A Formidable Vintage-modern Axe

If you’ve been searching for an affordable high-performance vintage-modern guitar, your quest may well be over. Built to guitarist extraordinaire Gil Parris’s exacting specifications, the Reverend Gil Parris GPS starts with a traditional comfort-contoured solid body of premium korina, then adds a fast roasted maple neck, state-of-the-art electronics, and proprietary Reverend features that make this amazing instrument much more than the sum of its parts. The GPS is loaded with Fishman’s acclaimed Fluence Single Width pickups, which serve up a broad palette of single-coil tone — without the hum. As a bonus, the Fishman system is famous for being able to drive long cable runs, as quiet as a mouse — even as your guitar roars like a lion. The end result is a guitar that can nail pretty much any musical task you need it to. From sweet ’n’ chimey vintage single-coil sounds to hot, overwound Texas punch, the GPS delivers the goods. Take the Reverend Gil Parris GPS out for a spin. You will be impressed.

Fishman Fluence electronics deliver an arsenal of tone

The Reverend Gil Parris GPS will delight fans of both vintage and more aggressive single-coil pickups. That’s because it’s loaded with a trio of Fishman Fluence Single Width pickups that serve up a rich tonal smorgasbord in two distinct flavors. The vintage voicing is warm and sweet, with crystalline clarity. Perfect for chimey chord work, this setting provides the spank and sparkle we love from classic single coils. Flip over to the other setting, and you’ve got a muscular “Texas” single-coil sound that will make your high-gain solos plow right through the track. Master volume, neck, and middle tone controls, plus a custom Reverend push-pull bridge tone control, complete the setup.

Top-shelf tonewoods, top-drawer components

As do all Reverend guitars and basses, the Gil Parris Signature GPS comprises only the finest tonewoods and components — materials you expect to find on boutique, custom-shop instruments costing considerably more. From its ultra-stable roasted maple neck and Fishman Fluence pickups to its genuine Wilkinson WVS50K vibrato bridge, the GPS is designed from the ground up for high performance. Even the parts you may take for granted are strictly top drawer, such as the Boneite nut and Reverend’s excellent Pin-Lock tuners. Reverend uses high-grade korina (white limba) — coveted for its consistency and harmonic richness — for their guitar and bass bodies. Korina is a highly resonant tonewood, a quality that is further enhanced by this instrument’s high-performance electronics package, which features Fishman’s classic 3-pickup Fluence set, which delivers a versatile range of classic tone without the hum.

Roasted maple neck for enhanced stability

Reverend Guitars uses a proprietary torrefaction (roasting) procedure on the maple neck of the Gil Parris Signature GPS. Heat treating the neck at over 300°F, the process removes sugars, impurities, and almost all the moisture from the wood and collapses the cell walls, which dramatically increases stability, making your guitar much more impervious to humidity and climatic changes; while optimizing resonance, sustain, and overall tone. If you gig far and wide, you’ll appreciate this the next time you play Phoenix after a week in Miami. As roasting removes moisture, it also removes weight, so you can play marathon sets without next-day visits to your chiropractor. Roasting also imparts a rich caramel color for a warm vintage look. But if you ever do need to perform a neck adjustment, Reverend’s dual-action truss rod makes it fast and painless.

• TECH SPECS
• Number of Strings 6
• Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
• BODY
• Body Type Solidbody
• Body Shape Gil Parris GPS
• Body Material Korina
• Body Finish Gloss Polyurethane
• Color Midnight Black
• NECK
• Neck Material Roasted Maple
• Neck Shape Medium Oval
• Neck Joint 6-way Bolt-on
• Radius12"
• Fingerboard MaterialPau Ferro
• Fingerboard InlayBlack Dots
• Number of Frets 22, Nickel Alloy
• Scale Length 25.5"
• Nut Width1.692"
• Nut Material Boneite
• HARDWARE
• Bridge/Tailpiece Wilkinson WVS50K Tremolo
• Tuners Pin-Lock
• ELECTRONICS
• Neck PickupFishman Fluence Single-coil
• Middle PickupFishman Fluence Single-coil
• Bridge PickupFishman Fluence Single-coil
• Controls 1 x master volume, 2 x tone
• Switching 5-way blade pickup switch
• MISCELLANEOUS
• Strings.010-.046
• Case/Gig BagSold Separately
• Manufacturer Part Number:GPS-G-mdbk-RM-FMFMFM-BK-W

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