Overview
Brand name:
Product:
- electric guitars
Series name:
Dates of manufacture:
1997
The American Showster Biker FM has an alder body shaped like a motorcycle gas tank with a 3-Tone Flame finish.Biker Specifcations were - Alder body - Maple neck - Rosewood fingerboard - 25 1/2 inch scale 12 inch radius - 22 medium jumbo frets - Schaller Tuning Gears - Schaller Bar Stop Schaller Tunamatic Bridge - American Showster custom wound pickups - Master Tone and Volume control. Pickup choices were three single coils or two coil tapped humbuckers.
Finish was black with custom motorcycle style 3-Tone Flame finish- Retail price (in 1999) was $1200.00 - or the Direct sales price was $699.00.
Specifications (20)
Body
| Body material | alder body |
| Body style | motorbike gas tank style body |
Hardware
| Bridge | Schaller tune-o-matic bridge |
| Hardware color | chrome hardware |
| Tailpiece | V-style tailpiece |
| Tuners | Schaller tuners |
Fretboard
| Fingerboard material | rosewood fingerboard |
| Fingerboard position markers | dot fingerboard position markers |
General
| Finish colors | black finish |
| Number of strings | 6 strings |
| Scale length | 25.5 inches scale-length |
Neck
| Neck joint | bolt on neck |
| Neck material | maple neck |
| Number of frets | 22 fret |
| Tuner layout | six-in-a-row tuners |
Controls
| Pickup selector controls | 5-way selector switch |
| Tone controls | 1 tone control |
| Volume controls | 1 volume control |
Electronics
| Pickups brand and model | Showster pickup(s) |
| Pickups configuration | 3 single coil pickups |