Reverend Greg Koch Signature Gristle ST Electric Guitar, Roasted Maple Neck, 3-Tone Burst
Shaping up to make for a real knockout of an S-style, the Reverend Greg Koch Gristle ST is an exciting collaboration between two huge names in music. A real guitarist’s guitarist, Greg Koch’s name is prolific. From a modern blues master to an instrument designer, Greg Koch has made his mark in many different ways. Fans of Reverend are sure to recognize his name with previous collaboration models, but today, the Koch signature appears on this particular S-style with real impact.
The Greg Koch Gristle ST starts with a double-cutaway solid body made of Reverend’s classic tonewood pick of korina. This resonant and mid-weight piece is shaped in a slightly larger profile with a raised center section. Additionally, this korina features a chamber underneath the pickguard, further enhancing the punchy resonance for which korina is known. This S-style body is paired with a roasted maple neck shaped in a Reverend Medium Oval profile. Easily gripped and slid across the palm, the neck of the Greg Koch Gristle ST is smooth and quick for fast trips from lower to higher registers. The maple neck fills out to a fingerboard bearing twenty-two frets. Across the board, frets play articulately and comfortably.
For its formidable sound, this Reverend is loaded with three Fishman Greg Koch Signature Gristle-Tone Single Width pickups. These single-coils, summoning an impressive sound, play with no hum for cleanliness and clarity to ramp up for a great kick. The electronics setup on this S-style are equipped with a Volume, Blend, and Tone control with additional functionality. Its Tone knob is equipped with a Push/Pull Boost control to add onto the tonal character and punch of the guitar. Across all of its pickups, this guitar is massively expressive with plenty of character to play with. This tonal character is added onto by a number of fine hardware specifications, including a Wilkinson VS100N tremolo bridge for deep vibrato bends. Matched at the guitar’s opposite end with Reverend Pin-Lock tuners, the entirety of this guitar across the strings is stable and sturdy. The Pin-Lock tuners line the headstock – hand initialed by a Reverend technician who inspects and assures its quality.
As another dynamite collaboration between Reverend and Koch, this guitar is a tonal and visual knockout.
- Greg Koch signature Reverend S-style model
- Korina solidbody with under-pickguard chamber
- Roasted maple neck in Medium Oval profile
- Roasted maple fingerboard with twenty-two frets
- Three Fishman Greg Koch Signature Gristle-Tone Single Width pickups
- Push/Pull Boost Tone control knob
- Wilkinson VS100N tremolo bridge
- Reverend Pin-Lock tuners and Boneite nut
- Reverend technician hand-initialed headstock
