$3,100
Excellent Shape
Valery Vaschenko is a master builder in Belarus. He is well known for hand making guitars to customer specs. I purchased this guitar from the original owner. It has never been gigged or travelled outside a smoke free, climate controlled environment.
It is in very good shape, There are only a couple of small marks on the back and some very light finish checking on the back of the headstock. The frets show no visible wear.
Most of Valery's guitars are Les Paul type models. However, this is a one of a kind model more aligned with the PRS Single cut. It features a 1-piece 5A flame Maple top over a Claro Walnut body. It has 1 volume and 2 tone knobs - utilizing push/pull tone pots to switch pickups between series/parallel and in/out phase. As you would expect from a Vaschenko guitar, it sounds and plays great.
Here is a video demo from Valery - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRf-i7o6DiQ&ab_channel=ValeraVaschenko
The full specs are as follows:
- Guitar Body - Claro Walnut flame 5A 1 piece
- Body type - semi-hollow, F-hole
- Guitar top - Single piece white flamed maple 5A
- Guitar neck - Claro Walnut quarter sawn1 piece
- Fretboard – Macassar ebony
- Fretwire - Jescar - .100 x .051 S
- Neck binding - no
- Body binding - Maple clear coat (same as top but with clear coating)
- Headstock - Claro Walnut flame
- Headstock inlay - VV
- Tuners- Schaller M6 Tuners with Macassar Ebony Buttons
- Nut - Mastadon Bone
- Bridge – PRS ACC-4007 tremolo bridge
- Jack- Swithcraft
- Jack plate - metal
- Neck Inlay - Style B from DePaule Supply
- Neck Side - dot MOP
- Strap buttons - Hantug Titanium
- Pickup rings - Claro Walnut
- Truss rod cover - Claro Walnut flame match
- Volume Potentiometer -Seymour Duncan 500K Smooth-Turning
- Tone Potentiometers - 2 Potentiometers Bourns 500K short push/pull
- Toggle switch - Switchcraft 3-way Toggle Switch
- Capacitors - Sprague Vitamin Q .022 400V 196P Capacitors
- Knobs - Claro Walnut Volume/Tone knobs
- Electronics plates - Claro Walnut flame matching
- Spring cavity plates- Claro Walnut flame matching
- Pickguard - None
- Pickups – Seymour Duncan Custom Shop trembucker (bridge), humbucker (neck), alnico IV wound to Saturday Night Special specs
- Neck Radius - 12 degrees
- Frets - 22
- Neck Joint - Long tenon
- Neck Carve - C profile
- Cabling - pickups Historic steel jacket
- Cabling - switch Historic steel jacket
- Cabling - jack Historic steel jacket
- Wiring Style - 50's style
- Shielding - copper tape
- Truss rod - Single rod
- Truss rod bolt and headstock assembly - Vaschenko 2-way
- Headstock style - Vaschenko
- Neck width @ Nut 1.75" (44.5mm)
- Neck width @ Heel 2 1/4" ” (57.15mm)
- Neck depth @ first fret 0.893" (22.6mm)
- Neck depth @ 11th fret 0.945"(24mm) )
- Scale Length 25"
- Finish Nitrocellulose lacquer
- Weight – 8 lbs 7 oz
Comes with the Gator hard case that is original to the guitar.
