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Falcon, model B.
Manufacturer: probably Yamaki
Years Offered: 1979 - 1982
Body: arched
top, double cutaway, bound edges
Body Wood(s): ash, rosewood or maple
top, also top layer on headstock with bound edges.
Neck Wood: 5 piece, maple-rosewood,
neck-through
Fingerboard: ebony, brass ring inlays,
bound edges
Frets: 22
Scale: 630 mm
Tuners: Washburn “deluxe”, sealed,
3xR, 3xL
Pickups: 2x “Washburn Power Sustain”
humbucker, two height adjustment screws on top side.
Electronics:
2xV, 2xT, 3-way pickup selector, push-pull
coil-split on both volume controls.
Bridge-Tailpiece: Washburn “Harmonic
Lock”, string through body
Hardware: chrome, brass saddles,
brass nut
Finish: tobacco brown with rosewood
top, blonde with rosewood top, blonde with blonde maple top, cherry sunburst with maple top, tobacco sunburst
with maple top.
Comment: control cavity (squary shape) and trussrod
cover made of wood, jack input on the side of the guitar, serial nr. is 5 or
6 digits only, stamped on back of headstock. This model is
the most common version of the Falcon.
The last (1982) run of B-model guitars
have the name Falcon printed in italic
on the (plastic) trussrod cover, the electronics cover is made of aluminium
and the guitars have a caved "comfort cutaway" backside like the B-model
Eagle.
