As a musician and a guitar designer, Howard Roberts brought the jazz guitar to a new level. The Howard Roberts Fusion model debuted in 1980 with such refinements as a more open cutaway, unique control configuration, and the 'fingers' tailpiece with individual string-angle adjustments.
Technical Info
Body: plain laminated Maple top, back, and rims
Body Binding: Multi-ply binding on top, single-ply on back
Neck Species: 1-piece Maple
Profile: Rounded
Fingerboard Species: Ebony
Scale Length: 24-3/4 in.
Number of Frets: 22
Nut Width: 1-11/16 in.
Inlays: Pearloid dot
Fingerboard Binding: Single-ply
Hardware Plating Finish: Gold
Tailpiece: Fine-tuning
Bridge: Nashville Tune-O-Matic
Tuners: Schaller Keystone
Pickups: 490R and 490T humbuckers
Controls: 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way switch
Strings: Brite Wire .010
Case: Black levant