Vortex

Deceptively simple, elegant and badass to the core.

Featuring a striking headstock design with modern Steinberger gearless tuners, arranged diagonally across the headstock for a longer string path on the low E string. This dark navy blue guitar appears black until it gets bathed by the bright lights of the stage.

Steves Take: “It gives you a straight line path for the string for improved tunability. While that is important, I don’t ever want to design my headstocks JUST to make sure the string path is straight”. The personality of this particular Vortex: “It’s actually extremely dark navy blue tiger maple/flamed maple, if the stage lights hit it, the maple figuring explodes.  Just a simple, albeit very intonatable wrap-around bridge. You can do anything. It’s a chambered body, mahogany with a maple top. It’s all about the looks really. I was experimenting with adding mica to the paint. It’s deceptively simple, but with a slight roll-off of the tone nob, you can go from P-90 to a humbucker sound. Steinberger tuners, it’s really elegant, but also badass and also so simple. That guitar is basically a modern take on a Les Paul Jr. and just taking it into a crazy modern thing with the Steinbergers.”

Specifications

Vortex Body
• Single cutaway design, with easy access to all 24 frets.
• Chambered mahogany back, distinctively handcarved,
bookmatched figured maple top with bound edges.

Vortex Neck
• 25” scale.
• 1 13/16” nut width. Other widths by special order.
• Neck/body joint at 16th fret.
• Hand carved, quartersawn mahogany with scarf-jointed headstock and maple or ebony headstock veneer.
• Dual-action truss rod, with convenient adjustment inside guitar body.
• Bound ebony fingerboard, with 10” to 12” compound radius.
• 24 jumbo frets, bound fingerboard with fret end nubs.
• Pearl dot position markers, with custom placement on neck side.
• Exclusive headstock design with reverse, straight line string path.
• Graphite nut.
• Stock carve is soft V, larger 50's feel. Other carves by special order.

Hardware
• Fully intonatable wrap-around bridge/tailpiece.
• Steinberger gearless tuning machines.
• Exclusive knurled steel recessed knobs.

Electronics/Controls
• Single, bridge mounted, custom voiced Lindy Fralin
dogear P-90 pickup.
• Volume and tone.
• Combination output jack/strap button.
• All pots and switches made in U.S.A.

Finish
• Hand rubbed, aged nitrocellulose lacquer. Ultra thin.