As NAMM show gives a lot of news and info, I’ll made a mix in one post about all the guitars introduced recently. This post will cover the Reverend Gil Parris Signature, Tokai SC-2C and SX and Gibson SG-3 guitars, all of them announced at NAMM.
Reverend Gil Parris Signature is the first Reverend signature guitar and has been built in collaboration of virtuoso player Gil Parris. The guitar, from the Bolt-On guitar series (formerly named Stage King series), features tone chambered mahogany body (with solid bruce top), bolt-on maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, 25.5” scale length, TOM bridge (with stop tail), 2 Reverend humbuckers (at neck and bridge positions) and 1 Lace Sensor Burgandy humless single-coil pickup (middle position), 5–way pickup switch and volume, tone and bass contour controls. Available in midnight black and metallic gold finishes, the Reverend Gil Parris Signature price is $559 and as all Reverend guitars for additional $100 you can have a LES tremolo bridge.
Tokai SC-2C guitar, the first Tokai guitar available in the US in ten years, features single-cut African mahogany body (with carved top) and neck, rosewood fingerboard, Tone Pros AVR-II bridge, 2 Keiyo humbucker pickups, 3–way pickup switch and volume an tone controls. The guitar is available in solid Black, solid white, gold top, amber, see-through red, violin, cherry sunburst and tobacco sunburst colors, and its price is $1,500.
Tokai SX is an affordable guitar that features double-cutaway basswood body, 4–blot Canadian maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, vibrato bridge, 3 Gotoh single-coil pickups, 5–way pickup switch and volume and tone controls. The guitar is available in metallic silver, gold, blue and red, solid black, solid white, sky blue, candy apple red, sea foam green and tobacco sunburst colors, and its price is $700.
Gibson SG-3 is a guitar for rock, blues and metal players that offers a huge range of possibilities in tonal range and sustain sound with its 3 humbucker pickups. The guitar features mahogany body and neck, rosewood fingerboard, 24.75” scale length, Tune-O-Matic bridge (with stop bar tail), 2 ‘57 Classic Gold humbuckers (middle and neck positions) and 1 ‘57 Classic Plus Gold humbucker pickup (bridge position), volume and tone controls and 6–way pickup switch (with bridge, bridge/middle, middle, middle/neck, neck, and bridge/neck available positions). The Gibson SG-3 is available in heritage cherry and ebony colors and its price has to be announced yet (rumors fix the price in $2,000).
- From Harmony Central, Electric Guitar Review
- Reverend Gil Parris official site
- Tokai SC-2C and SX official site
- Gibson SG-3 official site
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