New from Fret King at NAMM 2011!

Simply put, the Super-matic is a guitar that tunes itself – in seconds and at the touch of a button. Beginning in standard E tuning, you can switch to open G, DADGAD, or open D, or even create up to five of your own personal tunings. The choice is yours with the Super-matic.

100% usable, 100% musical, 100% reliable, 100% accurate

Awesome convenience and simplicity aside though, the Super-matic is also a top notch axe to play. Built with all the hallmark Fret-King style and attributes, the Super-matic looks fantastic, cut from matched, two-piece centre jointed American alder, using heritage styling cues to create a subtly nuanced classic double cut body, with cosmetics reminiscent of the shared history with which we are all so familiar.

The 25 1/5” scale length, 24-fret, hard rock maple neck, with its classic 'shallow C' profile, has been matched to a premium, close grain Indian rosewood fingerboard with a 10” radius. This has been topped off with an immaculate fret job, using single cut, hand crowned medium jumbo nickel silver frets, assuring precision and comfort, and providing a playing experience which can only be described as luxurious.

The Super-matic features a Hum-Single-Hum pickup configuration, with Wilkinson WHHBZ33 offset pole piece 'Zebra' humbuckers wound to a very authentic recipe and a Wilkinson WHSM 'vintage-voiced' single coil middle pickup. The combination of carefully voiced and balanced pickups and the signature Wilkinson 'Vari-coil control', (which allows either of the humbuckers to be progressively wound down to single coil), creates an instrument with an exceptionally versatile palette of sounds, capable of any musical style.

Specs:

Body: American alder - Two piece, centre jointed
Neck: Hard rock maple
Neck Profile: Shallow 'C'
Fingerboard: Indian rosewood
Frets: 24 medium jumbo nickel silver
Scale length: 25 1/5''
Bridge: Wilkinson® ATD HT440™ self-tuning hard tail
Pickups: 2 x Wilkinson® WHHBZ33 'zebra' humbuckers, 1 x Wilkinson® WHSM single coil
Controls: Volume, 2 x tone, 'Vari Coil' control