Harvey Citron (Citron Guitars) introduced three new instruments at Winter NAMM this year. The first is the Citron HG. It is 2 1/2" thick, mostly hollow Acoustic/Electric 6-string guitar. It has a Mahogany body with a Quilted Maple top, one-piece Mahogany neck with Rosewood fingerboard. The bridge is Rosewood with a wide custom-compensated bone nut, and strings that go through the body. The pickups are custom-blended humbuckers that are hand-wound using multiple gauges of wire in each pickup. Each pickup is voiced for its position.
The second instrument is the Citron 4-string J bass. It is a 2" thick version of a Jazz, with a Maple top over an Ash body, which is bored out and honeycombed. The neck is three-piece laminated Maple, with a Pau Ferro fingerboard. The strings can go through the body or not. The pickups are either straight Jazz pickups hand-wound or custom-blended using multiple gauges of wire. There is a volume control for each pickup, a passive tone, and treble and bass boost (OPB1by Aguilar).
The third is the Citron AEG-12. It is a 2/12" thick, mostly hollow Acoustic/Electric 12-string guitar, whose body is Mahogany, with a Sitka Spruce top, one-piece Mahogany neck with Ebony fingerboard. The bridge is Macassar Ebony with a wide custom-compensated bone nut, and strings go through the body. The pickup is a Citron single coil P90 style hand-wound. The Alnico 5 magnets are of a different size than usual.
The controls for AEG-12 are master volume, blend (between the magnetic pickup and the Piezo under the bridge saddle by EMG), tone for the magnetic pickups, treble/bass cut and boost for the Piezo by EMG, and a mono/stereo switch that gives you the ability to separate the outputs of the magnetic and Piezo circuits (use a guitar amp for the magnetic pickup, and a really clean amp for thePiezo; separate effects, etc). The guitar runs on 18 volts.
More info at www.citron-guitars.com
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