Body: Laminated figured maple
Neck: Glued-in
Fingerboard: Rosewood, 350mm (13.75”) radius
Frets: 22
Scale length: 648mm (25.5”)
Pickups: Two DiMarzio Q100 humbuckers
Controls: Three-position pickup selector, two volumes, two tones (each with coil split push-push switch)
Bridge: Six-saddle fixed type, bar tailpiece (1500) or Bigsby vibrato tailpiece (1500B)
The semi-thinline AES1500, a classy, comfortable archtop cutaway design, is an instrument that successfully straddles the rock, country and jazz genres. The two custom Q100 DiMarzio humbuckers possess a powerful warmth perfectly balanced by the clear, well defined cut-through of the maple body construction. Moreover, each pickup can be coil split, which in conjunction with the three-way pickup selector lends a whole new dimension of tonal versatility and subtlety.
For added appeal to the country and rock ‘n’ roll performer, the guitar is also available as the AES1500B, feauring a high quality Bigsby vibrato tailpiece system.