Suhr Pro Series S3 Dealer Select GG Orange 2011 Electric Guitar

This is a Suhr Pro Series S3 Dealer Select electric guitar in Custom GG Orange finish with matching headstock. Suhr guitars are the work of John Suhr, who started his career as a guitar technician at Rudy’s Music Stop in NYC. He began building guitars in 1974; creating Mark Knopfler’s famous signature model under the Pensa-Suhr name in 1984.

Made in the USA, this guitar is a custom order of 3 of 5 guitars that were commissioned by Guitar Guitar, features include a bolt-on construction comprising a Basswood body with a Flamed Maple top, Maple neck and a 22 Stainless Steel fret Indian Rosewood fingerboard. This guitar is equipped with Chrome hardware including a Gotoh 510 2-Post tremolo bridge with Steel Block Saddles, a Tusq nut and a set of Sperzel locking tuning machines. The pickups are installed in an HSS configuration, with a Suhr Aldrich humbucker in the bridge and a pair of Suhr JST ML/Mike Landau single-coils in the neck & middle positions. These are wired to a 5-way selector switch, master volume and a master tone control.

The Maple neck sits comfortably in the hand, with the Even Slim ‘C’ profile feeling slender, whilst the Satin finish which has been lightly polished to a Gloss to the rear of the neck provides a comfortable, smooth and articulate playing experience up and down the neck. The Maple fingerboard is pleasant to the touch, and with its 10”-14” compound radius and Jumbo Stainless Steel frets assist with string bends and vibrato techniques, delivering a tailored ‘modern’’ playing experience in any position, whilst offering a nice balance between comfortable chord playing and practicality for quick lead lines. The double cutaway body design allows for great access to the instruments highest frets, allowing the player to make the most of the entire register.

The Suhr JST ML/Mike Landau single-coils pickups deliver quintessential ‘Strat’ sounds with a dash of Suhr’s signature refinement. They sound sparkly with a hint of darkness, whilst retaining clarity with each note. The Suhr Aldrich humbucker in the bridge provides a bright & snappy tone without sounding at all brittle or harsh, and with a hot output can drive your amp into a searing overdrive tone for rock rhythm parts. However, with subtler amp settings the bridge offers a glassy clean tone. The middle position provides bright trebles and full warm bass, and lends itself well to rhythm tones. The neck pickup offers a smooth, warm, rounded tone that handles distorted tones as well as it handles clean tones. The simplistic controls offer the player a great platform that is ready for whatever is thrown at it.