Faith HiGloss 3 Series Mercury Electro-Acoustic Guitar with Scoop.

Here's what Faith say... Faith HiGloss series have always been designed to offer both visual and aural beauty, and with the updating to HiGloss-3, were sure youll agree these wonderful instruments will continue to inspire musicians for generations to come. Using a more sustainable 3-piece, solid rosewood back design, we can ensure that these incredibly popular models are available longer-term and yet retain all the tonal and visual punch that HiGloss-series afficianados have come to expect. Using high grade Englemann Spruce for the top and highly-figured, 3-piece Rosewood bound in Flamed Maple for the back and sides, HiGloss-3 models also feature solid Flamed Maple binding on the front and use stripy Indonesian Ebony for the fingerboard, bridge, headplate and heelcap. Tonally, this combination of wood is generally bright and zingy, delivering great clarity. Visualising this as a frequency curve, it would be shaped like a smile: high on the bass, dipping down through the middle and rising once again at the top end. Therefore greater string separation and articulation is achieved, lending itself to fingerstyle and solo pieces in particular. This Faith Guitar is fitted with the refined, low-profile Fishman INK3 preamp system with the Sonicore piezo pickup located under the saddle. The preamp features a chromatic tuner, 3 band EQ and volume control. The output jack is located at the base of the guitar as part of the ingenious, easy-access battery compartment. All HiGloss series Faith Guitars are complete with a Faith Hardcase. A little beauty, this Mercury is a traditional short-scale parlour model. With the neck joining the body at the 12th fret - rather than the 14th - the strings are held at a slightly lower tension than on regular models. Another implication of the 12th fret join is that the bridge is shifted further from the soundhole. These features result in a guitar that is physically easier to play, sounds much bigger than you would imagine and is also simple to handle and transport. Fishman Pre-Amp / Pickup This Faith Guitar is fitted with the refined, low-profile Fishman INK3 preamp system with the Sonicore piezo pickup located under the saddle. The preamp features a chromatic tuner, 3 band EQ and volume control. The output jack is located at the base of the guitar as part of the ingenious, easy-access battery compartment. Specification Top Wood Solid Engelmann Spruce Back Wood Solid 3-Piece Rosewood Side Wood Solid Rosewood Binding Solid Flamed Maple Bracing Material Hand-Scalloped Quarter-Sawn Spruce Bracing Pattern Patrick James Eggle X-Brace Design Rosette 5mm Abalone with Fibre Border Neck Mahogany Neck Finish Satin Neck Joint Patrick James Eggle Bolt-On Design Fingerboard Macassan Figured Ebony Fingerboard Radius 16" Fingerboard Inlays Mother of Pearl 'F' at 12th Fret Machine Head Grover Rotomatic Gold Trussrod 2 Way Nut / Saddle TUSQ (PQ-6116)/(PQ-9110) Nut Width 43mm / String Spacing 55mm Bridge Macassan Figured Ebony Bridge Pins Macassan Figured Ebony with Abalone Dots Finish Type High Gloss Top, Back and Sides Preamp / Pickup Fishman INK3 Preamp with undersaddle pickup Hardcase Included Dimensions Upper bout 240mm Lower bout 340mm Depth at neck 96mm Depth at base 110mm Body Length 500mm Soundhole Diameter 100mm Scale Length 610mm Fingerboard Radius 16 inch