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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Concorde crashes !!

Sadly we are selling off our damaged British Icon Series Concorde guitar which was featured in the music press last year.

In 2009 we decided to make this British Icon Series Signature guitar, not just to mark the 40th anniversary test flight of Concorde, the world’s most revolutionary turbo-powered, supersonic passenger aircraft, but also as a tribute to this amazing achievement between British and French engineers.

After a ‘glamour photo-shoot’ with the aircraft itself, at Brooklands Museum in Surrey, the Martyn Booth British Icon Series Concorde went on sale at Guitar Junction in Worthing.

Carved Brazilian Mahogany body. Double cutaway body provides easy access to all 22 frets. Slim 2” thick body. Comfort contour to the back of the body. One piece set-in Mahogany C profile neck with bound Ebony fingerboard inlaid with Abalone dot markers and red roundel side dots. 25” scale length. Graphtec trem nut. Chrome and satin hardware. Hipshot tremolo bridge. Sperzel locking tuners with pearloid buttons. With Seymour Duncan JB red and blue custom shop humbucker at the bridge position and Seymour Duncan Jazz red and blue custom shop humbucker in the neck position. Coil splits via a push/push pot. Tone, volume and three way selector. Special red inserts to the control knobs. Red and blue handpainted coach lines to the top of the body. Handpainted crossed British and French flags motif to the lower top bout and pearl inlaid Concorde to the headstock. With Martyn Booth logo Hiscox case and Martyn Booth premium leather strap and keyring.

This extraordinary guitar is the second in the Martyn Booth British Icon series (the first was the Signature Spitfire) and will never be repeated. Also provided with the guitar is a CD of photos of the Signature Concorde taken inside and outside Concorde G-BBDG at Brooklands Museum signed by Martyn himself. Unique and fabulous.

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