Faith FKM Mercury

£459.00
£539.00

Parlour Guitar

Featuring Patrick James Eggles’ X-Brace Design

  • Solid Spruce Top
  • Solid Mahogany Back & Sides
  • Mahogany Neck
  • Rosewood Fingerboard
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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