After launching a new signature model for Crowbar/Down guitarist Kirk Windstein just last week, Solar Guitars has further expanded its Artist Series with a new model for Darkthrone’s Nocturno Culto, the GC1.6NC.
Boasting a single cutaway LP-style shape, the guitar features a mahogany body with a flame maple veneer, a mahogany neck with a 24-fret ebony fingerboard – with a set-thru neck/body joint design – and a six-in-line pointy headstock with Solar 18:1 locking tuners.
Electronics come by way of a pair of “powerful and defined” high-output Seymour Duncan SH6 Distortion humbuckers, controlled via two volume pots, a coil-splittable tone knob and a three-way selector switch.
Other features include a TonePros locking TOM bridge, stainless steel frets, Luminlay glow-in-the-dark side dot fret markers, a graphite nut, 24.75” scale length and Tobacco Burst Gloss finish.
Designed together with Nocturno Culto, this premium feature-loaded single cutaway guitar belongs to the Solar Type G1 range, offering "outstanding elegance and performance,” Solar Guitars says.
The GC1.6NC is available now, priced at $1,349. For more info, head to Solar Guitars.
Solar’s new product announcements just keep coming; this year so far, the company has announced strikingly finished bass guitars, high-spec Canabilismo models and its first-ever Sustainiac-equipped six- and seven-string guitars, to name a few.
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Sam was Staff Writer at GuitarWorld.com from 2019 to 2023, and also created content for Total Guitar, Guitarist and Guitar Player. He has well over 15 years of guitar playing under his belt, as well as a degree in Music Technology (Mixing and Mastering). He's a metalhead through and through, but has a thorough appreciation for all genres of music. In his spare time, Sam creates point-of-view guitar lesson videos on YouTube under the name Sightline Guitar.