FKM – Naked Mercury
Model Overview
A little beauty, this Mercury is a traditional short-scale parlour model. With the neck joining the body at the 12th fret – rather than the 14th – the strings are held at a slightly lower tension than on regular models. Another implication of the 12th fret join is that the bridge is shifted further from the soundhole.
These features result in a guitar that is physically easier to play, sounds much bigger than you would imagine and is also simple to handle and transport.
The Spruce top and Mahogany body of each of the Faith Naked instruments is 100% solid tonewood – in keeping with all other Faith series. However, the cosmetics and non-essential dressing has been stripped away, leaving the guitars in their natural, Naked state. Satin finished all over, the tonewood is almost entirely unrestricted in its resonant movement, so the tone delivered is far beyond what is normally expected at this price level.
All Naked guitars are now supplied with a padded Faith Gigbag
TYPE : Parlour
MATERIAL
TOP : Solid Engelmann Spruce
BACK AND SIDES : Solid Indonesian Mahogany
NECK : Mahogany
FINGERBOARD : Indian Rosewood
FRETS : 18
BINDING : None
NUT : Nubone Composite
SADDLE : Nubone Composite
ROSETTE : Abalone
INLAY : Mother of Pearl 'F' 12th Fret
BRIDGE : Indonesian Rosewood
BRIDGE PINS : Ebony With Abalone Dots
MACHINE HEADS : Faith Precision Chrome
PICKUPS : None
PICKGUARD : None
FINISH : Satin Polyeurethane
STRINGS : 80/20 12-53
CASE : None
STRAP BUTTON : Both
SPECS
OVERALL LENGTH : 971mm
BODY LENGTH : 501mm
LOWER BOUT : 340mm
WAIST : 197mm
DEPTH : 108mm
SCALE LENGTH : 613mm
NUT WIDTH : 43.13mm
STRING SPACING NUT : 36.6mm
AVERAGE STRING SPACING NUT : 7.13mm
STRING SPACING SADDLE : 54.41mm
AVERAGE STRING SPACING SADDLE : 10.47mm
FINGERBOARD RADIUS : 16"
NECK THICKNESS @1ST FRET : 21.81mm
NECK THICKNESS @ 8TH FRET : 24.89mm
SOUNDHOLE DIAMETER : 98.43mm
