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The Chapman guitars ML1 has fast become one of our best selling electric guitars because it offers high quality materials, great playability and good tone at an incredible price. The ML1 is a "blank canvas" of a guitar that you can customise as you wish. Now we are offering you the chance to get yourself a special-order Ben Wilshire Signature ML1 with scalloped fretboard and DiMarzio pickups.
Ben is a Chapman guitars development artist who has shown that he has the potential to go far in his guitar playing career. The Ben Wilshire ML1 is the guitar he needs to do just that! Fitted with DiMarzio Tone Zone and Mo'Joe pickups, and featuring a fully scalloped (all frets) fretboard, the Ben Wilshire signature guitar is fast, loud, and built to rock!
Here's what Chapman Guitars say about the Ben Wilshire Signature ML1
The ML1 is the first guitar made by Chapman Guitars. The central focus of the ML1 was to make a guitar where all of the money in the build was lovingly poured into the parts that could not be upgraded. The tonal concept was to use the warmest, fattest solid mahogany body and combine it with a top-end spank of a bolt-on neck and an ebony fretboard so that you can get a really good balanced tone. You won't be able to find another guitar made with similar materials anywhere near this budget.
Specs
- Body Wood: Solid Mahogany
- Body Colour/Finish: Thru Black Satin
- Neck Wood: Maple with Thin Lacquer
- Neck Profile: Thin 'C' Contour, scalloped
- Frets: Jumbo
- Neck Join: Bolt On
- Neck Plate: Engraved monkey face
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Fingerboard Inlays: "Infinity" Logo on 12th Fret
- Headstock: Reverse Tele Style
- Nut: Bone
- Scale: 25.5"
- Pickups: DiMarzio Mo'Joe (bridge), covered stock single-coil (central), DiMarzio Tone Zone S (neck)
- Electronics: Shadow kill-pot fitted under volume control, coil-tap under tone control
- Machine Heads: Grover Rotomatic - 18:1 Ratio. BLACK
- Bridge: Wilkinson Chrome WVPCR
- Case: Monkey Lord padded gig bag included
- Accessories: Guitar lead, allen keys, tremolo arm, two different gauges of solid mahogany tremolo blocks.
- 'Modern' style - Stainless Steel Saddles A modern twist on the classic design. Ultra smooth under a player's hand, with a sleek, low-profile surround restricting the sideways movement of the SOLID STAINLESS STEEL saddles, the WVP range of vibratos is the ultimate in comfort and performance. Ideally suited to more contemporary guitar designs, this family of bridges looks far more expensive than it is. Features include a stamped steel "heat hardened" top plate with 6-screw pivot mounting. Push-in arm and Wilkinson design "stagger-drilled" block for unrivalled tuning stability.
- Spec -Steel Block Depth - 41mm
- Plate - 84.5mm (75mm at Screw Mount) x 43mm x 2.6mm/12mm
- String Spacing - 54mm
- Screw Spacing - 53 - 59mm
