Brent's personal guitar is a classic, customized player's instrument, which is exactly the kind of guitar that Valley Arts specializes in. The Valley Arts Brent Mason Signature is the ultimate player's guitar, designed by the ultimate player.
As a professional guitarist, Brent Mason has demonstrated his virtuosity on sessions with an A-list of country and pop stars including Alabama, George Strait, Willie Nelson, Shania Twain, Aaron Neville, Trisha Yearwood, Randy Travis and Neil Diamond. He is a multiple winner of both the Country Music Association's Musician of the Year and the Academy of Country Music's Guitarist of the Year awards. His full range of talents came shining through with his debut album in 1997, Hot Wired, and he has revealed some of the secrets of his trade in his popular instructional video, "Brent Mason's Nashville Chops & Western Swing Guitar."
Technical Info
Size: full
Body wood: swamp ash
Neck wood: maple
Fingerboard wood: maple
Fingerboard scale: 25.5 in.
Fingerboard frets: 22
Nut width: 1.687 in.
Fingerboard inlays: dots
Tailpiece: chrome hardtail
Tuners: satin chrome locking Sperzel
Controls: 3 knob: neck & bridge volume, middle volume, master tone/series-parallel for middle pickup
Switch: 3-way
Pickups: Gibson mini-humbucker (neck), Duncan Hot Stack (middle), Duncan vintage lead stack (bridge)
Heavily-customized guitar with all the tweaks requested by the virtuosic Nashville session player! Swamp ash body with bolt-on maple neck. Maple fretboard with dot inlays. Gibson mini-humbucker at neck, Duncan Hot Stack at middle, and Duncan Vintage Lead Stack at bridge. Push-pull pot for middle series/parallel. Sperzel locking tuners. Includes case.