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Mike Sabre - McLaughlin Model

DestroyAllGuitars welcomes Mike Sabre, French master luthier, to the family. Mike is widely known for designing and building John McLaughlin's Shakti guitar for which we are honored to be the exclusive agent.

Guitar Specs:
- This guitar is 33 inches long and was conceived in order to travel in plane cockpits to avoid damage during flights.
- It has a standard 24.562 scale length.
- The neck is made of very old-growth mahogany and is reinforced in its center by a piece of rosewood.
- Two carbon rods are inserted against a double way adjustable truss rod.
- The frettboard, made of ebony, has 22 frets and is radiused from 12 to 16 inch.
- The peg head is thicker than usual and is reinforced on its front and back faces by a thick veneer of rosewood, with a hill on the back side. It's glued to the body, and bolted with four screws.
- The base of the body is made of mahogany, and the top is made of curly maple in the center and rosewood on the sides.
- The overall body is hand carved, arched on the top and curved on the back and gives perfect comfort while being played.
- It is equipped with a jazz mini humbucker at neck position, and the tremolo bar is mounted with RMC midi saddles, controlled by a volume and tone for the humbucker, and volume for the midi output.

Mike Sabre McLaughlin Model pricing:
with vibrato and midi RMC.....$12,000
with vibrato and no midi pickup....$10,500
without vibrato and no midi ....$10,250

*All prices inclusive of shipping, insurance and duty.

This guitar will be available in limited quantities on a first come basis.