Single-cut meets bolt-on with Asken's Intercooler Drop Top Series

Asken Guitars Intercooler
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Los Angeles-based builder and repair shop Asken Guitars has introduced the Intercooler H2T Drop Top Series, a new high-end, built-to-order single-cut electric guitar model.

The 25 1/2-inch scale guitar boasts a chambered Honduran mahogany body with a quilted birds-eye maple top, quarter-sawn African mahogany neck with an asymmetrical soft V profile and a 22-fret rosewood fingerboard with a compound radius that runs from 7 1/4 to 12 inches.

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.