Imperial Royal Hawaiian Limited Edition Weissenborn Style Lap Steel Guitar
This is the Imperial Valley Guitars Royal Hawaiian Limited Edition, the flagship of Imperial Guitar’s fleet.
The Royal Hawaiian Limited Edition is built on Imperial’s original innovation, the extra deep body, and features all of their best options. The LTD was introduced two years ago as a special deluxe limited edition of their Extra Deep Standard but it has become so popular that it has replaced the Standard model entirely.
One of its great features is the premium Fishman Sonicore under saddle pickup with Fishman’s excellent Presys+ preamp system. This system features 4 bands of EQ as well as a notch filter for feedback busting and a phase switch, which is another tonal variable that is useful for adding extra fullness at low volumes. The + part of Presys+ is the built-in tuner, always handy in any case, but especially if you’re going to be changing tunings in the middle of a set.
The 2015 Royal Hawaiian Limited Edition features all of Imperial’s newest deluxe features:
• Top, back and sides are all Sapele Mahogany
• Top is solid Sapele, back and sides are laminated Sapele
• Original Weissenborn style rope binding on top, back and neck
• Bound headstock with rosewood overlay
• Rosewood fingerboard with inlaid pearl diamond position markers
• Rosewood Mustache bridge
• Superb high ratio gold “violin” tuners with ebony buttons
• Fishman Presys+ pickup/preamp system
• Custom fitted extra deep hard shell case
Now about the available options.
There aren’t any. The LTD comes with everything they’ve got.
Product Features
- Extra Deep body for more volume and tone
- Cool vintage style “rope” binding
- Fishman Presys + pickup and preamp system with built-in tuner
- Gold and Ebony sealed tuners
- Custom fit extra deep hardshell case included
The mystery guitar…but amazing quality for the price I’ve been wanting a Weissenborn-style guitar for awhile. Both of my resonator guitars are in G tuning, and I wanted a slide guitar pitched to the DADF#AD tuning. I think this is a great deal considering it has a solid top and the Fishman pickup system included. The hard shell case is adequate, and the guitar arrived in one piece, albeit after two weeks wandering around the country USPS standard.Has a full sound acoustically, and it kicks when plugged in. I got it cranked up pretty good…
Five Stars