Shabat Lion GB Electric Guitar in Ocean Turquoise

The Lion GB model was designed with guitar virtuoso Gonzalo Bergara, who asked Shabat to create "a great blues machine that is super light and responsive." And they certainly nailed it!

Offering a featherweight Sugar Pine body fitted with a 3-saddle vintage-style bridge, a fat Lollar Charlie Christian neck pickup and J-Street bridge pickup — the result is a monster guitar tone that is very unique. Its clear and non-piercing top-end, defined, warm and fuzzy bottom-end, and slightly scooped mid-range with a natural compression creates the sought-after "spank" that's so synonymous with T-style guitars.

Key Features

• Sugar Pine Body — A lightweight timber with striking resonance; giving the pickups an even more lively and vibrant character.
• '50s Soft "V" Neck Profile — A truly vintage-inspired neck carve that's delightfully supportive.
• 7.25"-9.5" Compound Radius Fingerboard — This ergonomic fingerboard radius is rounded at the lower end of the neck to make chords easier to fret, and flattens out the higher you go so that fast passages feel much easier to play. It also helps to prevent string bends from fretting out!
• Lollar Charlie Christian & J-Street Pickups — The Charlie Christian neck single-coil is a fantastic jazz pickup that's warm yet pronounced, while the J-Street in the bridge position is hot and fat with a warm top-end akin to a P-90 or humbucker.
• Gotoh "In-Tune" Ashtray Bridge — A rock-solid bridge featuring compensated (intonated) brass saddles for pitch-perfect notes at all areas of the fingerboard.
• Graph Tech TUSQ XL Nut — Material is impregnated with PTFE, the slipperiest substance on earth! This alleviates the binding grip that the nut has on the strings, to make sure that they glide back into tune.
• Handcrafted in the USA — This premium electric guitar is built in California for the most discerning of musicians, promising "a level of performance any artist would expect from a professionally-designed, handcrafted instrument."

Specifications

Body

• Body Wood: Sugar Pine
• Finish: Ocean Turquoise Nitrocellulose Lacquer (Light Aging)

Neck

• Neck Wood: Quartersawn Hard Maple (Plain)
• Neck Profile: '50s Soft "V"
• Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
• Fingerboard Wood: Maple
• Fingerboard Radius: 7.25-9.5" Compound
• Fingerboard Inlays: Dots (1/8" Black)
• Number of Frets: 21
• Fretwire: Dunlop 6105 Nickel (Narrow Tall)
• Nut: Graph Tech TUSQ XL (42 mm)
• Headstock: Snakehead

Hardware

• Bridge: Gotoh "In-Tune" Vintage-Style Ashtray with Brass Saddles
• Tuners: Kluson Deluxe
• Pickguard: 4-Ply Brown Tortoiseshell
• Control Knobs: Metal Knurled
• Hardware Colour: Aged Nickel

Electronics

• Pickups: Lollar Charlie Christian & J-Street Single-Coils
• Controls: Volume, Tone (CTS Pots with MOD Oil-Filled Capacitors) & 3-Way Pickup Selector Switch
• Input Jack: Switchcraft

Miscellaneous

• Strings: D'Addario (10-46)
• Case: G&G Custom Hardshell (Included)