Artcore is a series of extremely affordable full-hollow and semi-hollow instruments where the quality is astonishingly good. Artcore has completely changed the view of what you can expect to get for your money when buying hollow or semi-hollow instruments. These are guitars that are just as good as a gateway to the world of jazz tins as they are as a main instrument or backup to the klenod guitar for the professional guitarist. An instrument you dare to take out on the road in terms of price without compromising too much on the quality of the instrument.
Easy-to-play, easy-to-handle and well-built instruments. So an instrument series that works just as well for beginners as for full-blooded professionals, and everyone in between.
The AS73FM is a traditional cut rock/blues/fusion/rockabilly guitar with a thinner 335 cut body with a through middle stock. A visually beautiful guitar with a flamed top, which suits almost any style of playing. The pickups are the Ibanez Classic Elite, a dynamic pickup that is well suited for all kinds of sounds up to a reasonably overdriven level. The whole construction, the body and the pickups, means that the guitar thrives best on clean to semi-distorted sounds.
But also works further up to more difficult levels without getting circular spat. You can easily achieve a standard around jazz lead sound without it becoming fuzzy and unfocused or a warm accompaniment sound without losing tonal separation. The pickups have a ceramic magnet. The mics are connected to a 3-position toggle switch and have separate volume and tone for each mic.
• AS Artcore Nyatoh set-in neck.
• Flamed Maple top, back and sides.
• Bound Walnut fretboard with Acrylic block inlay.
• Medium frets.
• Gibraltar Performer bridge.
• Quik Change III tailpiece.
• Classic Elite (H) neck pickup (Passive/Ceramic).
• Classic Elite (H) bridge pickup (Passive/Ceramic).
• Chrome hardware.
Neck:
• Scale: 628mm/24.75".
• Width at nut: 43mm.
• Witch at 22 fret: 57mm.
• Thickness at 1st fret: 21mm.
• Thickness at 9th fret: 24mm.
• Radius: 305mmR.
Body:
• Length: 19 1/4" - 489mm.
• Width: 15 3/4" - 400mm.
• Max Depth: 2 5/8" - 67mm.