Duesenberg Alliance Series Joe Walsh Signature Electric Guitar (Gold Burst)

Features

• Semi-Hollow Construction: The Joe Walsh Alliance Series features an unusual extra slim semi-hollow construction. Besides the unique semi-hollow tone, this makes the guitar handle more like a thin solid-body.
• Pickups: The LittleToaster mini-humbucker and SingleTwin Mini noiseless singlecoil deliver an extremely open, responsive and transparent tone. They are one of the most curious combinations in the Duesenberg lineup.
• Plek Processed: A pleked fretboard guarantees perfectly level frets. This is the basis for our fret polishing and setup work all done by hand that eventually makes our instruments play like nothing you have ever played before.

“A Coffee with Joe”

What’s not to like about sitting in a hotel room with Mr. Joe Walsh and talk guitars? Seriously though, meeting Joe was a real privilege. The result of our collaboration is a truly unique instrument directly fitted to Joe’s needs but made for everyone.

The Joe Walsh Alliance Series features numerous different details connected to Joe’s style or history. The fretboard inlays spell his name in morsecode, referencing his passion for radio operation and the Tibetan Knot between both pickups is a symbol of very personal meaning to Joe which he also carries as a tattoo.

LittleToaster & SingleTwin Pickups

A Duesenberg LittleToaster pickup delivers transparent treble tone in the bridge position and the state-of-the-art noise-cancelling Duesenberg SingleTwin Mini gives clear classic neck sounds in any situation. These were a requirement from Joe himself.

Being a serious guitarhead himself, he also likes to mess around with the hardware of his guitars, often resulting in weird hardware finish mixes. So for this reason the hardware of the Alliance Joe Walsh is a mix of nickel and gold.

Custom Radiator Vibrato Unit

The Duesenberg Radiator Tremola is the evolution of our own vibrato system design.

It keeps everything that you love about about our original Diamond Deluxe Vibrato and delivers it in a new and exciting design. Of course we added custom gold accents on the vibrato for Joe's personal model.

Buttery smooth action, reliable tuning stability and string changes that are a breeze are just the main aspects of our unique vibrato design. Heavy duty needle and nylon bearings give you the highly responsive Duesenberg feel when using the vibrato arm. The arm itself can be turned freely for 360° and can be adjusted to your preferred angle and length. The strings are simply guided through the holes in the bar underneath the arm-axis and can be lead to the tuners without any hassle.

Specifications

Neck

• Type: Set Neck, 1-piece Maple
• Width: 42.5 mm / 1.67" (nut), 52 mm / 2.05" (12th fret)
• Thickness: 21 mm / 0.8" (1st fret), 24 mm / 0.95" (12th fret)
• Shape: Medium D
• Fingerboard: Indian Rosewood, radius 305 mm / 12"
• Inlays: Morse code inlays
• Frets: 22 Jumbo 2.8 x 1.0 mm
• Scale length: 648 mm / 25.5"
• Trussrod: Steel dual-action
• Headstock: Matching body colour

Body

• Type: Semi-hollow with sustain block, bent sides, f-hole
• Top: Laminated Spruce
• Back, sides: Laminated flamed Maple
• Dimensions: 46 x 34 cm / 18.11" x 13.38"
• Height (sides): 3.5 cm / 1.4"
• Special artwork: Tibetan Knot Decal
• Binding: Cream, 5-layer purfling
• Pickguard: Custom Gold
• Finish: PUR lacquer

Hardware

• Tuners: Duesenberg Z-Tuners
• Bridge: Duesenberg Steel Saddle Bridge
• Vibrato System: Duesenberg Radiator Tremola (custom golden grill)
• Strap pins: Duesenberg Standard (Straplock compatible)
• Hardware color: Nickel & gold
• Strings: Duesenberg Custom 10/50 (010-013-017-028-042-050)

Electrics

• Pickup (neck): Duesenberg SingleTwin Mini
• Pickup (bridge): Duesenberg LittleToaster
• Wiring: 1 Volume, 1 Tone, 3-Way Pickup Selector

Ships with the Duesenberg Custom Line Case.