Scott Walker Custom Solace 2015 Ebony/ Maple

Selling my beautiful Scott Walker Solace.  It is definitely the most beautiful and striking guitar in my collection, with incredible tone and unique qualities.  I am down sizing.  Read below for all the details.  I pulled the info directly off of Scott's website.  If you are not yet familiar with Scott check out his site, although don't get too excited, he has a 3 year long waiting list!
The only minor cosmetic issue is hairpin cracks on the mother of pearl 12th and 7th fret markers.  Included in the pictures.  I am selling with a soft case included.  This guitar purchased new today costs approximately $5500 without a case.
The Solace

The Solace is a new model that features a handful of unique points and details. Its a guitar that plays itself, and although simple in features is a tone machine. This is a culmination of 14 full time years of guitar building, engineering and design. Woods, metals, pickup and electronics, finishes and construction details have all been meticulously thought through, tested and revised and packed into one amazing instrument.  Built for the road and the studio.

• Formica top and back
• Alder body and Maple neck
• 24″ scale length
• 1 11/16th” Bone nut
• Jescar .104″ x .047″ frets
• Ebony fingerboard
• Aluminum tailpiece
• Tone Pros bridge and Tuners

The Pickup

At the heart of the guitar is a special designed blade style pickup, that is inserted into a non ferrous stainless steel “Cigar” tube. This shields the single coil design incredibly well, making it quiet and great for the studio. The idea comes from the big steel/slide guitar pickups of the 50’s, combined with the “Lipstick” style pickups.  It features a 39 awg  wire, a 3″ steel blade pole piece and Neodymium magnets. It has a big full, clean sound and is great for finger style, chords, bottleneck, and phrasing. It is mounted to the guitar with a brushed Aluminum ring.

The Neckjoint

The neck is attached to the body using one bolt.  The neck has a tenon extending almost to the bridge, hidden beneath the top pice of Formica. This allows the bolt to be inserted at the neck “Nodal Point”, exciting the resonance and tonal qualities throughout the whole instrument. The bolt is inserted through the back and screws into a insert that is fastened to the “top” of the neck, pinching the neck at the nodal point.

The bottom tenon of the neck has a round, curved surface that is keyed with a modified rabbit style joint. This stye of joint maximizes the surface contact and stabilizes the side to side movement of the neck. The neck angle is machined into the pocket, giving the appropriate amount of angle for the ideal action and built in structural tension.

The Fingerboard Surface

The 24″ scale length, which is shorter than your std guitar, really permits the use of heavy gauge strings. I want the ability to put on a 14 gauge string set, and really let the guitar sing out, either with chords or a bottleneck slide.  In order to achieve the stiffness and reliability needed we added two carbon fiber rods “Beams” that follow the taper of the neck on each side of the two way adjustable truss rod. Not only are the “beams” inlayed into the neck, they are also inlayed into the bottoms of the fingerboard, giving a perfect mate and stiffness to the neck.

The Tailpiece

The unique “Hingeless” tailpiece works effortlessly, and is connected to the body by coupling onto a pin. The pin is inlayed into the body 3/4″ deep and fastened with a screw. The floating tailpiece wraps around the pin and the strength is far superior  than a hinge style or wooden system. Built to withstand the heaviest of strung gauges and zero maintenance, this not only  is structurally bulletproof but sounds incredible! The string energy and transfer is conducted to the pin and excited the guitar in a musical way, the effect is similar to a grand piano type of clarity.

The strings are attached through the bottom of the tailpiece and the ball ends are anchored in the slots. These tailpieces are machined out of solid aircraft grade aluminum and lightly sanded to give it a brushed finish. Low maintenance, light weight, and non corrosive.

The Formica

Ive wanted to build a guitar that is low maintenance and doesn’t some with the same precautions as a high gloss lacquered guitar. So the Formica was the first choice.  The tone is surprisingly incredible, the string reflection adds to the clarity and touch sensitive effect of the tone. The smooth matte finish is incredibly comfortable and will last a lifetime.

The Capacitor

I am hand making the capacitors for these guitars. Made from %100 hemp paper and hemp oil. These are measuring at .050 Uf and work incredibly well with the pickup and pots, giving a dark muscly tone and feel.