Description
When you get your hands on the Reverend Billy Corgan Signature, it will be the greatest day you’ve ever known. This idiosyncratic solidbody electric guitar blends vintage and cutting-edge elements into a high-performance rock machine. Its chambered korina body offers light weight along with enhanced resonance, while its string-through-body bridge lends a percussive attack and extra sustain to every note you play. A set of Railhammer Billy Corgan Signature pickups infuses this axe with P-90-tinged humbucker tones; cutting-edge electronics, which include a Bass Contour control and a treble bleed circuit, take your tone from zero to thirty-three in no time flat. The Billy Corgan Signature also includes ultra-reliable Reverend Pin-Lock tuning machines and a triple-tree string tree, plus head-turning aesthetics, thanks to a segmented aluminum pickguard and an eye-grabbing color scheme. Contemporary players with a soft spot for timeless guitar designs will find much to love about the Reverend Billy Corgan Signature.
Custom-shop-level construction and detail
The Billy Corgan Signature teems with richness and warmth, thanks to its chambered korina body. Korina, a medium-light tonewood with mahogany-like sonic characteristics, delivers all the resonance you can handle, along with a lively, responsive, and harmonic-laden sound that’s guaranteed to inspire. This solidbody electric boasts a maple neck and fingerboard, both heat treated at over 300F for an eye-grabbing look and added stability, along with a 6-bolt neck plate for added sustain and tuning constancy, plus a convenient dual-action truss rod and a tone-heightening Boneite nut. Many guitarists have found the Billy Corgan Signature’s 12-inch-radius, 22-fret fingerboard to be among the most playable around. Finally, a hand-initialed, serial-numbered headstock lends a high-end, custom-shop vibe to this top-shelf electric guitar.
Ultra-versatile electronics
The Reverend Billy Corgan Signature churns out enough high-octane tone to pulverize a jack-o’-lantern. This hot-rodded axe’s Billy Corgan Signature pickups vaunt a cutting-edge design derived from Railhammer’s acclaimed humbuckers. These ceramic-loaded, dual-coil, P-90-style pickups feature rails under the wound strings for tight, clear lows, along with poles under the plain strings for smooth, soaring highs with zero hum. These pickups are a complete reimagining of the classic P-90, combining the vintage model’s clarity and articulation with the thick, muscular sound of a humbucker. Billy Corgan Signature pickups also exhibit a cocked-wah-inflected midrange bump that sounds amazing with heavy distortion or fuzz. You’ll dig this solidbody electric guitar’s Bass Contour control a passive bass roll-off that not only tightens your low end, but also revoices your pickups. Everything from scorching high gain to bluesy leads and country-fied twang is easily within the reach of the Billy Corgan Signature. You also get a treble bleed circuit that preserves your high end when you roll back your volume control. Reverend’s proprietary custom jack plate and Pure Tone jack round out the Billy Corgan Signature’s robust features.
Top-of-the-line hardware
When you dive into the Billy Corgan Signature, you’ll find high performance in every component. This guitar’s Reverend Pin-Lock tuning machines lock your strings in place for out-of-this-world tuning stability and lightning-fast string changes. A patent-pending triple-tree string tree features an extended bar that holds down three strings at a time with a single tree. You’ll adore how this string tree safeguards against G-string buzz in the guitar’s nut slot. You also get a string-through-body bridge with stainless steel saddles for percussive attack, maximum sustain, and a solid tone that takes off like a rocket.
Reverend Guitars: expertly crafted and designed with the player in mind
From humble beginnings working out of a Detroit-area garage to worldwide praise and presence on the globe’s biggest stages, Reverend Guitars has solidified its place as a reliable source of exquisite guitars and basses. The brainchild of designer and luthier Joe Naylor, Reverend instruments are found accompanying many of today’s most influential players, including Billy Corgan, Reeves Gabrels, Meshell Ndegeocello, Matt West, and many others. Now based in Toledo, Ohio, Reverend’s firm commitment to quality and exceptional tone is found in every instrument, each donning custom-shop components to deliver the purest sound possible.
Features
- Signature solidbody electric guitar of The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan
- Chambered korina body teems with a mahogany-like richness and warmth
- Comfortable medium-oval-shaped neck and 12-inch-radius, 22-fret fingerboard
- Neck and fingerboard are heat-treated for head-turning looks and rock-solid stability
- Railhammer Billy Corgan Signature pickups serve up P-90-tinged humbucker tones
- Bass Contour control tightens your low end and revoices your pickups
- Treble bleed circuit preserves your high end when you roll back your volume control
- Proprietary custom jack plate and Pure Tone jack offer unmatched reliability
- Reverend Pin-Lock tuning machines supply out-of-this-world tuning stability and uber-fast string changes
- Triple-tree string tree safeguards against G-string buzz in the guitar’s nut slot
- 6-bolt neck plate yields added sustain and tuning constancy
- Convenient dual-action truss rod and tone-heightening Boneite nut
- String-through-body bridge lends a percussive attack and extra sustain to every note you play
- Hand-initialed, serial-numbered headstock lends a high-end, custom-shop vibe
Specifications
- Number of Strings6
- Left-/Right-handedRight-handed
Body
- Body TypeSolidbody
- Body ShapeBilly Corgan Signature
- Body MaterialKorina
- Body FinishSatin Polyurethane
- ColorPearl White
Neck
- Neck MaterialRoasted Maple
- Neck ShapeMedium Oval
- Neck Joint6-way Bolt-on
- Radius12″
- Fingerboard MaterialRoasted Maple
- Fingerboard InlayBlack Dots
- Number of Frets22, Nickel Alloy
- Scale Length25.5″
- Nut Width1.692″
- Nut MaterialBoneite
Hardware
- Bridge/TailpieceString-through Body Hartail
- TunersPin-Lock
Electronics
- Neck PickupRailhammer Billy Corgan Signature Humbucker
- Bridge PickupRailhammer Billy Corgan Signature Humbucker
- Controls1 x master volume, 1 x master tone, 1 x bass contour
- Switching3-way blade pickup switch
Miscellaneous
- StringsD’Addario, .010-.046
- Case/Gig BagSold Separately
- Manufacturer Part Number:BC1-S-plwh-RM-HCHC-AL-HT
