B.C. Rich Draco V Electric Guitar

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Get ferocious tone and monstrous looks with this electric guitar. It features a Mahogany body with a unique Beveled top and a HOT Rockfield Fat Ass bridge pickup.

Overview

Even more extreme than the already eccentric BC Rich guitar designs, the Draco V offers one of the most deadly body styles around. From its extremely beveled top to the wicked looking BC Rich headstock, the Draco V bellows from its twin rail neck pickup and screams from the HOT Rockfield Fat Ass bridge pickup. Much like the Dragon it was named after, the Draco V looks and sounds ferocious.

Features
- Mahogany Body with Beveled Top

- Neck Through Construction

- 24 Fret Ebony Fingerboard

- Rockfield Fat Ass and Twin Rail Humbuckers

- Grover Tuners and Tune-O-Matic Bridge

Beveled Top
Most of B.C. Rich body styles employ a beveled edge around the shape. In many ways bevels on a top are similar to facets on a cut stone. They catch the light and reflect at different angles giving the instrument more of a three dimensional look. Some of the B.C. Rich top bevels are extreme and wide while others are subtle and narrow. Occasionally the shape of the instrument is accented by painting the bevels a contrasting color.

Neck-Through Construction
B.C. Rich is known as one of the pioneers in Neck Through construction. They utilize it on many of their guitars, because it provides the best possible sustain, resonance, comfort and access to higher frets. Neck-through has long been considered the premium construction method for high end guitars. This construction starts with premium North American maple or Mahogany and runs from the tip of the headstock to the end of the guitar. This means… read more that the headstock, fingerboard, pickups and bridge all are mounted to this single sound foundation. Sonically it is a difference you can hear. The neck-through construction also allows us to cut away more of the body and neck at the neck joint which provides comfort that no bolt-on or set-neck could offer. You will find the neck through feature on all of our top of the line B.C. Rich models.

Rockfield Fat Ass Bridge Pickup
Aggressive in its own right, the Rockfield Fat Ass bridge pickup was designed for a specific group players in mind. The players that have those crazy super acrobatic playing styles that we all stare at in amazement. The ones at the gig that make everything look so effortless and easy. This pickups custom designed bobbins house larger pole pieces that help transfer string vibration from pulls, bends and leads so the user gets less tonal drop off and better articulation and note definition. The Rockfield Fat Ass has a well balanced overall tone that is mean and bold with major sustain, huge bottom end and cutting mids and highs that jump out at you. Each note is full and rings true from this pickup while you take advantage of a look that is that just plain mean and in your face.

Twin Rail Neck Pickup
Great pickup for Bridge or neck but designed to compliment the Fat Ass bridge pickup in the neck position. This pickup has a full round tone that helps transfer string vibration from pulls, bends and leads so the user gets less tonal drop off and better articulation and note definition. This is made possible by the custom designed bobbins that house the larger pole pieces. Custom wound with a little less bite but still just as aggressive, this pickup has great balance and sustain with a huge low end response and mids and highs that scream and cut for an tone that is truly inspiring.

Specs

Specifications
Construction: Neck Through

Body: Mahogany

Top Style: Extremely Beveled

Fingerboard: Ebony

Frets: 24 Jumbo

Scale: 25-1/2 inches

Tuners: Grover

Bridge: Tune-O-Matic

Bridge Pickup: Rockfield Fat Ass

Neck Pickup: Twin Rail

Controls: 1 Volume (Push Pull To Change Pickups)

Output Jack: 1/4 inch; Located on the back of the upper wing

Documents and Manuals

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 866-722-7424

Reviews

(8 ratings)

Submitted October 22, 2022 by a customer from gmail.com

"Awesome player"

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I bought a black Draco when they first came out. I ordered sight unseen, it was a sort of novel styling that could have been wall art, though the matching coffin case is where it looked at home.But then I got it. The quality of the construction was nice. The neck profile was great and easy to play. It was even comfortable to play sitting down. The neck through design works great on this guitar. I don't use a trem much and when I do I prefer top of the line trems. But this string through bridge was great for me, it stayed in tune well and I didn't have a trem in the way.The neck pickup sounds great, I had purchased a bunch of SD Hot Rails which is a similar design but liked the sound of these better.I didn't hit it off with the stock Rockfield Fat Ass pickup for whatever reason. I replaced it with a Bare Knuckles Miracle Man I did not like any better. Thats all personal preference and one needs to try them out for themselves to decide. The control cavity is a very small round one and no room for a 9 volt in there. One would have to locate a battery for actives somewhere else if they decided they had to have an active in the bridge.The body style is unique. It wouldn't look right playing Country music or most styles. The Spinal Tap look is a love or hate type thing, or at least looks best playing styles like metal.In this the end I had bought it for the looks but after receiving it I kept on finding one thing after another I really liked about this guitar, none body related, though… read more I think a cool V style. For sure this is a player. Back then these sold for $799 which was mid-range pricing. I think it was better than that. I would like the same guitar with a bit less radical body style for a player. Whenever I look back at my guitar collection there were a few that were those I found great to play. I had a new USA Jackson Kelly and a couple of US G&L Strats among the players, the Draco is in there too.The B.C. Rich coffin case was quite large but a perfect compliment to the radical guitar. This was an excellent guitar. I had very little experience with BC Rich guitars before this, just a used SOB for my nephew. The Draco made BC Rich a guitar company I had serious interest in.

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