BC Rich Exotic Classic Mockingbird -Shown in Natural(Koa)
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An updated salute to our handcrafted history! Featuring our neck through design, Nato body and contrasting wood stringers, these guitars will appeal to rockers of all levels.
Features include: Ebony fingerboard with signature B.C. Rich cloud inlay, tune-o-matic bridge and Rockfield humbucker pickups. Koa with Maple stringers and Spalted Maple with Ebony stringers.
B.C. Rich is known as one of the pioneers in Neck Through construction. They utilize it on many of their guitars, because it provides the best possible sustain, resonance, comfort and access to higher frets. Neck-through has long been considered the premium construction method for high end guitars. This construction starts with a long piece (or pieces) of premium North American maple. That piece runs from the tip of the headstock to the strap button on the opposite end of the guitar. This means that the headstock, fingerboard, pickups and bridge all are mounted to this single sound foundation. Sonically it is a difference you can hear. The neck-through construction also allows us to cut away more of the body and neck at the neck joint which provides comfort that no bolt-on or set-neck could offer. You will find the neck through feature on all of our top of the line B.C. Rich models.
BC Rich guitars called and asked us, "We like the turbo series but can you do them with a ceramic magnet also?" We replied, "That's a great Idea! Sure we can, but you have got to use them in everything!" (We didn't win that battle but it was worth a shot) The use of a ceramic magnet gives any pickup extra power due to the increased magnetic field that they provide. This feature makes the mafia pickups produce a hotter and thicker tone that's really aggressive and full. The increased low end and thick mids and in your face highs is what rock and roll was built on! Balanced and full of sustain this pickup is a great representation of its namesake, a truly intimidating killer.
We wanted to make sure the neck version of the mafia pickup was just as full sounding as the bridge position. We wanted to do this without taking away from what we had already accomplished. So we again we went into the wood shed and made very minor modifications to the overall design and design concept of this pickup. When we came out we were confident that the Mafia neck pickup had that punchy bold tone with the same aggressive characteristics as the bridge version. A tad brighter with a little less output really takes this pickup into the smooth and warm realm of the tonal spectrum. All while maintaining that balanced bite and in your face aggressive tone that the mafia is known for!
Most of B.C. Rich body styles employ a beveled edge around the shape. In many ways bevels on a top are similar to facets on a cut stone. They catch the light and reflect at different angles giving the instrument more of a three dimensional look. Some of the B.C. Rich top bevels are extreme and wide while others are subtle and narrow. Occasionally the shape of the instrument is accented by painting the bevels a contrasting color.
BC Rich Exotic Classic Mockingbird Specifications:
- Construction: neck through
- Body wood: nato
- Top style: beveled
- Body binding: no
- Headstock style: traditional 3 to a side
- Headstock color: matching veneer and color
- Headstock binding: single ply cream
- Tuners: B.C. Rich die cast
- Neck wood: maple
- Back of neck: clearcoat
- Neck binding: single ply cream
- Neck profile: standard BC Rich C
- Nut width: 43 mm
- Fretboard: ebony
- Inlay: white pearloid cloud
- Frets: 24 jumbo 2.7mm
- Scale: 24 5/8"
- Bridge type: Tune O Matic
- String termination: stop bar
- Pickups: 2 Rockfield zebra mafia humbuckers
- Controls: two volumes, one tone and one 3 way toggle
- Hardware: chrome
- Finish: natural
- Colors: spalted maple veneer with ebony stringers or koa veneer with maple stringers
BC Rich Exotic Classic Mockingbird Review - Guitar World Magazine
"...The tones they produce blend vintage depth with contemporary attitude, and the exquisite feel of their three-piece necks represents almost 30 years of design evolution. Very impressive!" Eric Kirkland, Guitar World Magazine
Buy Today & We'll Throw In The Following Free Gifts:Korg GA-30 Tuner + BC Rich Gig BagThis is a limited time offer so please act quickly!
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