Ormsby TX GTR Multi-Scale 6, Eaton

Full Description

Swamp Ash Body Topped with Flamed Maple

The Ormsby TX GTR is crafted from a lightweight swamp ash body, producing a sweet, resonant tone with pronounced mids, rounded lows, and a bright, chiming top-end. Although the beautiful flaming of the maple top creates a visually captivating aesthetic, the tonewood enhances the swamp ash's natural characteristics with a bright character and a powerful sustain. The body also features Ormsby's easy access neck joint, providing unhindered access to the higher register for a comfortable playing experience.

Smooth Playing Maple Neck & Ebony Fingerboard

A rock maple neck and ebony fingerboard, with a D-shape profile and rounded edges, provides an incredibly smooth and comfortable playing experience. The maple tonewood's beautifully bright sound creates a rounded character, injecting the overall tone with excellent sonic balance and projection. The ebony enhances the maple's natural brightness, delivering a nice snappy sound with powerful lows and rich mids. The addition of a bone nut improves the overall sustain and resonance, bringing out the subtler qualities of the tonewoods.

PVH & Old School Pickups

The TX GTR Ormsby is fitted with a powerful humbucker and sweet sounding single-coil, delivering a versatile performance with captivating tonal possibilities. The bridge features Ormsby’s PVH humbucker, also known as Perry’s Vintage Humbucker, delivering a striking tonal punch for sweet singing leads and overdriven rhythm sections. This crunchy pickup is equipped with alnico V magnets for added brightness, perfect for a wide variety of musical styles. The 'Old School' single-coil neck pickup offers a low output for delivering clean soundscapes, singing leads, and stunning rhythm tones. Fitted with alnico 2 magnets and based on the sweet sounds of famous guitars from the 60s, the 'Old School' offers excellent tones either solo or when combined with the PVH humbucker.

Multiscale

A unique addition to the Ormsby GTR Guitar is the multiscale setup, designed with fanned frets and an angled nut, bridge, and pickups to improve playing comfort and tonal balance across the strings. Ormsby first developed the multiscale after talking with guitarists seeking the ultimate tone, taking inspiration from other instruments that used larger objects to deliver lower notes and the design of the Orpharion. This resulted in a design that ergonomically coordinates with the way the player's hand pivots as it moves up and down the neck, while offering both short and long scales to enhance its tonal possibilities. Another major difference between a multiscale setup and a standard setup is the increase in string tension, improving the overall tone and delivering a more accurate intonation.

High-Quality Hipshot Hardware

To accompany the Ormsby's multiscale setup, the TX GTR Guitar is fitted with custom hardware design by Hipshot Products in the USA, resulting in a high-quality construction and an enhanced performance. Its multiscale bridge is designed to accommodate the different scale lengths, keeping all the strings tensed and balanced. The bridge's string-through-body also improves the guitar's resonance, while its stainless-steel saddles maximise the overall sustain and tone. This Ormsby Guitar also features Hipshot's locking tuners to provide an incredibly stable performance.

About Ormsby

Ormsby Guitars is an Australian company established in 2003/2004 by Peter Ormsby, known for their iconic custom shop guitars and the multiscale design. Peter Ormsby always dreamed of making fine instruments from a young age, starting his work in carpentry before moving on to a cabinet making apprenticeship. It wasn’t long before Peter started designing his first guitar after years of claiming that ''one day he'll make a guitar'', creating the first ''Ormsby'' official dubbed ''The Vine''. Shortly after, clients started lining up for their own custom guitar, resulting in a two year long waiting list within 18 months of the company's launch.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Top: Flamed Maple
• Body: Swamp Ash
• Binding: Pearloid
• Bridge: Custom Hipshot Multiscale (String-Through-Body)
• Construction: Easy-Access Bolt-On
• Finish: Transparent Black

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: Rock Maple
• Profile: 20.3 @ 1st - 22 @ 17th D-Shape w/Rounded Shoulders
• Scale Length: 25.5’’ – 27.2’’ (Multiscale)
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Radius: 16’’
• Frets: 29 Jumbo, Stainless Steel
• Inlays: Mother of Pearl Offset Dots
• Side Dot Inlays: Glow in the Dark
• Nut: Bone
• Nut Width: 43mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: PVH A5 Humbucker
• Neck Pickup: 'Old School' A2 Single-Coil
• Controls: 500k Volume, 500k Tone (Push/Pull), 3-Way Toggle Switch
• Tuners: Hipshot Locking
• Control Knobs: O-Ring
• Pickguard: Pearloid
• Hardware: Black
• Case Included: Fitted & Embossed Hardshell