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The Fret-King® Elise™ is one of our most elegant styles. Ergonomic, classic lines, familiar, yet forward looking.
The thin-line semi acoustic guitar is one of the great workhorses of the electric player’s arsenal. The Fret-King Elise Custom with vintage style vibrato, is the latest in a long line of Elise variants. With its offset, chambered mahogany body, carved, tuned maple cap, the Elise is light, strong, and resonant. Easy to wear and fast and fluid to play, it’s loaded with a pair of Trev’s most iconic pickup designs, the Fret-King Fifty-Five™, a first-generation pickup masterpiece. The Elise just oozes class and with the Varicoil™, and master tone with push/push phase reversal, has the inherent versatility to adapt itself to the warm, mellow horn like lead lines of the thirties, or supernatural sounds from the sixties, straight-ahead full-bore rock, tilt its hat at classic country tone and then, with the flick of a switch a spin of a couple of knobs and a killer vibrato, you’ll be unleashing the Werewolf within!
Elise Custom Vintage Vibrato Features
Body: The two-piece centre jointed, chambered semi-acoustic premium mahogany body features a tuned, violin carved maple cap, mahogany extended tenon neck joint, and premium mahogany neck, which all couple outstandingly well to create an airy lightness and ensure the strength and constructional integrity which provides the platform for the singing tone, blooming sustain and classic, authentic tonalities of the Elise Custom.
The unique reduced profile neck joint and subtly extended cutaway offers enhanced upper fret access, and the superb overall balance makes the Elise Custom a pleasure to wear.
Headstock: The raked signature Fret-King headstock ensures correct string tension, perfect balance, classic looks, and great visual appeal.
Nut: 43mm Graph Tech® self-lubricating nut, smooth and friction free.
Neck: Gloss finished, body colour constructed from premium mahogany with classic ‘soft C’ profile for instant comfort, speed, accuracy, and a luxurious 'played in' feel.
Fingerboard: Premium Indian Rosewood for durability and outstanding tonal transfer, with a 10” radius for a super comfortable, responsive, positive playing feel.
Scale Length: 24.7" / 628mm.
Frets: 22 Medium profile hi-durability nickel silver frets ensure accuracy, comfort, and an overall feel.
Pickups: A carefully curated set of Fret-King pickups enables the Elise Custom to deliver phenomenal versatility.
The custom designed Fret-King Fifty-Five™ double coil pickups, created by Trev Wilkinson using a truly authentic recipe, give the Elise Custom the inherent character and tonal versatility its semi-acoustic style suggests, whilst hinting at there being many other different personas waiting to burst forth.
Those other personas manifest themselves from within an almost impossibly broad tonal palette. The Elise Custom features a three-way selector switch, master volume, master tone control with latching push/push out of phase switch, and Fret-King’s unique Varicoil™ control which progressively winds the Fifty-Five pickups from full throated ‘powertone’, to sparkling single coil settings. The extraordinary range of tones this arrangement gives underscores the Fret-King ‘Versatility’ philosophy and makes the Elise Custom, a true journeyman player’s guitar.
Control Functions: • Three-way toggle selects neck, both, or bridge pickup. • Master Volume. • Master Tone with Push-Push Out of Phase Switch. • Varicoil rolls either or both pickups progressively from double coil to single coil.
Vintage style Vibrato: Enhancing that tonality is a direct mounted Wilkinson® GBR roller bridge, which anchors the bridge solidly to the body ensuring the all-important transfer of maximum string energy to the body and pickups. The stylish and authentic Fret-King vintage style vibrato tailpiece allows for subtle, shimmering pitch manipulation, with Wilkinson’s trademark return-to-pitch accuracy and stability.
Carry Bag: The Elise Custom comes with a Fret-King luxury gig bag.
The Elise™ is an original Fret-King® design created by the UK Fret-King® design team.
Shipping Pricing Guide
FREE DELVERY ON ALL ORDERS OVER £149.00
Standard Delivery for Small Parts & Accessories + Vinyl Records (2-3 Day) - £3.50
Standard Delivery for Small/Medium Items (2-3 Day) - £4.99
Standard Instrument Delivery (3-5) - Free on Orders Over £149
Express Instrument & Amp Delivery (Next Working Day on orders placed before 1PM) - £9.99
Setup & Ship Service - £25.00 Professional setup service worth over £50! Lead times typically +2 days for this service.
There will be a small surcharge for parts of Scottish Highlands/Isles & Ireland, we will be in touch after you place your order. Or you ask us for a quote prior to ordering.
Dispatch Times
We aim to dispatch all orders SAME DAY, if you place your order before 1PM. *Mon-Fri
International Shipping
Shipping to most of Europe will be £80 via UPS. Please note, we're not liable for any import duty or charges you may incur due to Brexit. Please contact us for a quote.
USA Shipping £150 via UPS. - (Please contact us for a quote).
Rest of World £POA (Please contact us for a quote).
Returns Our policy lasts 14 days. If 14 days have gone by since your purchase, unfortunately we can’t offer you a refund, we may offer you an exchange or gift voucher.
To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging.
Additional non-returnable items: - Gift cards - Downloadable software products
To complete your return, we require a receipt or proof of purchase. Please do not send your purchase back to the manufacturer. Get in touch with us within the 14 day return period and we will contact you to approve the return.
Online Distanct Selling Act Customers Only. In-store orders are only available for exchange or credit note.
There are certain situations where only partial refunds are granted - Guitars with any plastic cover pick guards or pickups. - Books with obvious signs of use
- CD, DVD, VHS tape, software, video game, cassette tape, or vinyl record that has been opened - Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error - Any item that is returned more than 14 days after delivery
Refunds Once your return is received and inspected, we will send you an email to notify you that we have received your returned item. We will also notify you of the approval or rejection of your refund. If you are approved, then your refund will be processed, and a credit will automatically be applied to your credit card or original method of payment, within a certain amount of days.
Late or missing refunds If you haven’t received a refund yet, first check your bank account again. Then contact your credit card company, it may take some time before your refund is officially posted. Next contact your bank. There is often some processing time before a refund is posted. If you’ve done all of this and you still have not received your refund yet, please contact us at sales@mayalls.co.uk.
Exchanges We only replace items if they are defective or damaged. If you need to exchange it for the same item, send us an email at sales@mayalls.co.uk and send your item to: Mayalls Music Ltd., 9 Bangor Road, Conwy, LL32 8NG, United Kingdom.
Gifts If the item was marked as a gift when purchased and shipped directly to you, you’ll receive a gift credit for the value of your return. Once the returned item is received, a gift certificate will be mailed to you.
If the item wasn’t marked as a gift when purchased, or the gift giver had the order shipped to themselves to give to you later, we will send a refund to the gift giver and he will find out about your return.
Shipping To return your product, you should ship your product to: Mayalls Music Ltd., 9 Bangor Road, Conwy, LL32 8NG, United Kingdom.
You are responsible for shipping your return item(s) back to us.
You will be responsible for paying for your own shipping costs for returning your item.
If you are shipping an item over £25, you should consider using a trackable shipping service and/or purchasing shipping insurance. We are not responsible for any loss or damage that may occur in transit back to us.
Founded in 2017 as a physical store, we pivoted to e-commerce during the pandemic. Serving customers throughout the UK, we maintain our traditional storefront while thriving in the online space. A guitar store created by and for guitar enthusiasts.
