NO LONGER IN PRODUCTION! This ONE OF A KIND custom made Langcaster guitar by Joh Lang features a prehistoric bird in it's body and is in LIKE NEW CONDITION. It also comes with the Langcaster Pickup + Overdrive.
The first Langcaster guitar was handmade and crafted in 2000 by Amsterdam-born inventor and luthier Joh Lang. These guitars were further developed by Lang and his son in his home in West Auckland suburb, Titirangi in New Zealand on the fringes of the Waitakere Ranges native kauri forest.
The Langcaster Guitar is distinctive for its unique prehistoric swamp kauri body and intricate patterns made from the roots of the native New Zealand Kauri tree. Carbon dating carried out by the scientists at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands has found wood used in the guitar bodies to be more than 35,000 years old. Notable players of Langcaster Guitars include Jan Akkerman,[6] Kara Gordon,[7] and Arli Liberman.
The notable feature of the Langcaster guitar is the application of the low impedance Ultimate Lo Pickups which are an impedance of 100 Ohm. The Ultimate Lo Pickups are made by two stacked coils and winding techniques, mounted onto a PCB board in a single coil humbucker or Strat pickup cover housing. The pickups have eight magnetic poles to avoid dead spots when bending the thin strings and have an overdrive option with a gain control pot and do not hum.
Lang founded a pickup with all the advantages of a low impedance pickup, being higher fidelity and low noise. However, the output of The Ultimate Lo pickups was that high that a separate buffer amp was needed. Lang used this occasion to develop a small PC board with a buffer amp and an integrated tube sounding overdrive sound, which he called the Ultradrive. All Langcaster guitars are equipped with these pickups and corresponding battery powered circuitry, incorporating clean overdrive switch and an overdrive intensity control pot.
The first Langcaster guitar was handmade and crafted in 2000 by Amsterdam-born inventor and luthier Joh Lang. These guitars were further developed by Lang and his son in his home in West Auckland suburb, Titirangi in New Zealand on the fringes of the Waitakere Ranges native kauri forest.
The Langcaster Guitar is distinctive for its unique prehistoric swamp kauri body and intricate patterns made from the roots of the native New Zealand Kauri tree. Carbon dating carried out by the scientists at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands has found wood used in the guitar bodies to be more than 35,000 years old. Notable players of Langcaster Guitars include Jan Akkerman,[6] Kara Gordon,[7] and Arli Liberman.
The notable feature of the Langcaster guitar is the application of the low impedance Ultimate Lo Pickups which are an impedance of 100 Ohm. The Ultimate Lo Pickups are made by two stacked coils and winding techniques, mounted onto a PCB board in a single coil humbucker or Strat pickup cover housing. The pickups have eight magnetic poles to avoid dead spots when bending the thin strings and have an overdrive option with a gain control pot and do not hum.
Lang founded a pickup with all the advantages of a low impedance pickup, being higher fidelity and low noise. However, the output of The Ultimate Lo pickups was that high that a separate buffer amp was needed. Lang used this occasion to develop a small PC board with a buffer amp and an integrated tube sounding overdrive sound, which he called the Ultradrive. All Langcaster guitars are equipped with these pickups and corresponding battery powered circuitry, incorporating clean overdrive switch and an overdrive intensity control pot.
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