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REVIEWS
Take your pick:
Relish’s magnet-based
pickup mounts make
changing tones simple
KEY FEATURES
PRICE £1,499 (inc gigbag and two pickup sets)
DESCRIPTION 6-string single-cutaway solidbody
electric guitar with interchangeable pickups,
made in Indonesia
BUILD Basswood body, bolt-on maple neck,
Iron out: the ingenious 10” radius laurel fingerboard with 24
swapping system medium-jumbo frets
means there’s no HARDWARE Sealed tuners, fixed bridge with
soldering required individual saddles and through-body stringing
ELECTRICS 2x Relish Bucker XX, Relish P-90
and Relish Single-Coil pickups with magnetic
This unusual space-age assembly method the Mary One’s blendable piezo sounds, mounts; master volume and tone controls,
has nothing to do with an astronaut’s lunch sporting just a simple hardtail bridge, three- three-way pickup-selector switch
– it simply means that the wood laminate way switch, and master volume and tone SCALE LENGTH 25.5”/648mm
top and back are held apart from the central controls. Pickup-swapping aside, this NECK WIDTH 41.9mm at nut, 51.2mm at 12th fret
aluminium frame by a layer of a rubber, is a traditional solidbody electric guitar, NECK DEPTH 20.6mm at first fret, 24.1mm at
12th fret
which Relish says increases resonance. albeit a very sleek and striking one. STRING SPACING 34mm at nut, 53mm at bridge
In order to shave two grand from the The build quality does not appear to WEIGHT 3.0kg/6.6lb
Mary One’s price tag, the Trinity has none have taken a massive hit with the move FINISH Metallic Blue (as reviewed), Red or Black
of that futuristic stuff. The body is solid to Indonesia. Our review instrument’s LEFT-HANDERS TBC
basswood, the fretboard is laurel and 24 medium-jumbo frets are neatly fitted, CONTACT relish.swiss
the headstock has a scarf joint running the neck join is impressively snug and the
between the first and third frets. It also lacks hardware feels satisfyingly slick and robust.
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