Fernandes Retrorocket Elite Electric Guitar - 2 Tone Sunburst

Item #: MG.FER-RRE082SB

List Price: $1599.00
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Electric Guitar. Collection: Retrorocket. Made by Fernandes. (MG.FER-RRE082SB)

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Retrorocket Elite Electric Guitar

Both novice and experienced guitarists agree that the Retrorocket is a no-frills tone machine, with quality craftsmanship, a classic appearance and a comfortable neck. The Retrorocket Elite, heralded as "the ultimate performance guitar" by touring and studio guitarists alike, brings together traditional styling with modern versatility. Featuring a lightweight Swamp Ash body, 5A Quilted Maple top, set-thru Maple neck,22-fret Maple fingerboard, three single size pickup configuration including the renowned Seymour Duncan Hot Rails™ pickup in the bridge position, custom perloid pickguard, Wilkinson™ tremolo system, Locking tuners and comes equipped with the 3-mode Fernandes Sustainer™ System with intensity control, for maximum sustain at the flick of a switch.

The Retrorocket Elite features the Fernandes Sustainer® bringing the power of infinite sustain at an affordable price. Since the 1960's, electric guitar players have been searching for an effective way to control sustain and feedback. The Fernandes Sustainer® puts that power at your fingertips. Fernandes has a patented technology that allows players to produce Hendrix-like textures and tonal colorings at any volume level. The Sustainer works with single notes or chords and can be adjusted to give swells or a gradual decay to the sustain. The Fernandes Sustainer® is a specially designed electronic system for electric guitar that creates controllable sustain of any single or group of notes in the instrument's sound range. This means that the string(s) will ring at constant intensity indefinitely until stopped, regardless of output and location, even if your guitar is not connected to an amplifier!

What Can the Fernandes Sustainer® do for you?

Bring your creativity to new levels by using the Sustainer with any combination of gear in your arsenal of effects, amp modelers and home recording equipment. Discover new sounds exploring the world of controlled sustain and feedback. How do you get natural sustain using digital effects? The Fernandes Sustainer® is the way!

How does it work?

The patented Fernandes Sustainer® system generates a magnetic field causing the strings of the guitar to vibrate. Powered by a 9-Volt battery, the interaction of the bridge humbucking pickup(B), the Sustainer Circuit Board(C) and the neck Sustainer Driver pickup(A), projects magnetic pulses that continuously vibrate the strings of the guitar, the same way an amplifier at extreme volume would do, yet totally controlled! The result is infinite sustain and/or feedback using sparkly clean or loud distorted settings without the need for excessive volume or extra outboard gear!

Specifications:

Body: 5A Quilted Maple Top + Ash Back
Neck: Maple, Set Neck Through
Fingerboard: Maple, 25 1/2" Scale, 22 Jumbo Frets, 14" Radius, Abalone Dot Inlays
Nut: Graphtech TREM NUT
Tuning Gears: Lock Type
Bridge: Wilkinson Tremolo
Features: FERNANDES SUSTAINER SYSTEM
Controls: 5-Way Lever Switch, SUSTAINER ON/OFF & Mode Switches, 1 Volume, 1 Tone, 1 Sustainer Intensity
Pickups:
- Neck: SUSTAINER
- Middle: Seymour Duncan SHR-1N
- Bridge: Seymour Duncan Hot Rails
Color: 2-Tone Sunburst

Customer Rating: 5.0 Overall Customer Rating

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Customer Rating Reviewed on 10/21/2011 by David L.

I purchased the Fernandes Retrorocket Elite because I wanted a Sustainer and didn't want to have someone take a router to the back of one of my other guitars to install one. Little did I know that the Retrocket Elite was going to turn out to be one of the nicest guitars I own.

The neck on this guitar is probably as close to perfect as any neck I've ever played. Incredibly smooth and perfectly shaped - slim but not too slim from frets one through seven, and then it gets nice and meaty as you move down to the 22nd fret. The fretwork, particularly the fret ends, is literally as good as I've ever seen. The fact that this is a set neck rather than a bolt-on makes for perfectly smooth and easy access to the upper frets - far superior to any bolt-on Strat. The fit and finish on this guitar is impeccable. The Swamp Ash body is a little heavier than Alder and the result is that this is a solid guitar, noticeably heavier than my Fender Eric Johnson, but not too heavy at all.

As for the Sustainer, I love it as much as I thought I would and it becomes something that is hard to live without. I wish every one of my guitars had one. As for battery usage, I've only had two battery changes so far so, in my experience, excessive changing of batteries has not been a consideration. The pickups are hot and they are actually very nice. Though I am hooked on DiMarzio Evolutions and Fender Eric Johnson pickups, I am reluctant to change the middle and bridge pickups because, as a whole, this guitar is so satisfying and has its own identity and character to a degree that I honestly don't want to risk disturbing it in any way. The trem unit is excellent. The first Wilkinson trem I've ever had. My only quibble with it is that it requires tightening of the tremolo bar with a hex key to keep it from falling out of the bridge and I always find that to be a pain.

To sum up, I have quite a few guitars, many of which are high-end instruments and, after owning one of these, I am amazed that Fernandes has not captured a much larger portion of the market, especially with this guitar because, for what you get, the $1199 that I paid for this was money well spent. An absolutely superior instrument.

Customer Rating Reviewed on 7/19/2001 by Stephen W.

I can find no flaws with the Fernandes. It sounds great, is easy to play is very good value for the money. I am totally satisfied with it

Features: This is a Japaneese made guitar with an alder body and maple neck. It is a stratocaster style double cut-out with 21 frets and 3 single coil pickups. It has a volume and 2 tone controls and standard tremolo. It has a through body bridge. The color is electric blue.

Playability: The action is execllent on this guitar. It plays very well

Sound: I use a Washburn Bad Dog 25 Watt amp with reverb. I am just learning to play this guitar but I have heard metal, traditional rock and country played on this guitar and all styles sounded excellent.

Durability: It seems to be a very good guitar that stays in tune. I take this guitar with me to work once a week on days that I have class, and it travels well. I think it is going to be a very durable guitar.