Rick Toone Metro Skele Semi Acoustic

2018 Rick Toone Metro Skele

A very nice guitar from New Jersey luthier Rick Toone. Innovation abounds, with its semi-acoustic design, along with proprietary hardware and the Advantage™ Neck profile, a Rick Toone exclusive.

Specs / Measurements

• 2018
• Figured maple, ebony, swamp ash, birch, cherry, carbon fiber
• ~1.75” nut
• ~25.5” to 24.5” fan fret
• ~2.05” string spacing at saddle
• Stainless steel frets
• Advantage™ neck profile
• Headless design
• Patented Intonation Cantilever™ individual string tuner-bridge
• Exclusively wound DiMarzio humbucker
• Original Gator bag

Condition / Setup Notes

Excellent(+); The guitar remains in extremely clean shape, with no wear to reasonably note. Currently set up with string height about 5/64” to 4/64”, with a touch of relief. Both adjustable.

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From first glance, there is a lot going on here.The Metro Skele is designed as a semi-acoustic guitar, and the contemporary looks serve the overall function to produce an instrument with a surprising amount of resonance unplugged. For fans of the headless fan fret configuration, this is such a satisfying example. There are features available only from Rick Toone; one is the patented bridge / tuner assembly (Intonation Cantilever™ individual string tuner-bridge), and the other is probably my favorite, the Advantage™ neck profile. The neck has such a nice feel to it, almost like a D profile that thins at a hard angle on the treble side to the edge of the fretboard. It’s slim, finished so smoothly, and the maple neck itself makes for a satisfying, firm feel. A very cool guitar, at the intersection of form and function with both things considered.

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