Valley Arts Brent Mason Signature Model Electric Guitar

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Maple neck. Swamp ash body. Gibson mini-humbucker, Duncan Hot Stack, and Duncan vintage lead stack pickups.

Brent's personal guitar is a classic, customized player's instrument, which is exactly the kind of guitar that Valley Arts specializes in. The Valley Arts Brent Mason Signature is the ultimate player's guitar, designed by the ultimate player.

As a professional guitarist, Brent Mason has demonstrated his virtuosity on sessions with an A-list of country and pop stars including Alabama, George Strait, Willie Nelson, Shania Twain, Aaron Neville, Trisha Yearwood, Randy Travis and Neil Diamond. He is a multiple winner of both the Country Music Association's Musician of the Year and the Academy of Country Music's Guitarist of the Year awards. His full range of talents came shining through with his debut album in 1997, Hot Wired, and he has revealed some of the secrets of his trade in his popular instructional video, "Brent Mason's Nashville Chops & Western Swing Guitar."

Size: full

Body wood: swamp ash

Neck wood: maple

Fingerboard wood: maple

Fingerboard scale: 25.5 in.

Fingerboard frets: 22

Nut width: 1.687 in.

Fingerboard inlays: dots

Tailpiece: chrome hardtail

Tuners: satin chrome locking Sperzel

Controls: 3 knob: neck & bridge volume, middle volume, master tone/series-parallel for middle pickup

Switch: 3-way

Pickups: Gibson mini-humbucker (neck), Duncan Hot Stack (middle), Duncan vintage lead stack (bridge)

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 800-4GIBSON

Submitted August 27, 2011

"Been a full time player for 37 years. This guitar has it all!!"

Overall: 4 out of 5 stars
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This too would be a 10 if Gibson supported it as they should.
Sound
I play professionally every day. Never even seen one of these until about two month ago. Now its my go to guitar. Great neck=Great sound. Pups are super. I'm looking for another to purchase now for back-up.
Features
Materials and components are top shelf.
Ease of Use
Articulates better than any guitar I've ever has. I currently own 37 top of the line guitars and I can't remember all the ones I have sold or traded.
Quality
As good as it gets.
Value
I'd say worth every cent.
Manufacturer Support
I guess Gibson is the co. owning this design now but they do not support this guitar at all.
The Wow Factor
Some think the headstock is fugly but I love it. Sets it apart from the rest as it should be.
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