FMEBLM-BNC – Blue Moon Mercury Electro Scoop
Model Overview
A truly stunning, exotic beauty with a distinctive voice.
The Mercury Blue Moon is a truly individual instrument. One of the beauties of genuinely solid, natural tonewoods is that each piece of solid timber used will vary in its natural colouration and its particular grain patterns. So your Blue Moon will be as unique as you and your music.
Tonally, Mango has an interesting character. It is not as loud and punchy as rosewood nor as straightforwardly mellow as mahogany, yet it bears its own distinctive warmth. With frequency prominence starting a little below that of mahogany and dropping off a little earlier in the mid-range, the overall tone could be described as dark and moody. Much like maple guitars, the reduced level of resonant overtones makes the Mango-bodied Blue Moon a perfect stage guitar: Eminently controllable, balanced and resistant to feedback.
Mango trees grow freely right across the Indonesian archipelago, so the timbers used on Blue Moon guitars are sourced close to our workshops in Java, Indonesia, and as always, from certified timber merchants.
Finished with flamed Maple binding, Macassan Ebony fittings, Fishman Electronics and complete in a hard case, your Faith Mercury Blue Moon is sure to intrigue and delight you at every turn.
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.
Fishman Pre-Amp / Pickup
This Faith Guitar is fitted with the refined, low-profile Fishman INK3 preamp system with the Sonicore piezo pickup located under the saddle. The preamp features a chromatic tuner, 3 band EQ and volume control. The output jack is located at the base of the guitar as part of the ingenious, easy-access battery compartment.
TYPE : Parlour
MATERIAL
TOP : Solid Figured Java Mango
BACK AND SIDES : Solid Figured Java Mango
NECK : Mahogany
FINGERBOARD : Macassan Figured Ebony
FRETS : 18
BINDING : Flamed Maple
NUT : Tusq
SADDLE : Tusq
ROSETTE : Abalone / Fibre
INLAY : Mother Of Pearl ‘F’ (12th Fret)
BRIDGE : Macassan Figured Ebony
BRIDGE PINS : Macassan Figured Ebony With Abalone Dots
MACHINE HEADS : Chrome Grover Rotomatic
PICKUP : Fishman INK 3
PICKGUARD : None
FINISH : Gloss Polyurethane
STRINGS : 12-53 80/20
CASE : Hardcase
STRAP BUTTON : Both
SPECS
OVERALL LENGTH : 970mm
BODY LENGTH : 500mm
LOWER BOUT : 340mm
WAIST : 195mm
DEPTH : 110mm
SCALE LENGTH : 610mm
NUT WIDTH : 43mm
STRING SPACING NUT :36.9mm
AVERAGE STRING SPACING NUT : 7.3mm
STRING SPACING SADDLE : 55.5mm
AVERAGE STRING SPACING SADDLE : 10.4mm
FINGERBOARD RADIUS : 16”
NECK THICKNESS @1ST FRET : 20.79mm
NECK THICKNESS @ 9TH FRET : 24.1mm
SOUNDHOLE DIAMETER : 99mm
