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Balaguer Espada Select Ambient Semi-Hollow Guitar, Gloss Vintage White

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PLAYER'S PERSPECTIVE

We're legitimately stoked to start carrying these awesome new Select Ambient semi-hollow Espadas from our friends over at Balaguer! Here's one in a classic Vintage White finish.

I'll be honest - as a player myself, picking up this guitar for the first time truly shocked me. This has got to be one of the most underrated models to have been released this year - Balaguer hit an absolute home run. It combines the best aspects of a "JM"-style offset guitar with the tonality and aesthetic sensibilities of a vintage thinline semi-hollow while adding contemporary high-end features like a satin-finished roasted maple neck, locking tuners, a rounded-off neck joint for improved upper-fret access, and stainless steel frets to create something completely new and incredible in its own right.

The Select Ambient Espada features an alder body with the aforementioned roasted maple neck and gorgeous ebony fretboard, a 25.5"-inch scale length and a "JM"-style tremolo bridge, which gives it all the snap, feel and playability of a "JM" offset, but the amazing-sounding foil humbuckers and semi-hollow construction give it the traditional plugged-in tone, air and response of an "ES"-style semi-hollow. The pickups sound fantastic, like low-output PAF humbuckers but with a hint of chime and sparkle reminiscent of Filtertron-style pickups, P90s, or DynaSonics. If that wasn't enough, the coil-splits are very convincing - they could definitely approximate a vintage JM or T-style guitar pretty nicely.

On top of all of that, the craziest thing about this guitar is the price. Bona fide Custom Shop-level features and build quality for under $1500? Like, what?

This is a guitar that needs to be played to be believed, no joke. Come give one a try, you might find it to be your new #1. 

SPECIFICATIONS

Body

  • Body: Alder
  • Color: Solid Vintage White Gloss
  • Body Construction: Semi-Hollow w/ F-Hole
  • Binding: Cream Multi-Ply Front & Rear

Neck

  • Headstock: Modern 6 In-Line with Straight String Pull
  • Scale Length: 25.5" 
  • Neck Construction: Bolt-On, 4-Bolt
  • Neck Material: Roasted Maple
  • Fingerboard Radius: 16"
  • Fingerboard Material: Ebony
  • Binding: Cream
  • Position Inlays: Cream Dots
  • Side Dots: Black
  • Number of Frets: 22 Stainless Steel

Hardware

  • Bridge: J-Style Tremolo
  • Pickguard: 3-Ply Black
  • Control Knobs: Black Top Hat w/ White Lettering
  • Switch Tip: Black
  • Hardware Finish: Chrome
  • Tuning Machines: 18:1 Ratio Locking Tuners

Electronics

  • Bridge Pickup: Evergreen Humbucker w/ Foil Cover
  • Neck Pickup: Evergreen Humbucker w/ Foil Cover
  • Pickup Configuration: HH
  • 1 Volume, 1 Tone w/ Push-Pull Coil Split, 3-Way Selector

Miscellaneous

  • Gig Bag Included
  • Orientation: Right-Hand

Overall Condition

Music Store Live is proud to be an authorized dealer for Balaguer. This Espada Select Ambient is 100% brand new and is being sold with a full manufacturer's warranty.

note: The photos above may not be of the exact guitar you'll receive. The serial number may differ but specs will all be the same. Please feel free to get in touch with us for an in-hand description.

Our in-house guitar tech will inspect, test, set up, and clean all of our instruments on site prior to shipping. All of our instruments are guaranteed to be fully functional upon arrival.