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We’re stoked to welcome Fibenare Guitars to our family of high-end and boutique guitar builders on hand! Fibenare was founded by a family of skilled luthiers from Kecskemét, Hungary. In 1990, the Benedek brothers faced the difficulty of acquiring quality guitars that Hungary was experiencing at the time. As a result, they were encouraged by their father to take up building their own, and the rest is history. Every component designed and produced in-house, these guitars are seriously incredible and are right up there with anything coming out of American custom shops.

This time, we have this gorgeous new Roadmaster ’56 Thinline – an extravagantly adorned take on the vintage T-style thinline guitar made famous in the 1970s. It features a gorgeous Arctic Birch top with amazingly well-done bookmatching, a figured flame maple neck, and an Emerald Green finish reminiscent of ocean waves.

This beautiful instrument isn’t all looks, though – it plays and sounds fantastic as well. The neck profile is both familiar and a sheer joy to play on, and the fretwork is impeccable, as you’d expect from a handmade boutique builder of this caliber. The Fibenare vintage-style ashtray bridge is stable and intonated very nicely, and the brass saddles pair up with the brass nut, ash body, and semi-hollow construction to give the guitar a warm, resonant acoustic voice both unplugged as well as coming through nicely in the electric tone.

Lastly, this build features custom Fibenare single-coils that cop the vintage T-type tones with ease. This is a downright killer “T” by every sense of the word!