporary, featuring subtle dynamic and ergonomic enhancements across several distinct and unique variants. Rooted in the familiar, whist offering freedom to be free of retro constraints and burst free into a new creativity, the 2023 Country Squire™ collection includes a slew of different variants, The Classic, The Modern Classic, The
Semitone De Luxe™, The Music Row™, The Stealth and The Tone Meister

Elise™ Custom is latest iteration of what is now a long line of Elise™ variants, featuring the signature Fret-King® offset, chambered, semi acoustic body style and nodding to a guitar heritage which spans all musical styles.

Available in this collection in hardtail and vibrola models, the Elise™ Custom has a breath-taking tonal palette which allows it to deliver a truly outstanding range of tone.

Corona™, available in two versions, Classic and Custom, recognises the roots of the bolt-neck double cut, as re-interpreted by Fret-King®, incorporates masterbuilt qualities, classic and contemporary style, feel and tone, and, of course, that Wilkinson trademark, a vibrato with unrivalled return to pitch whether you play with maximum attitude, in the shadows or on the watchtower.

Classic, as it suggests is a quite traditional HSS bolt-neck double cut, with the added advantage of Fret-King’s unique “Varicoil”.

Custom is an assertive beast, with a contemporary style body, with tight edge radiuses makes a strong style statement, with a unique pickup, control and switching arrangement which produces an almost limitless range of amazingly useable voices and subtly extended cutaway and heel joint providing enhanced upper fret access while maintaining the Corona™ Custom’s purity of line and traditional elegance.

Perception™ Custom The Fret-King® Perception™, available in four and five string versions, has always been synonymous with the needs of the journeyman bass player, delivering outstanding tone feel and balance. The Perception™ Custom speaks to the bass players’ love of tradition and introduces innovation, featuring the quite outstanding Aguilar® 4SD-D1 pickups and OPB3 active pre-amp, a combination which offers an almost magical range of tones and dynamic ability.

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