S5Hardtail
Guitar

Korina body with a choice of colours and sunbursts.
Figured maple scratchplate with a choice of pattern and colours.
22 fret 25.5 in maple neck.
Compound radius fret-board of a choice of woods.
Nitrocellulose lacquer finish for finest tone.
Wrap-around bridge for strong sustain and responsive feel.
Fender LSR roller nut for easy tuning and string weight tolerance.
Seymour Duncan JB, and vintage Strat, and Jazz humbucker pickups.

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S5H Controls
Pull the tone knob, and the 5 way pickup selector behaves exactly like a Stratocaster using three single-coil pickups.
Push the tone knob, and the 5 way pickup selector, with a Rees circuit, provides 5 humbucker sounds in order from neck to middle to bridge.

Pull for
"Stratocaster like Guitar"

Pickup Selector position when tone knob is pulled:

1: Neck single coil
2: Neck and Mid single coils
3: Middle single coil
4: Mid and Bridge single coils
5: Bridge single coil

Push for
"Three Humbucker Guitar"

Pickup Selector position when tone knob is pushed:

1: Neck humbucker PU.
2: Neck humbucker PU and a bridge single coil.
3: Middle pure humbucker made of a neck coil and a bridge coil.
4: Bridge humbucker PU and a neck single coil.
5: Bridge humbucker PU.

 

Hear Ben Smith playing a Rees S5H:

S5 PU Selector Voice Bridge PU Bridge + Mid Middle PU(s) Neck + Mid Neck PU
Clean Humbuckers p p p p
Clean Single Coils p p p
Crunchy Humbuckers p p p p p
Crunchy Single Coils p p p

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