Goldfinger

B&G Private Build guitars are hand-built. Using traditional techniques from the ‘Golden Era' of electric lutherie, that delivers a vintage feel, look, and sound, straight out of the case.

The solid brass Goldfinger tailpiece is built to resonate. Delivering a world of overtones and harmonics, like a natural reverb. Each tailpiece is cast by hand. A piece of jewelry conceived to look just as good as it sounds.

The top and back are carved from solid blocks of highly figured maple. Unlike most hollow guitars that feature the lamination technique, The Goldfinger’s top and back are carefully sculpted and shaped the same way as a traditional violin, allowing for much more resonance, transparency and balance.

The vintage recipe for creating the best looking, thinnest and most resonant finish, remains the best. Nothing compares to a perfectly sprayed and buffed traditional nitrocellulose lacquer. It is the only lacquer that ages together with the wood, becoming thinner with time, merging into the wood molecules, and allowing them to vibrate freely.

Another aspect that contributes to the stunning looks of the Goldfinger, is the figured maple binding. The back and top rim with the natural shade of the solid maple creates a delicate binding, which then seamlessly flows up the neck and headstock. Encasing the entire shape of the guitar in a beautiful maple silhouette.

The body, carved out of African mahogany, delivers unique acoustic features. It achieves a delicate balance between body resonance and resistance to feedback, which results in organic quality in sound, and a tactile and responsive playing feel. As a result, this guitar is extremely light, yet stable, strong and built to last.

The Goldfinger is all about playability. While keeping the classic 24 ¾" scale length, the neck joins the body at the 16th fret. The slick access point along with a 22 fret fingerboard, allows easy and comfortable access to the upper frets for the most advanced rock, jazz, fusion and blues playing styles.

Featuring the "spider-webbing" pattern in shades of gray and olive green with black. It is sonically similar to the Brazilian rosewood, but unlike any other visually. The Goldinger Ziricote fretboard has unbelievably low dampening qualities with a clean, reverberating resonance. To complete its stunning look, we embedded a fine sheet of solid Ziricote into the African Mahogany headstock.