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This Mockingbird Does Sing





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Brandishing a spotlight-worthy flame top, the B.C. Rich USA Handcrafted Mockingbird SL is a stage-ready solidbody electric guitar with tone and style to spare. This axe starts with a solid hunk of mahogany, which is carved into B.C. Rich's iconic Mockingbird shape and capped with a solid slab of maple. Its maple neck features a comfortable "C" shape, along with a neck-through-body joint for easy ? and eminently resonant ? playability. You also get an agile ebony fingerboard with a 12-inch radius and 24 jumbo-sized frets. A set of DiMarzio humbuckers delivers a vintage-tinged, high-octane crunch, which is bolstered by a Neal Moser Full Vintage B.C. Rich circuit to unleash an endless variety of sonic textures. Hardware-wise, this Mockingbird flaunts a double-locking Floyd Rose Original tremolo and resilient 18:1-ratio tuning machines. Do you have an affinity for Slash's "other" '80s- and '90s-era guitar? If so, you're sure to find this US-handmade Mockingbird particularly inspiring. The USA Handcrafted Mockingbird SL is the ideal instrument for hard rock musicians searching for that one guitar that truly does it all ? it's got what it takes to be your new number one.





Designed by shredders for shredders





The USA Handcrafted Mockingbird SL was conceived with technical players in mind. Its flame-maple-topped, Mockingbird-shaped mahogany body offers exceptional balance and long-term playing comfort. Its neck-through joint facilitates stress-free upper-fret access, and its gloss-finished maple neck features B.C. Rich's easy-playing "C" shape. And, in the interest of achieving terminal velocity, this Mockingbird comes armed and ready with a lightning-fast 12-inch-radius ebony fingerboard with 24 jumbo frets.





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Vintage-tinged Seymour Duncan humbuckers





The B.C. Rich USA Handcrafted Mockingbird SL is voiced to fuel your appetite ? for destruction, that is ? with a DiMarzio Super Distortion in the bridge and a Dimarzio PAF in the neck position. These pickups churn out a warm, moderate-output tone that's tame enough for classic rock yet hot-tempered enough to thrust your amp into a metallic grind. Guitarists at Sweetwater are impressed with the power and tone that these pickups deliver; single notes and chords sound huge, and you get just the right amount of midrange boost to make your guitar sing.





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Armed with the legendary Neal Moser Full Vintage B.C. Rich circuit, the USA Handcrafted Mockingbird SL furnishes enough tone-tweaking options for a lifetime of play. Volume controls, master tone, and a 3-way pickup toggle provide the essentials, but then this Mockingbird spreads its wings and jets off toward tonal opulence. An adjustable boost circuit lets you juice any pickup's output in the blink of an eye. A reverse phase mini-switch lets you add funky articulation to clean tones and shaky depth to driven sounds. Varitone circuitry, a notch-style filter with six positions, offers potent flavors of sound shaping that have been many a famous player's secret weapon since Varitone's introduction in 1959. Each Varitone voice skims off frequencies below the selected notch for radically modified tone and progressively less lows and mids the higher the notch. Without an advanced math degree, it's tough to begin counting the possible combinations and voices onboard this guitar! There are no wrong answers ? toggle away and find what works for you!





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B.C. Rich USA Handcrafted Mockingbird SL Electric Guitar Features:


US-handmade solidbody electric guitar with eye-catching aesthetics and limitless tone-shaping options


Solid mahogany body carved into B.C. Rich's iconic Mockingbird shape


Spotlight-ready flame maple top


Gloss-finished maple neck with a comfortable "C" shape


Neck-through-body joint provides easy ? and resonant ? playability


Agile ebony fingerboard with a 12-inch radius and 24 jumbo-sized frets


DiMarzio Super Distortion in the bridge and DiMarzio PAF in the neck deliver high-octane tone


Neal Moser Full Vintage B.C. Rich circuit unleashes an endless variety of sonic textures


Dive-bomb-ready Floyd Rose Original tremolo


Resilient 18:1-ratio tuning machines