Shabat Lynx HSS Alder S-Style w/ Ebony & Lollar Specials/Imperial – Cosmic Blue

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The Lynx offers a lightweight alder or swamp ash body, hand-sanded and contoured to feel right at home. Set in the body is a rock-solid Gotoh Fulcrum Bridge with a steel block to provide fat tones with no tuning issues and a great-feeling tremolo response. Its fast-playing neck profile is still meaty enough to keep the guitar alive, and the Lynx offers a variety of pickup configurations, from SSS to HSS and HSH. 

What Does Josh Think?

This Lollar HSS set consists of a Special S in neck and middle, and high wind Imperial humbucker in the bridge. Starting there, position 1 delivers the punch and control you love in a bridge humbucker. It sounds gutsier in the midrange the more you dig in, and airier and more transparent as you lay back. It is also really easy to coax beautiful vowel tones out of the guitar as you roll back the tone knob.

Impressively, the coil split sounds really good as well. You’re activating the slug coil, the one further from the bridge. So you get a nice rich tone that sounds the best parts of a Strat single coil bridge without the ice picky high notes.

With or without the coil split, position 2 delivers great “in-between” tones. With the split bridge and the middle combined, you get your classic quack and spank, even with a touch of honk that keeps the top strings nice and round. With the bridge pickup in humbucking mode, you get what I equate to a ready-made ‘90s country Strat tone… a bit more output and compression as if you were plugged into your favorite rack gear or juicing up the tone in post.

Skipping forward a few positions and landing on the neck, you get a wonderfully rich and slightly scooped necked tone. Everything in moderation so as not to disturb the balance. But overall, just a bit souped up and ready for everything from chimey cleans to grinding gain.

Position 4 gives you warm and quacky vibes. The upper strings are scooped and open while the bottom end is big and firm. I don’t blame you if you choose to give this position a little extra love. Switching to the middle pickup by itself, you hear the pure but strong contribution of that pickup. The unsung hero of the S-style guitar.

The Gotoh 2-pivot trem is smooth to operate and provides excellent tuning stability that will encourage you to use it generously. The tremolo arm is precision threaded and fits snugly inside a bushing that removes the “play” in a traditional screw-in design. This design also makes it a lot easier to keep the arm in play instead of it dropping out of reach every time you let go.

How Does It Play?

The string action measures just 4/64” at the 12^th fret across all strings. There is no fretbuzz and the fret ends are rounded with Avi’s perfect hotdog ends. The ‘60s Slim C profile is not Wizard thin but pays a nice homage to vintage Strat necks of that era, undeniably classic whilst being equally fast and smooth.

Weight: 7lb 7oz

The G&G custom hard case pictured is included!

Specifications

Body: Alder

Body: Alder

Contours: Neck Heel

Bridge: Gotoh 510TS-FE1 2-point tremolo

Pickups: Lollar Special S & Imperial High Wind

Headstock: 6-in-Line

Tuners: Kluson Deluxe

Inlay: 1/8” Bullseye Dot

Radius: 9.5-12” compound

Scale Length: 25.5”

Neck: Standard Grade Flame Roasted Maple

Fretboard: Ebony

Frets: 22

Fretwire: Dunlop 6105 nickel silver

Nut: 43mm (1.69”) TUSQ

Neck Profile: ‘60s Slim C (0.79-0.92")

Hardware: Aged Nickel

Covers/Knobs: Black

Finish: Cosmic Blue nitro colorshift

Pickguard: 3-ply Black

Aging Level: Medium

Strings: 10 gauge

Tuning: E standard

Case: G&G custom hardshell

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