Ernie Ball Music Man 25th Anniversary Hardtail Reflex 2009 Venetian Redburst

2009 EBMM 25th Anniversary guitar, which ultimately became their Reflex model.

The body is chambered basswood with a mahogany center tone block and is incredibly lightweight (6lb 15oz), very resonant, and comfortable to play with forearm contour and a tummy cut.  Striking flame maple top finished in Venetian Redburst.

The neck is birdseye maple finished in a gunstock oil and wax blend, very smooth, very fast.  The profile is a medium C with a slight offset.  Fretboard is rosewood with small mother-of-pearl position markers, 12" radius, and 22 frets with very little to no wear at all.  A compensated nut and locking tuners with pearl buttons complete the matching headstock.

Electronics feature custom Dimarzio pickups with essentially 10 different settings on tap.  A 5-way switch gives you the standard neck, neck/bridge, and bridge positions with the addition of N/B inner coil and N/B outer coil settings.  Each of these five settings can be switched between parallel and series wiring by a 2-way toggle.

Condition is excellent.  At worst is has light swirling but certainly nothing that couldn't be buffed out if you felt like you absolutely had to.  I'd not feel the least bit cheated if I purchased a new guitar in the same condition.

Guitar has been kept in a smoke free home chock full of large dogs.  I swear every time I turn around there's a new one.  We adopted the neighborhood stray and now all his friends think we're some kind of halfway house.

Shipping is limited to the lower 48 in lieu of CITES unless you're outside the US and make me an offer I can't refuse.  For the record, that would be somewhere north of double my ask, paid in full before I submit the export paperwork, which could then take months to process.  The More You Know.

Returns will only be accepted after a reasonable period of unsuccessful pushback.  Real talk: You will certainly feel it arrived in described condition, so the only reason to return it is because you don't love it like you'd hoped to.  Here's the deal: You're buying a guitar over the internet sight unseen so if you don't like it, it's kinda on you, right?  

Full Specifications:

• Body Wood: Chambered basswood with bookmatched figured maple top and mahogany Tone Block
• Body Finish: High gloss polyester
• Body Colors: Venetian Redburst
• Body Bindings: Binding - Cream
• Bridge: Standard Music Man strings-thru-the-body bridge of chrome plated, hardened steel with bent steel saddles;
• Scale Length: 25-1/2" (64.8 cm)
• Neck Radius: 12" (30.5 cm)
• Headstock Size: Only 5-7/8" (14.9 cm) long
• Frets: 22 High profile, wide
• Neck Width: 1-5/8" (41.3 mm) at nut, 2-1/4" (56.9 mm) at last fret
• Neck Wood: Select maple neck
• Fingerboard: rosewood
• Fret Markers: Mother of Pearl dots
• Neck Finish: Gunstock oil and hand-rubbed special wax blend
• Neck Colors: Matching painted headstock
• Tuning Machines: Schaller M6-IND locking with pearl buttons
• Truss Rod: Adjustable (requires no component or string removal)
• Neck Attachment: 5 bolts (perfect alignment with no shifting; Sculpted neck joint allows smooth access to higher frets)
• Electronic Shielding: Graphite acrylic resin coated body cavity and aluminum control cover
• Controls: 500kohm volume and tone; .022 F tone capacitor
• Switching: 5-way lever pickup selector; 2-way toggle series/parallel selector
• Pickups: 2 DiMarzio custom humbuckers with chrome cover and Music Man pickup rings
• Strings: 9p-11p-16p-24w-32w-42w (RPS 9 Slinkys #2239)
• Size: 12-7/8" wide, 1-3/4" thick, 37-3/4" long (32.7 cm wide, 4.5 cm thick, 95.9 cm long)