The Hagstrom Fantomen Black Gloss is a six-string electric guitar that offers legendary playability and technical excellence in an edgier realm.
Built with an asymmetrical solid-mahogany body and neck using a classic mortise-and-tenon joint, the Fantomen is equipped with an H-Expander truss rod and Resinator fingerboard, providing ultimate stability and tonal enhancement. These components combine to create an incredibly stable, resonant and responsive sonic foundation. A relatively thin 1.25” body is balanced and surprisingly lightweight with a 25.5” scale that provides a slightly sharper attack and more sustain than classic 24.75” guitars. The special neck joint design provides total access to all 22 frets.
The Fantomen contains electronics that allow for a varied tonal palette ranging from classic, vintage colours to screaming metallic brilliance. Lundgren provided two different humbucker designs with No. 2 in the neck position and No. 5 in the bridge position. This combination covers a huge expressive range from smooth, warm tones to an extreme attack and intense dynamic output. Each pickup can be split to single-coil mode by means of push/pull switches incorporated into the tone controls for even more sonic flexibility.
Action was a bit high out of the box, but it was easily setup, no fret buzz. Fretwork seems very good, only some small scuffmarks on the neck binding. Pickups sound good, really like the mirror pickguard.
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