Blackbeard Guitars Brontolo Double Packs Modern Pickups Into a Vintage Relic
Italy’s Blackbeard Guitars recently shared the Brontolo Double, and it’s our bass of the week.
The Telecaster-style bass sports a short 30-inch scale and a poplar thinline body. Its top is curly poplar, finished in a dark sunburst for a rustic look, matched by extensive relicing. Blackbeard fit it with vintage Gotoh hardware, and nearly every piece of metal on the bass looks like it’s from decades past.
The Brontolo Double’s pickups are not quite what they seem. The mudbucker has neodymium magnets, and the bridge pickup is actually a neodymium humbucker in a P51-shaped housing. They’re controlled with a three-way selector switch and master volume and tone knobs.
Finally, the aluminum pickguard’s paisley design brings Western flair to the old-school vibe.
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Blackbeard Guitars Brontolo Double Specs:
| Scale: | 30″ |
| Body: | Poplar |
| Top: | Curly Poplar |
| Neck: | Ash |
| Fingerboard: | Wenge |
| Fingerboard Radius: | 9.5″ |
| Frets: | 20 |
| Inlays: | Dot |
| Pickups: | Neodymium Mudbucker, Neodymium Humbucker in p51 Cover |
| Electronics: | Passive |
| Bridge: | Vintage Gotoh |
| Tuners: | Vintage Gotoh |
| Finish: | Dark Sunburst Relic |
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