The Ernie Ball Music Man Jason Richardson Artist Series Cutlass guitar is the latest collaboration between the award-winning Ernie Ball Music Man design team and the multitalented virtuoso guitarist and composer Jason Richardson. Featuring innovative design characteristics engineered specifically for Jason's exacting technique, the Richardson Artist Series Cutlass offers unique features and aesthetics that will give players a fresh look at one of our most popular models.

Custom Ernie Ball Music Man Electronics

Custom Humbucking Bridge and Neck Pickups

Select Alder Body

Lightweight Alder Body with Opaque White Maple Top

Extended Cutaway

Custom Contoured Lower Horn for More Access To All 24 Frets.

Enhanced Playability

All New Cutlass

Built to Jason Richardson's exact specifications, the Cutlass incorporates a multitude of design features to further enhance comfortability, playability, and overall performance.

Roasted Neck

Features a roasted figured maple neck and headstock with Schaller locking tuners.

Custom Pickups

Ernie Ball Music Man bridge and neck pickups are custom wound offering heavy rhythm tones and a clear and bright top end for endless soloing.

Engineered to Perform

Designed to Perfection

The Jason Richardson Cutlass features a perfectly balanced lightweight double-cutaway body design, allowing unparalleled access to all 24 medium jumbo frets. Additionally, the roasted maple neck is hand shaped with a shallow neck carve for very fast playability.

Finest Materials

Hand-selected body and neck woods are sustainably sourced from our network of hardwood suppliers around the world. Alder, burl, and maple are individually chosen and matched for their beautiful appearance and rich tonal qualities.

Features

• Color : Rorschach Red
• Neck : Select figured roasted maple neck, ebony fretboard
• Pickguard : None
• Hardware : Gold
• Size : 12-7/8" wide, 1-5/8" thick, 38-1/8" long (32.7 cm wide, 4.1 cm thick, 96.8 cm long)
• Body Wood : Alder with buckeye burl top (Empress White is a maple top)
• Body Finish : High gloss polyester -All finishes except Natural Buckeye Burl
• Bridge : Custom Music Man floating tremolo, made of black or plated, hardened steel with black or gold plated steel saddles
• Pickguard : N/A
• Scale Length : 25-1/2" (64.8 cm)
• Neck Radius : 15" (38.1 cm)
• Headstock Size : 6-3/8" (16.2 cm) long
• Frets : 24 - Medium Jumbo profile, Stainless Steel
• Neck Width : 1-11/16" (43.00 mm) at nut; 2-1/4" (56.9 mm) at last fret
• Neck Wood : Figured roasted maple
• Fingerboard : Ebony (Roasted Maple on Purple Majora)
• Fret Markers : Dot inlay
• Neck Finish : Gunstock oil and hand-rubbed special wax blend
• Neck Colors : Natural
• Neck Binding : N/A
• Tuning Machines : Schaller M6-IND locking
• Truss Rod : Adjustable - no component or string removal
• Neck Attachment : 5 bolt, sculpted neck joint
• Electronic Shielding : Graphite acrylic resin coated body cavity and aluminum control cover
• Controls : Custom Music Man active preamp w/ Silent Circuit; 25kohm push/push volume POT for gain boost, 500kohm push/push tone POT for pickup coil splitting - 0.022uf tone cap; 3-way pickup selector switch
• Switching : 3-way toggle pickup selector; Push/push volume knob engages boost
• Pickups : HH - Music Man Custom humbucking pickups, Ceramic magnets
• Strings : 10p-13p-17p-26-36-46 (RPS 10 Slinkys #2240)