Dragon – custom instrument

A custom dragon design created for an American customer.

Features

1. Electric and acoustic
2. Hand carved peg box with horns and teeth
3. Glowing LED eyes and mouth (activated when plugged in)
4. Scale effect painting (air brushing to order)
5. Unique class A active pickup system
6. Excellent feedback rejection
7. Easy, low cost maintenance
8. Ultra robust, modern construction
9. Unique carbon fibre/wood technology
10. Unaffected by heat and humidity
11. Stable tuning in all conditions
12. Professional strings
13. Comes with two bridges (wood and carbon fibre)
14. Australian designed and manufactured
15. Limited lifetime warranty

Technical details

Overall length: 630 mm
String (scale) length: 330 mm
Overall depth (incl bridge): 90 mm
Upper bout: 168 mm
Lower bout: 205 mm
Typical weight: 640 g

Construction

Materials: Wood neck and carbon fibre/wood body. Ebony fingerboard
Finishes: Epoch Instruments use the latest hi-tech, durable two-pack finish.
Colours: base colour/scheme as per client requirements

Electronics

This system combines Epoch’s unique Piezo-based pickup with an EPAV preamp. Because the pickup has such a high output level we have taken a minimum electronics, class A approach, using fets instead of integrated circuits with no voltage gain. On board control is by a concentric pot with volume and tone conveniently located to the player’s left of the neck, allowing easy adjustment while playing.

Controls:

Volume (inner knob): The centre position is the nominal playing level, turning to full will give an increase of approx 6dB.

Tone (outer knob): From the centre position
– turning clockwise is a treble boost
– turning anti clockwise is a treble cut/bass boost

Power: 9V battery – located on the end of the instrument (to the right of the end pin) allowing ready access
Output jack: located on the side of the lower left bout.

Output/sensitivity: 50k ohms