Godin 5th Avenue - Night Club Indigo Blue  

Godin

Godin is a Canadian company who make professional and innovative guitars. Their guitars are relatively sustainable, as well. Almost all their wood comes from North America, which means they don’t participate in deforestation in South America. Their guitars are made by hand by the best luthiers in Canada, which means they can guarantee high-quality guitars.

Hollow Body

This guitar is a hollow body guitar. This means that the guitar is a combination of an acoustic and an electric guitar. A hollow body has both a hollow body as well as pickups and knobs. The vibration of the string resonates in the body and on the hollow wood, after which the resonance is caught by the pickups. This results in a beautiful and unique sound; hollow body guitars have a full and bright sound. This is different from a semi-acoustic guitar, as that’s simply an acoustic guitar with an acoustic pickup, meaning the sound is solely acoustic. Due to the pickups on hollow body guitars, many different types of sound are possible. Consequently, they are also ideal for solos and riffs. Furthermore, the sound holes on hollow body guitars are usually on the sides instead of in the middle, which means the resonance will sound different as well.

The 5th Avenue Night Club Indigo Blue

The 5^th Avenue Night Club Indigo Blue is a beautiful hollow body guitar by Godin. It’s a remarkable guitar as it has a beautiful dark blue colour with a classy Bigsby system and a noticeable pickguard. The beautiful appearance of the guitar is comparable to its sound. The guitar only has one pickup: a TV Jones Classic. This is a vintage humbucker that produces a bluesy sound. As such, the guitar is very suitable for guitarists that prefer a vintage sound. The body is made of Canadian wild cherry which provides great sustain and a warm sound. The guitar has a silver leaf maple neck and a Richlite fretboard. Richlite is a synthetic tonewood that provides the same playing experience but doesn’t require maintenance. Richlite is also more sustainable as most tonewoods that are used for fretboards are vulnerable woods.