FACTORY CROSSTALK
FACTORY CROSSTALK
As for the interplay between the two sides of the house , when Teel and Greene design a new model , it typically spends a year or two in standard production before its features become available to the Custom Shop . An exception to this practice occurred with the Super Dreadnought . “ We did this one in reverse ,” Teel recalls , “ as an experiment , just to see how it would go .”
In short , it went phenomenally well . The point of the experiment was to see just how big a 14-fret D-style guitar could be and still function . And , of course , they wanted to hear how it would sound . “ We built a couple of prototypes ,” Teel says , “ and we were blown away by the sound . It was incredible . Huge . But from a physical standpoint , the body wasn ’ t so large that it became cumbersome to play . It ’ s actually very easy to play . But sonically , on the bass side , we were getting a nearly 12-decibel bump on the fundamentals . The midrange boost was around 6 decibels , and we saw about half that increase on the trebles . So , imagine a regular Dreadnought guitar with the bass and mids turned up , along with a small boost to the trebles . It ’ s really something . Now , that guitar typically would have been introduced in the standard line first and then found its way into the custom side of the house . In this case , though , Custom — and our Expert Dealers — didn ’ t want to wait . So , we decided to go for it . This was actually the first time in our history that we introduced a new body size or a new feature in Custom first and then worked it backwards to the regular factory . Next year you ’ ll be seeing a standard Super Dreadnought 28 . That ’ s coming .”
Custom Shop Super Dreadnought Front & Back
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