Stylist-CS (Fingerstyle California Scale)
This guitar is assembled in our new 10,000sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Sicamous, BC, Canada.
In our years of making Graduated Scale Guitars, we had always fanned the nut and the Bridge. One Day, I was working on guitars and realized that I could get the same ergonomic fan without the excessive scale change by fanning the nut and using the bridge as the neutral point.
After building many prototypes, We developed the California Scale. A 25.5-25” scale length guitar that would normally be 26-25” fan. This has other benefits over just ergonomics and a neutral bridge point. The other benefit is that the bracing doesn’t have any twist to it, how the bridge reacts with the bracing and position on the top is much better, and the end result is ergonomic and string tension like a dread and a folk in the same guitar.
This guitar comes with a hard case.
The Patented Riversong Adjustable Neck-Thru System®
Our patented Adjustable Neck-Thru System® offers many benefits including:
- strength
- intonation
- less bracing
- easier playing (due to the ability to make precise adjustments)
- variable top loading
- an even balanced sustain, tone & volume up and down the neck (yes even on the body),
- no more need for an expensive neck reset
- slinky easy string tension
- reduced heel
- integrated strap pins as part of the structure of the guitar
Riversong's unique patented Adjustable Neck-Thru System® also has a truss rod that runs the full length of the neck. Most traditional guitars have a truss rod that ends at the 14th fret with an elongated screw head. Riversong necks have a full-length truss rod that adjusts the entire length. This is closer to how an electric guitar is constructed.
The patented Adjustable Neck-Thru System® has a small amount of flex (like a Strat) and this allows regular gauge strings to feel a lot less stiff further enforcing our electric-like feel.
Our Active Body System
Riversong’s innovation is the active body system. It works by moving the neck all the way through the body allowing two things happen:
- The structure shifts from neck joint to the end block
- The mass of the neck is now equal in and out of the guitar and it is free to vibrate like a tuning fork helping to ring up and down the neck and throughout the body. With the structure coming from the back of the guitar, the body and the neck has a little bit of flex (think more like a Strat vs a Les Paul). This flex gives the body the ability to freely vibrate and gives the strings a really slinky feel (low tension)
