Reverend Greg Koch Signature Gristle ST Electric Guitar, Roasted Maple Neck, Blucifer
Following a true meeting of the minds to produce a real stunner of an S-style, the Reverend Greg Koch Gristle ST is an exciting collaboration between two big names in music. A real guitarist’s guitarist, Greg Koch’s name is prolific. From one of today’s modern blues masters to an instrument designer, Greg Koch has made his mark in many different fashions. Fans of Reverend are sure to recognize his name on 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 tied-and-true tonewood pick of korina. This mid-weight and resonant piece is shaped in a slightly larger profile with a raised center section. As a bonus, this korina comes designed with a chamber underneath the pickguard, further enhancing the punchy resonance for which korina is known. This S-style body is paired with a refined roasted maple neck shaped in a Medium Oval profile. Easily played and slipped on the palm, the neck of the Greg Koch Gristle ST is slick and quick for fast trips from higher to lower registers. The maple neck fills out to a fingerboard bearing twenty-two frets. Across the board, frets play comfortably and articulately.
To produce its dynamic and impressive voice, this Reverend is loaded with three Fishman Greg Koch Signature Gristle-Tone Single Width pickups. These single-coils, summoning a formidable sound, play with no hum for clarity and cleanliness with an ability to ramp up for a great kick. In addition, the electronics setup on this S-style are equipped with a Volume, Blend, and Tone control with added functionality. Its Tone knob is outfitted 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 expressive vibrato bends. Matched at the guitar’s opposite end with Reverend Pin-Lock tuners, the entire experience 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
