FYBW-ML-1

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.

We have intentionally used affordable own-brand Chinese pickups available, with the intent that the purchaser makes the tonal decisions themselves. Pickups make such a difference to the sound of a guitar, and Chapman Guitars really believes that if you care about tone, you should take your guitar and some pickups to a luthier and go through the possibilities together. As it happens, we absolutely lucked-out, as it turns out that the affordable Chinese pickups have a fantastic and unique tone of their own. We genuinely didn’t realise that this was going to happen. It was a happy accident.

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