Langcaster
Guitars and Bass guitars
Handcrafted guitar
bodies made from stunning 35.000 year old swamp Kauri roots are
fitted with innovated and space age technology pickups.
If you love custom
made electric guitars, want the best looking body, want recording
with no hum, want the best pickups in the world, or
real sustain at any volume, or bass guitars that work on light
Langcaster has it .
Please scroll down
the page for more photos and features !.
Langcaster
on TV-one and TV- 3 news !
One of the outstanding displays
on the Music Expo 2002 was Langcaster with the sensational LightWave
bass guitar, NO PICKUPS ! ONLY LIGHT BEAMS !
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Not only was this
the first display of New Zealand made guitars of stunning eye
catching wood, but we also showed one of the first bass guitars
that works on infrared light! the first to adopt the Lightwave
systems optical technology in Australasia.
See more on the new innovation LightWave
bass on the Bass page.
Dennis Doherty playing for TV-0ne
on the Lightwave 5 sting bass at the Music Expo.
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5-string LightWave optical system
bass guitar with Piezo and MIDI options.
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The Lightwave 5 string
bass guitar has an unbelievably clear, articulate and full sound
and is the world's cleanest MIDI pickup when a optional midi
board is installed.
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3 models of Langcaster guitars
are now for sale.
You can have a set
up with 2 or 3 Kinman or Lancaster pickups or with a pick guard
with 3 pickups, or ad on the Sustainiac Stealth Sustainer.
This is the most popular model
in chrome or gold and Langcaster pickups.
The above Langcaster
is sold ! but some are in stock and in production at this time.
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This is the latest model with
no pickup in the middle, fitted with a powerful humbucker pickup
and toggle switch for that extra kick ( for more, see the Guitars
2 page)
15" radius double action
2 way adjustable truss rods and is also reinforced with 2 graphite
rods. Ebony precision diamond finger board, 22 medium jumbo frets
0.48 tall & 0.95 wide.
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Stunning new neck design with
Jade inlay hand made string trees,
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Langcaster with the finest magnetic
"Sustainiac" Stealth Sustainer driver yet.
*The new revolutionary
Ervana nut in the neck for playing open string chords in tune
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The Lightwave Space age 5 string bass with 35000 year old Swamp Kauri .
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This stunning Lightwave
bass is also available in the same shape as a P-J 5 string Bass
with a Bartolini active P-J pickup set, (see the Bass page for
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NEW ! Langcaster P-J Bass guitars with Active Schaller Pickups.
Listen to the Langcaster Bass sound samples.
All Bass pickups
have the new Schaller Active Pickups with a higher output, low
noise ( a must in a Langcaster) and a greater sensitivity than
anything else on the market, put in a 35000 year old stunning
Kauri body with a double action truss rod neck and a Schaller
bridge makes the bass guitars as sort after as the Langcaster
six string guitars.
We make also
5 string bass guitars see the bass page.
A LIFE TIME WARRANTY ON THE BODY
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A Certificate is supplied
with the Kauri Langcaster guitars signed & numbered.
The Kauri wood we used is
carbon dated and identified to be over 35000 years old. Each
guitar is unique and a collectors item .
The carbon dating has been
done by The University of Waikato of New Zealand
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