Noah Guitars are unique handcrafted Aluminum Alloy Body Guitars, built by a small and passionate team of Luthiers and Machinists in Italy. Each is meticulously hollowed out, using Noahs preparatory methods, that you can read further about below. This particular instrument has 1/4" Sawn Rock Maple Neck and a standard depth Hollowed out Aluminum body. The pickups in this guitar are made by TV Jones. The neck position is a PowerTron and the bridge pickup is a Starwood series T-Style with 1/4" magnets, for a fatter T-Armond/Dynasonic like pickup tone. These guitars sound as if one took the crispy warmth of a National Steel Guitar and mixed it with the long sustain of a great Tele. They do not sound brittle at all; actually quite the contrary. Great note to note separation with a deep and rich fat twang. If you are looking for a high-end Aluminum Guitar, they don't get much better than this. Unique tone, classic feel and eye catching aesthetics are the name of the game with Noah Guitars.
From Noah Guitars: Since 1996, NOAH Guitars realizes electric guitars and basses in aeronautical aluminium and locates its laboratories in Lambrate, Milan (Italy) enforcing the handmade tradition characterized by passion and technical competence combined with Italian design. The first NOAH guitar was born from the idea to gather the legacy of two “archetypes”: hybridize National Style “O”’s metal body and its acoustic and aesthetic potentialities with Fender Teles unique timbre and its pure and essential design. In no time, the aluminium bass was born too: the meeting with Stefano Cerri and Saturnino Celani allows the development of the most important specifics and to realize NOAH Excalibur, an electric bass guitar with a unique sound. For more than twenty years now, the two co-founders Renato Ruatti, architect, and Mauro Moia, ex-foreman of an aeronautical industry, have been working together with passion to continue this unique adventure. NOAH Guitars is a project born in the basement, thanks to the moments spent with the friend Giovanni Melis, who deeply desired an “hybrid” guitar; today it stands out among the Milanese artisans recognized as made in Italy excellence. Recently, the team reinforced its competences, officially welcomed Max Pontrelli with role of Master Builder and started an internationalization process, with the yearly participation to important trade shows in the musical field, in Europe and the USA.
Born in 2016 and made in convergence with Marco Pancaldi, NuNOAH Serie shows a deep renewal of the instrument concept: on the fundamental intuition of the aluminium body, for the first time in NOAH’s life, a diversification of the electrical solutions (pickup, controllers) and mechanicals (bridges, vibrato) begins.
All the details of the new instruments are designed to harmoniously integrate technical and musical evolution of the last half century in order to offer to the musician an easy playing and a melodious and reliable instrument. Nut and fret-board get wider, augmenting play-ability of the external strings.
Specs: Body
Aluminium - Hollow – Depth 35 mm
Neck
Maple quarter sawn Finish
NOAH Magic Mirror
Fretboard
Pau Ferro - 12" Radius Pickups
TV Jones Power'Tron Neck - 5,0K
TV Jones T-Style Bridge - 7,8K
Nut
43 mm – Graphtech TUSQ XL self lubricant Controls
NOAH Mastergrip Knobs and Di Marzio 3 way toggle switch
Scale & Frets
25.5" – 22 Frets, 6105 Frets Bridge
NOAH Stainless Steel with Gotoh compensated brass saddles
Tuners
Hipshot Grip-Lock open gear locking staggered Weight 7lbs 10oz HSC & Noah Polishing Rag included, to keep your guitar always looking like new.