Fenice
Extended horns and gloss black shot through with multicoloured micro-flake, which only catches fire when the light hits it edge-on. Built like a Genesis — one-piece mahogany, twenty-four stainless steel frets — but drawn for low tunings and fast hands.
- Galassia
- Ossidiana
- Orchidea
- Abisso
- Boreale
- Marea
- Gesso
- Tabacco
8 finishes available — and this is not a closed list
What sets it apart
The extended horns are not styling
They move where the strap holds the instrument, and with it the balance: the headstock stops dropping and the left hand goes back to playing instead of holding. On a guitar you use standing up for two hours, that is the difference you feel the next day.
Twenty-four frets, always
Not one option out of two: the Nemesis is drawn around two full octaves, and the neck pickup already sits where that layout wants it. Nobody comes to this model looking for the voice of a twenty-two.
Black with micro-flake
Standing still it is a full gloss black. Catch it with a raking light and the micro-flake suspended in the finish lights up, and the colour shifts with the angle: it photographs badly and looks superb in the room. Black is the standard — other colours are chosen at the order.
The whole of it
Fenice, headstock to bridge.
Photographs of Fenice
The black
The micro-flake lights up edge-on.
Twelve seconds on the body, no editing. Held still it is a full black; as the light crosses it edge-on, the micro-flake suspended in the finish lights up. It is the one thing about this guitar a photograph cannot say.
Specifications
What is settled, and what you settle.
It is the model
They do not change: they are what makes this a Fenice.
- Scale length
- 648 mm25.5 inches
- Fretboard radius
- 16″
- Neck width, six strings
- 43 mm at the nut · 57.2 mm at the last fret1.69 · 2.25 inches
- Neck width, seven strings
- 48 mm at the nut · 66 mm at the last fret1.89 · 2.60 inches
- Body
- One-piece select mahogany · Alder
- Frets
- 24, 2.80 mm stainless steel jumbo
- Pots
- 500 kΩ
- Truss rod
- Dual action, with two carbon fibre rodsThe rods can be left out on request
- Pickups
- De GattisWound in the workshop, one at a time
- Body finish
- Gloss polyurethane with micro-flakeBlack as standard; other colours at the order
- Fretboard finish
- Tru-Oil
- Case
- ABS hard caseIncluded
- Certificate of authenticity
- Numbered, dated and signed by handIncluded
You choose
Every line here is a conversation, not a drop-down.
- Number of strings
- 6 · 7
- Neck
- Select mahogany · Curly maple · Wenge
- Fretboard
- Pau ferro · Ebony · Pale moon · Curly maple · Rosewood
- Nut
- Bone · Tusq
- Colour
- Black with micro-flake · other combinations on requestThe flake is chosen separately from the base coat: it changes the colour that lights up
- Pickup brand
- De Gattis · other brands on requestDe Gattis are standard because we wind them ourselves; another brand gets fitted for anyone arriving with something specific in mind
- Headstock
- 6 in line · 6 in line, reverse · 4 + 2 · 4 + 2, reverse · 3 + 3 · SlottedOn seven strings the shapes are 4 + 3 and 3 + 4 reverse
- Tuners
- Gotoh · Schaller
- Bridge
- Gotoh · Schaller
- Fret markers
- Mother of pearl · Abalone · Luminlay
- Neck joint
- Bolt-on · Set neck
- Neck finish
- Gloss · Satin
The switch
What it sounds like, in every position.
As standard
Neck
Neck + bridge
Bridge
With the tone control up
The push-pull on the tone leaves both humbuckers running on one coil: on an instrument built for low tunings, that is how you get definition back without changing pickups.
Neck
Neck + bridge
Bridge
And now
Carry on building it.
The green lines above are yours to decide. In the Custom Shop you pick them one by one, and at the end it is the luthier who writes back, not a form.