frettedamericana | 1 decade ago
We are very proud to present this custom ordered Paoletti 'Nancy Wine Nail Series Millesimata'. This wonderful guitar weighs 8.40 lbs and features a body made from 150-year-old chestnut wine barrels. The body has an oil finish with a thin layer of nitrocellulose, which is enhanced by the placing of 29 brass nails/rivets on the top and 23 brass nails/rivets on the edges. One-piece Honduras mahogany neck with a nut width of just under 1 11/16 inches, a scale length of 25 1/2 inches and a wonderful medium to thick profile. Slab Macassar ebony fretboard with 22 jumbo frets and white dot position markers. Single circular string tree. Headstock with "Paoletti" and "Wine" branded onto face. Individual Gotoh 'Kluson-style' tuners with oval metal buttons. Four-bolt neckplate engraved "Paoletti / Made in Italy / Millesimata". One custom hand-wound Paoletti H-KR humbucker in the neck position with an output of 9.17k, and one Paoletti T-60B single-coli pickup (angled in bridgeplate) with an output of 8.82k. Brass pickguard with five screws. Two controls (one volume, one tone) plus three-way pickup selector switch with black plastic tip, all on brass plate adjoining pickguard. Paoletti brass "Cheddite" cartridge shell style control knobs. Wilkinson 'Tele-style' combined bridge/tailpiece with three individually adjustable brass saddles. This guitar is in mint as new (9.50) condition and is complete with its certificate of authenticity with serial number "18114-14914", signed by Fabrizio Paoletti. Housed in the original Paoletti three-latch rectangular, brown leather hardshell case with light brown plush lining (9.50).
