Description
CME has been selected by luthier Andy Powers to offer our customers a chance to purchase the debut model from his new brand of guitars, inspired by the hallmarks of Southern California culture!
San Diego is the pot that I was boiled in, Andy Powers said at an exclusive press event announcing the debut of the Powers Electric A-Type guitar model. Ive lived here my whole life. Knowing what that looked like, what it felt like, and the kinds of things people didthose things shape who you are.
Designed with the vibrant musical, artistic, and architectural backdrop of San Diegos North County in mindthink surfing, skateboards, and classic carsthe new Powers Electric A-Type model blends these influences and aesthetics to provide players with a new tool to enrich and inspire their creative expression. Comprised almost entirely of parts made in-house, each Powers Electric guitar requires labor-intensive craftsmanship, meaning they can only be produced in small numbers.
Style
Inspired by the lines of classic cars, hot rods, and surfboard design, the Powers Electric A-Type guitar sports an asymmetrical shape, without sacrificing visual balance. Featuring timeless styling and modern embellishments, the resulting model is a trussed, slim hollowbody design, for whichlike a surfboard or roadsterevery line was considered, both for its looks and its handling.
As if the aesthetic links to Southern Californias surfboard culture werent clear enough, the colorful knobs and vibrato arm cap on each A-Type guitar are shop-crafted in-house from layers of surfboard resin, which originally was a byproduct of the surfboard glassing processand, as a result, no two resin knobs look exactly alike!
Feel
Made to be held with ease, the A-Type is lightweight and perfectly balanced whether played standing or sitting, with contoured armrests and radiused body edges for additional playing comfort.
Not to be confused with an end-to-end compound radius, the A-Types Honduras rosewood fretboard features a split radiusmeaning its asymmetrical from the bass side to the treble side, with the treble side slightly flatter all the way from the first fret down to the end (i.e. up to the highest fret, where the fretboard meets the body), for easy, better-sounding string bends.
Body Architecture
Each Powers Electric A-Type features an Urban Ash hollowbody trussed with two internal soundposts fitted into a braced, solid maple topsimilar to the soundpost in a violinwhich allows the front and back to move together, increasing the resonance and sustain of the guitar while reducing feedback.
Pickups
Available in full Faraday (FF42) and partial Faraday (PF42) editions, both pickup options are a new design that blends modern magnetic structure with an old inspiration, allowing the strings to vibrate more naturally, producing unprecedented fidelity and colorful warmthtonal qualities that tend to be at odds with one another, but beautifully complement one another with these new designsone emphasizing clarity and warmth (FF42); and the other, a firm, brighter response (PF42).
CamTail Tremolo/Vibrato
Since pitch-shifting tails notoriously go out of tune, Andy Powers engineered his own ingenious camshaft tailpiecewhich hes dubbed the CamTailwith string ramps individually compensated for tension and gauge. So, when you dive on the CamTail Tremolo on a Powers Electric A-Type guitar, the strings move in pitch unison relative to each othergetting sonically closer to the way lap and pedal steel guitarists move a chord and maintain relative pitch.
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