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			The neck is made out of bird's-eye maple. It has a 25-1/2 inch (650 mm) scale length. The neck has a truss-rod, which, with its small 3 mm diameter, hardly affects the resonant-qualities of the wood. The frets are narrow and tall.
			The use of LSR tuners, results in a very compact headstock. It therefore comes very close to the overtone-rich tonal ideal of a headless neck. In function and tuning-stability, these are the best tuners that are available at the moment.
			The neck and body are connected to an aluminum base by a screw-connection, in order to link the vibration between the two components. Deadspots are thereforen avoided. Additionally, the guitar responds easier because of it and the tone is more differentiated.
			The pickups are setup in a preset-mode with a 5-way selector. The bridge pickup can be selected at any time through a bypass-button. In this way there are six pickup-combinations available.

			The fade-in controls allow a very exact blending of volume and tone. The volume-pot is equipped with an RC-wiring scheme, which prevents high-end dropout when the volume is turned-down.
			A Wilkinson vibrato comes installed. In combination with a Schaller spring-claw, the LSR tuners, and the LSR Roller-nut, the tremolo operates completely in tune.
			The body is composed of a wooden core, made out of pear-wood, which is encased in epoxy-foam, and then carbon-fiber, glass-fiber and cotton-fiber. The wooden core absorbs the force of the strings and thereby generates the fundamental resonance.
			The pickups are special singlecoils, which are completely hum-free. The pickups are tuned to their overtones by the configuration of slits in the metal plate. The bridge-pickup is voiced stronger than the other two, thereby generating singing lead-sounds in the bypass-mode. The pickups' position between the tremolo and the end of the neck is adjustable, as well as in their height to the strings. Naturally, all the pickups are hand-wound.

				The Coco comes with a hand-sown gig-bag made of nubuk leather. It is heavily-padded and has a large outside pocket.

				Leo Fender's Telecaster was in 1948 without a doubt the most revolutionary guitar that could be imagined when taking into account industrial production potential and the technology that was available at the time: a board with a neck and strings on it. In the meantime, industry provides us with materials which are technically highly interesting, but who's possible applications have, up until now, only been minimally put to use. The use of carbon-fiber and modern composite resins in the acoustic field was the starting point for the coco guitar. It turns out that materials, like epoxy-foam, possess extraordinary acoustic properties. The particular sound of this foam-material is very percussive and bony, similar to a hard spruce. By adding special fillers and by reaching a certain density, one gets a tone that surpasses that of most types of wood. In the end, results an instrument who's body only has a wooden core. This core is encased with epoxy-foam. The outermost layer is composed of various fiber-materials like carbon-fiber, glass-fiber, and cotton-fiber with epoxy. The wooden core absorbs the force of the strings and thereby generates the fundamental resonance. The lower mass of the epoxy-foam allows a very good emission of the sound and has a distinctly percussive attack. Overtones respond quickly. The production-process allows, in contrast to a wooden body, a completely three-dimensional form, so that the body of the coco is so contoured that i nestles itself against the body of the player.

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