The Ventura is a new design. It is a Florentine cutaway, thin body contemporary design with a hand-wound custom Kent Armstrong Humbucker mounted to the top.
This guitar features a solid matched select AAAA Sitka Spruce top. The back and sides are solid select AAA flamed maple with a custom amber finish. Gagnon guitars are finished to an absolutely flawless gloss level with the finest hand-polished lacquer. The fretboard and tailpiece are the finest ebony as is the pickguard. The body is select flamed maple with gorgeous Koa binding. The headstock is faced in the finest African Ebony with the Gagnon marque inlaid in Abalone. The rear of the headstock is trimmed in the same gorgeous figured Koa used to bind the body and cap the heel of the neck. The pickguard is edged in fineline Maple and bound in Koa. The tone control is a recessed thumbwheel along the edge of the pickguard.
S P E C F I C A T I O N S
16 inch tap-tuned handcarved jazz archtop. Matched, hand-carved AAAA Sitka Spruce top. Florentine cutaway.
2 1/2 inch body depth, 1 3/4 width at the nut. Flamed AAA Maple back and sides with accented Koa edge binding.
Hand wound custom Kent Armstrong Humbucker pickup in Ebony case, mounted to the top of the guitar. Ebony volume and tone controls.
Ebony fretboard, tailpiece, pickguard, bridge and headstock. Rear of headstock in figured Koa. Schaller tuners with Ebony keys.
Premium hand-finished spectacular finish in the finest lacquer.
Custom TKL hard case.
This guitar is a model we continually have on order. We buy them as fast as Bill can make them and they vanish just as quickly. The last three guitars Bill built for us were sold in two days! We suggest in the strongest terms that you contact us and inquire what is in production. We do not take deposits unless you order a custom guitar made to your specifications. Custom orders take 4-8 months depending upon complexity of your instrument.
We will put you on a waiting list for all regular production Gagnon models and we will call you when we receive, inspect and set each guitar up. We call customers in the order they are put on the waiting list. If you decline the guitar we call the next person on the list. (You really want to be first on the list)