The Guitar Magazine – September 2019

KEY FEATURES

PRICE £499

DESCRIPTION 6-string solidbody electric guitar.

Made in Indonesia

BUILD Mahogany body with flame-maple

veneer, maple set-through neck with ebony

13.75"/350mm radius, Graph Tech Tusq XL nut,

22 jumbo nickel frets

HARDWARE Chapman Classic closed 18:1 tuners,

string-through hardtail bridge

ELECTRICS 2x Chapman Primordial Zerø

humbuckers, master volume, master tone with

push/pull coil split, 3-way toggle pickup selector

SCALE LENGTH 24.75"/629mm

NECK DEPTH 21.8mm at 1st fret,

24.4mm at 12th fret

NECK WIDTH 43.5mm at nut, 52mm at 12th fret

STRING SPACING 53mm at bridge, 36.2mm at nut

WEIGHT 3.9kg/8.6lb

OPTIONS Left-handed version (no extra cost,

Midnight Sky finish only)

FINISHES Lunar (as reviewed), Black Blood

CONTACT Chapman Guitars chapmanguitars.co.uk

A typically full-bodied clean tone is the
order of the day through our virtual Fender
Tweed patch, but the coil-split affords some
funky tones that you normally wouldn’t
expect from such a sharp-cornered, rock-
orientated behemoth.

The Ghost Fret – indeed the whole

Standard range – is markedly improved and

Chapman has earned the right to be on the

‘must try’ list for those in the market for an

affordable, reliable rock guitar.

LIKE THIS? TRY THESE...

Epiphone Gothic 1958 Explorer £ 379 ,

Dean ZX Flame Top £ 249 , Schecter E-1 Standard £ 729

Big tones with power and clarity

8 /10 from this refined rock machine

The machineheads

are Chapman Classic

closed 18:1 tuners

The bound, contoured

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maple veneer top and a

mahogany back

The Ghost Fret’s neck

has a medium ‘C’

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