Blade

$789.00

The PHRED instruments Blade guitar is a neck through laminate maple neck with laminate body wings. The body features three single coil pickups stacked near a tremolo style bridge, discrete on/off mini toggles for each pickup, volume and tone.  Also included is our built-in pre-amp and 9V battery providing a low impedance output to preserve clarity and high frequencies.  Our Blade guitar is inspired by the Modulus Blackknife guitar, minus the graphite neck.

Order fulfillment is currently estimated at 12 months because we are working on fulfilling a backlog of pre-orders.

Hard Shell Case

Protect your guitar with a Hard Shell Case. Case dimensions are approximately 42"x15"x5".

Case

USA Re-wire and Electronics (Blade Guitar)

Re-wire the entire guitar with CTS or Bournes pots, Orange Drop Capacitors, Switchcraft output jack(s), and new mini toggles. In addition to upgrading your tone, you'll get smoother turning knobs and higher quality mini toggles.

Electronics

Pickup Installation

Replaces the stock pickups with EMA SA Active Pickups loaded with Alnico V bar Magnets.

Tuning Machines

Upgrade the stock tuners with the following 6-inline tuning machine heads.

Tuning Machines

Nut Type

Replace the stock bone nut with a brass nut to enhance the guitar's natural sustain and brightness.

Nut

A brass nut improves sustain and brightens the tone of the open strings. When playing chords and soloing, your fingers, frets and bridge have more influence on tone than a brass nut.

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Blade Videos

Phred Instruments Blade Guitar Review by Mike Urbon (Neon Avenue) - Tribute to Modulus Blackknife
Phred Instruments Blade Guitar Review by Mike Urbon (Neon Avenue) - Tribute to Modulus Blackknife
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Weir Grateful Episode 11 Review of The PHRED Instruments Blade Guitar Bob Weir Grateful Dead
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The PHRED instruments Blade guitar is a neck through laminate maple neck with laminate body wings. The body features three single coil pickups stacked near a tremolo style bridge, discrete on/off mini toggles for each pickup, volume and tone.  Also included is our built-in pre-amp and 9V battery providing a low impedance output to preserve clarity and high frequencies.  Our Blade guitar is inspired by the Modulus Blackknife guitar, minus the graphite neck.

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13-point Setup

Our 13-point setup and inspection ensures that every PHRED Instruments guitar we ship is professionally setup and ready to play when it’s delivered to you. Setup will include string-height adjustment, intonation, electronics inspection, and the frets are leveled, crowned, and polished, as outlined below.


Fretwork and Fingerboard

1. Debur Fret Edges
This process involves filing the edges of each fret such that the edge of the fretboard feels smooth as you play up and down the neck.
2. Level Frets
Leveling all the frets ensures that you can play at low string action and with clear and articulated notes on each fret.
3. Crown Frets
After leveling the frets, they are crowned. Crowning frets is a process by which the frets are rounded slightly at the top. This makes the frets feel nice and smooth all around, ensures smooth bends, and also makes it easy to slide up and down the fretboard.
4. Polish Frets
After crowning the frets, polishing makes them shine brightly. Polishing them also makes them even more smooth to the touch.
5. Condition the fingerboard
The fretboard wood is cleaned and conditioned using fretboard oil.


Setup

6. Adjust Truss Rod
The truss rod should be adjusted such that the neck is slightly concave.
7. Adjust Nut
The nut height is adjusted to the fingerboard, and the string slots are filed to a perfect height and width for the strings we install
8. Adjust the Bridge Height
As a part of setting the string action, the bridge height is adjusted to our standard measurement of 1.75mm above the 12th fret on the low E string, and 1.5mm above the 12th fret on the high E string. We leave a little bit of room if you want to adjust the bridge a bit lower than that.
9. Adjust the Bridge Saddles
Intonation is set by adjusting the bridge saddles. We tune up and stretch a fresh set of strings, and then adjust the bridge saddle position until the harmonic at the 12th fret compared to the note at the 12th fret.


Pickups

10. Adjust pickup height
The height of the pickup is adjusted such that the perceived volume is consistent between each of the pickups installed on the guitar.


Electronics

11. Inspect and test electronics
Whether you upgrade to our USA wiring option or go with the stock wiring and electronics, we are going to make sure all the electronics work properly prior to shipping. For guitars that have an OBEL jack, we wire it Tip=Send, Ring=Return.


Strings

12. Install D’Addario 10-46 gauge strings
We install D’Addario EXL 10-46 gauge strings on all guitars. If you prefer a different brand or string gauge, contact us and we can accommodate other brands and string gauges, and adjust the setup accordingly to the strings that you prefer to use.


Guitar Body & Hardware

13. Clean and polish the guitar body and hardware
Just before we package up a guitar for shipping, we clean and polish your guitar using StewMac Guitar Polish to make it shine.

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    Body
    Body Style Neck Through
    Body Wood 7-layer laminate consisting of Mahogany, Blackwood, Maple
    Neck
    Scale Length 25 1/2"
    Frets 22 Medium Jumbo
    Neck Wood 5-ply, Maple & Walnut
    Neck Binding Black with White Dots
    Fretboard Wood Ebony
    Fretboard Inlays White Dot
    Fretboard Radius 14 inch
    Neck Stabilization Double-Expanding Truss Rod
    Nut Width 1 11/16" (43mm)
    Nut Material Bone
    Headstock
    Tuning Machines Unbranded Stock Tuners
    Pickups
    Neck Pickup Single Coil (2-wire)
    Neck Pickup Color Black
    Middle Pickup Single Coil (2-wire)
    Middle Pickup Color Black
    Bridge Pickup Single Coil (2-wire)
    Bridge Pickup Color Black
    Hardware
    Bridge Style Tremolo with Whammy Bar
    Control Knobs and Toggles
    Volume Knob(s) 1 Main Volume Knob
    Tone Knob(s) 1 Tone Knob
    Pickup Toggle Discrete On/Off Toggles
    Electronics and Wiring
    Pre-amp / Buffer Yes (Requires 9V battery)
    Battery Box Yes (9V Battery Included)
    Output
    Output Jack(s) 1 Standard Mono Guitar Output Jack
    Output Jack(s) Notes Plugging a guitar cable into the mono guitar output jack powers on the pre-amp.
    Other Specs
    Guitar Strings D'Addario EXL 110 Nickel Wound 10-46
    Guitar Dimensions TBD
    Guitar Weight TBD