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Hymn Gabriel J Serial# 005 Tempered Yellow Pine NEW
€ 3.990,00This is a new builder from the Netherlands. Handbuilt guitars with the finest woods and parts. Please read the full story below:
About Hymn
A Hymn is a song of praise for something, or someone, meaningful. The guitar as an instrument and music certainly earns to be praised and thus the name is fitting. It is also an anagram of the name of the builder, Michiel Nykamp. Reusing the letters and ending on the initials feels right.
Michiel started as an aeronautical engineering degree and to this present day, is active in the aerospace industry as an industrialization and program manager for aircraft components. Combining ambition, creativity, stubbornness (?) and professional background lit the fire to start Hymn Guitars as a company. Releasing an all new, clean sheet, guitar design into the world.
The offset design is a nudge to vintage designs from the 50’and 60’s, but with a modern take. Offset guitars offer an unprecedented feel of comfort and, let’s be honest, look cool and fast. The platform is fully customizable within a fixed set of parameters. You can personalize your guitar by choosing you own colors, pickguard materials, bridges, pickups, frets, tuners and neck sizes. So, go ahead, and play your own song!
No matter what you choose, or if you pickup one that is on stock at the dealer, you will receive a unique and lightweight guitar that will ring like a bell and play as good as the best in the market. Using tempered woods (pine and maple) will assure great resonance, feel and tone. Utilizing a PLEK-machine, CNC in combination with handcrafted attention to every detail, will provide a high quality product. The super thin nitrocellulose finish brings out the textured and unique look of the pine bodies. Not having that piano gloss finish is meant to encourage you to play and not worry about marks and scratches. It will quickly age and make it your guitar, your favorite, the one that just wants you to go at it. Play Your Own Song!
The Models
The models are named after the archangels as seems fitting with the name Hymn. And, Michiel was actually derived from Michaël. So there you have it..
“Michaël”
The Michaël features a 25,5” inch scale neck with a 9,5” radius to start with. 6 in-line tuners, Jescar frets, Tempered Pine Body and Tempered Maple Neck. The rest, well, is up to you…
The Michaël is offered in 4 sub-models;
- J (azzmaster bridge and vibrato)
- S (trat, with 3 single coil Pu and Jazzmaster bridge and vibrato, 5-way, or double 3-way)
- T (ele, with a Tele bridge)
- G (with stoptail and TOM bridge).
Pickups are optional. We use Lollar and Kloppmann Pickups.
Fingerboard wood options are Rosewood, Ebony or Maple. Binding and/or Block inlays are an option in black, crème or white. No fret-ends is also an option on a none-binding fingerboard. Pickguards can be made from plastic of acrylic sheets. The options are endless, as are the nitro colors.
The guitar will shop in a high end Reunion Blues Soft Case or Gator Hardshell Case
“Gabriël”
The Gabriël is a semi-hollow version of the Michaël. It also features a 25,5” inch scale neck with a 9,5” radius to start with. 6 in-line tuners, Jescar frets, Tempered Pine Body and Tempered Maple Neck. Same body outline, but with a unique F-hole design and binding around the top. The back can either be contoured with a belly cut, or also have binding. The Gabriël is offered in the same sub-models as the Michaël; J, S, T or G.
- J (azzmaster bridge and vibrato)
- S (trat, with 3 single coil Pu and Jazzmaster bridge and vibrato, 5-way, or double 3-way)
- T (ele, with a Tele bridge)
- G (with stoptail and TOM bridge).
Pickups are optional. We use Lollar and Kloppmann Pickups.
Fingerboard wood options are Rosewood, Ebony or Maple. Binding and/or Block inlays are an option in black, crème or white. No fret-ends is also an option on a none-binding fingerboard. Pickguards can be made from plastic of acrylic sheets. The options are endless, as are the nitro colors.
The guitar will shop in a high end Reunion Blues Soft Case or Gator Hardshell Case.
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