Gibson BluesHawk

The BluesHawk is a very special guitar. I love the tone, the way I can change it, the size and weight of the guitar. It's a cool tool. Click Here for sound clips of a BH in action

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You might ask, who plays a BluesHawk?

Well, have a look here. BluesHawk Players.

You notice  a little "chicken" switch on the guitar.  It's called a Variotone.


  What is Variotone?  The Varitone circuit is a notch filter that utilizes a variety of capacitors to achieve a reduction in frequencies at set points within the overall bandwidth. As the Varitone is rotated from Position 1 to Position 6 the center frequency(f0)of the filter shifts from higher to lower frequencies. To learn more, click here.

Some other great links are at the BluesHawk Info site.

 
Diagram courtesy of Gibson Amplifier

This guitar of mine is Chicago Blue and has a Maestro Trem.  The pickups are Blues-90 single coils with a dummy coil  mounted in the back panel (you can see this below) to cut back on hum. What you're almost getting are single coil humbuckers.  If that's confusing, visit the link above for more details.  The Blues-90s are a little less hot than standard P-90s due to a lower number of winds.   Sweet eh?  You can't see too well in the pic, but there are two F holes.  

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Specs:

Body:  Maple top/Poplar back

Neck/Profile:  Mahogany/Narrow with slight V shape

Fingerboard: Inlay Rosewood/Diamond

Scale/Nut Width:  25 1/2"/1 5/8" (Stratocaster length)

Binding:  Single-ply, top

Bridge: On non-Maestro - low-profile  individual saddle adjustable bridge with string-through-body system, no individual bridge and tailpiece.  Combination Bigsby -bridge trem on the Maestro version.

String mounting: through the body on non Maestro

Hardware: Gold

Pickups:Two single coil Blues-90 with hum canceling dummy coil mounted in the back center panel.

Controls:  Master volume, master tone with push/pull pot to disable Varitone, three-way switch, six-way Varitone  

Finish: Chicago Blue Nitrocellulose

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Wiring Diagram Cl

Click the image to downlaod a pdf format of this diagram. (must have Adobe Acrobat)