Fret-King Range

We are offering the Canadian Guitar Pro a full range of Fret-King Electric Guitars and Basses.

Fret-King range offers a wonderful array of styles, tonewoods, hardware, pickup combinations, colours, and finishes.

Fret-King models.

Country Squire - The tonewood for both semi-tone and solid body versions is American Alder with Canadian hard rock Maple neck, and rosewood fingerboard, providing a solid platform for superior tone and performance. Our models cover a wide range of Wilkinson pickups, vibrato and fixed bridge options. Click here for more!

Corona - The tonewood is two piece centre jointed American Alder with Canadian hard rock Maple neck, featuring a sculpted heel design for easy access to the upper frets. Our models have Wilkinson pickups and vibrato `Five plus One' knife edge bridge has little touches like a delrin bushed, adjustable tension and height arm. Click here for more!

Eclat - The tonewood is solid, natural grain, maple cap with, selected two-piece centre-jointed mahogany body, and mahogany neck with long-tenon neck joint. The Eclat body features a rear contour and forearm scoop for an even more comfortable and fluid playing experience, the subtly extended cutaway allows enhanced upper fret access. Our models have Wilkinson double pickups and a fixed bridge. Click here for more!

Elise - The tonewood is carved from a solid mahogany blank, with acoustically tuned body chambers, a full length centre block, and double carved solid maple cap and mahogany neck, with deluxe rosewood fingerboard. The Elise employs the Fret-King long-tenon neck joint, which mates precisely to the body underneath the neck pickup. Our models have Wilkinson double coils, with a vari-coil control and a fixed bridge. Click here for more!

See details for all our Fret-King models below.

Country Squire

Country Squire comes in 5 Semi-tone and 13 solid body options, with a variety of pick up combinations.

Design details are important, and we like to do it all right; the beautiful Country Squire Semitone's first impression belies its versatility.

The Semitone is built from the timbers we've all come to accept as the tonewoods of choice for the style; the two-piece centre-jointed American alder body with alder top and the Canadian hard rock maple neck and rosewood fingerboard provide a solid platform for superior tone and performance. The gently offset body, with sculpted heel and slim horn, provides terrific balance and enhanced upper fret access.

The extended tenon neck/body join ensures stability, and couples outstandingly well to the chambered semi-acoustic body, adding an airy lightness to the feel and voice of this great guitar, and enhancing familiar tone with an acoustic quality which only makes the whole superbly versatile.

The 'chopped' Wilkinson WTB 'cold rolled' original vintage spec stamped steel bridge features two strings per saddle, solidly anchoring the saddles to the bridge baseplate, ensuring the maximum mechanical coupling so crucial to giving you all the power you need. Adjustable, pre-intonated barrel style natural brass saddles ensure authentic tone and spot-on intonation.

Pickup and control configurations unique to Fret-King allow for the intrinsic character of all Country Squire models to be complemented by a myriad of additional and eminently useable tones. It's got all the `classic' tones plus the Fret-King 3+3 neck double coil has hidden powers!

The dual concentric tone/Vari-coil control pot to rolls the double coils progressively down to single coil. Flick the selector switch down to the bridge position for the open coil topless WHHB, roll the tone forward and you're straight into searing bridge single coil. Another smooth move with the Vari-coil roll that neck-side coil in, and it's `hello Mr Kossoff'! Flick to the neck, back off the tone, and be instant Mr Mellow!

The Fret-King philosophy of innovating to `give more than is expected' is something that players tell us they love; the Semitone is a great example of the philosophy, and the Black Label Country Squire Semitone takes huge, sensible steps forward!

The Country Squire Semitone guitar is an original Fret-King® Black Label Series™ guitar created by Trev Wilkinson and the UK Fret-King design team.

Country Squire - Solid Body

A subtly and sensitively reworked timeless classic.

The Country Squire Classic is built from the timbers which we've all come to accept as the tonewoods of choice: two-piece centre-jointed American alder body, Canadian hard rock maple neck, and rosewood fingerboard, providing a solid platform for superior tone and performance.

Continuing the legacy with well-considered design features, the Country Squire has a gently offset body with sculpted heel and slim horn, providing terrific balance, enhanced upper fret access, and an extended tenon neck/body join for stability and outstanding sonic coupling.

Unique pickup and control configurations allow for the tonal character which is the heart and soul of this style of guitar, to be the bedrock of all Country Squire models, complemented by a myriad of additional and eminently useable tones.

Design details are important, and we like to do it all right; the beautiful Country Squire Classic's first impression belies its versatility.

It's got all the `classic' tones plus the staggered pole piece double coil has a secret!

The dual concentric tone/Vari-coil control pot rolls the Fret-King 3+3 neck double coil down to neck single coil. Now, flick the selector switch down to the flat pole piece bridge pickup, and the Vari-coil will take you from authentic vintage '52 `Nashville Snap' to a creamy, focused single coil sound with enhanced mids and increased power.

The Wilkinson WTB bridge features a `cold rolled' original vintage spec stamped steel baseplate, which surrounds and enhances the magnetic field of the alnico V loaded bridge pickup. Adjustable, pre-intonated barrel style natural brass saddles ensure authentic tone and spot-on tuning. Two strings per saddle solidly anchor the saddles to the bridge baseplate, ensuring the maximum mechanical coupling so crucial to giving you all the power you need.

Players like Fret-King because we give more than is expected, and the Black Label Country Squires are no exception. Improving upon classics is tricky, but with the Black Label Country Squire Classic, Trev just may have done it!

The Country Squire Classic guitar is an original Fret-King® Black Label Series™ guitar created by Trev Wilkinson and the UK Fret-King design team.

Corona Classic and Custom

The Corona is a tour de force, combining high-end building techniques, premium materials, player-friendly innovations and classic vintage tones with the usual Fret-King twist of delivering more than looks suggest.

Trev's decades of hands-on experience with designing guitars and hardware have always had a focus on perfecting the vibrato bridge.

The Wilkinson WV6SB `Five plus One' knife edge bridge has little touches like a delrin bushed, adjustable tension and height arm, which makes it so easy to use. The tempered steel base plate, steel tone block, and vintage spec bent steel saddles provide superior tone. The stagger drilled tone block and Wilkinson E-Z Lok staggered post height tuners need no string tree and guarantee the best return to zero you'll find.

The bridge mounted Fret-King P90 is stacked, and routed through a Vari-coil control, allowing the pickup to be wound back to absolutely authentic bridge single coil. With tradition infusing the rest of the pickup and control layout the Corona will give you all the tone you need to do justice to its effortlessly classic vibe and your music.

With a two-piece centre-jointed American alder body, Canadian hard rock maple neck and rosewood fingerboard, the Corona is tradition embodied.

Featuring a sculpted heel design for easy access to the upper frets, and with an extended tenon neck/body join for outstanding stability and sonic coupling, the Corona SP is the journeyman player's best friend.

The Corona SP guitar is an original Fret-King® Black Label Series™ guitar created by Trev Wilkinson and the UK Fret-King design team.

Eclat

The Eclat is one of the electric guitar's most enduring styles, and, for many players, a benchmark.

Our decades of knowledge in tonewood selection and attention to detail in construction methods, electronics and pickups are all crucial in the creation of the Black Label Eclat Standard.

The solid, natural grain, maple cap, selected two-piece centre-jointed mahogany body, and mahogany neck with long-tenon neck joint all coalesce to ensure the foundations of a guitar with amazing sustain. The Eclat body features a rear contour and forearm scoop for an even more comfortable and fluid playing experience. The subtly extended cutaway allows enhanced upper fret access while maintaining the Eclat's purity of line and traditional elegance. Tonally, the Eclat is as authentic as you could ever hope for.

Legendary Fret-King WVC double coils (built to the original recipe created by Seth Lover, and gifted to Trev in the `80s) give the Eclat a voice which speaks with all the depth and clarity you'd expect from a signature twin double coil single cut guitar designed by Trev Wilkinson.

The Fret-King Vari-coil control rolls those spectacular WVCs all the way down to single coil for a range of tones which go from searing, saturated bridge double coil sustain, overloaded with delicious harmonics, all the way to tingling transparent single coil bridge tones. The Eclat Standard is truly one of the most versatile and useable guitars on the planet.

The Eclat Standard guitar is an original Fret-King® Black Label Series™ guitar created by Trev Wilkinson and the UK Fret-King design team.

Elise

Elise - Inspired by a long heritage of semi-acoustic excellence, the Elise is an incredibly light, yet exceptionally resonant guitar with superior sonic performance and versatility.

Carved from a solid mahogany blank, the Elise body has acoustically tuned chambers, a full length centre block, and double carved solid maple cap to create a vibrant semi acoustic body.

The slick mahogany neck, with deluxe rosewood fingerboard, employs the Fret-King long-tenon neck joint, which mates precisely to the body underneath the neck pickup, forming a rigid fixed bond between neck and body, maximising the retention and transmission of the Elise's fundamental acoustic properties.

Fret-King WVC double coils give the Elise a voice with unassailable authenticity, definition and the power required for everything from mellow jazz to full bore blues. Fitted with the Fret-King Vari-coil, the WVCs can be progressively wound back to emulate a P90, or produce sparkling traditional single coil tone. The Elise sounds just like it looks, and then produces voicings never associated with this style of guitar, but which would be at home on Ocean Boulevard or a Nashville `Honkey Tonk'.

The Elise guitar is an original Fret-King® Black Label Series™ guitar created by Trev Wilkinson and the UK Fret-King design team.