Body: Maple
Top: Quilted Maple
Sides: Maple/Poplar Laminate
Neck: Mahogany
Fretboard: Cherry/Ebony
Dual-action Truss
Twin Carbon Rods
Neck Pickup: Szabo Single
Middle Pickup: Szabo Single
Bridge Pickup: Szabo Single
1 Volume
1 Tone
Five-way blade pickup selector
Bridge: Wilkinson/Gotoh V-100N Trem
Tuners: Gotoh Magnum
Nut:
High Gloss Nitro over hand-rubbed multi-color burst
The cX1 is a reimagining of the very first electric Kent built back in 1980 in high school shop class. It sports the same vibe with refined curves and aesthetics, but still embracing the bonkers metal vibe of that era. If you’re curious, the whole journey is documented here:
The original. Maple neck like a 2×4, made out of pine with hand-wound single-coil pickups and a ‘modular’ control cavity. It still works!