Hanson “Firenze ST”

A look that is pure rock & roll but thoughtfully designed to take you from articulate clean tonality to room shaking crunch.

The “Firenze ST” guitar incorporates the best aspects of 25.5” scale bolt on classics, and adds our favorite appointments, pickups and of course style.

Starting with a vintage feeling 21-fret, Canadian-Maple neck, (Think late 60’s “C” neck) that feels exquisitely full, comfortable and above all plays and sounds great. The 4 and 2 headstock allows us to utilize silky-smooth, full-size enclosed gear tuners. A choice of Rosewood or Maple fingerboards rounds out your choice for tonal attack.

The "Firenze ST" utilizes a contoured offset body shape for comfort and cool looks. We chose Ash for this instrument for its consistency and tonal characteristics that match well with our pickups.

Speaking of pickups, we chose 3 vintage style Hanson “Blade” mini-humbuckers to combine quiet operation, with bright complex tones with plenty of “spank” but a bit fatter and hotter.  The Firenze ST’s mini-‘buckers drive any tube amp into singing distortion with ease, and convoke comments like: “focused” “fiery” and “ballsy.”

TonePros licensed adjust-o-matic fixed bridge with fat posts holds rock solid and allows for individual string intonation adjustments. A TonePros Licensed fixed tail piece ensures maximum sustain and stability.

The VerDict:

The Hanson “Firenze ST” delivers a unique punchy tone that that tonally sits between a PAF and a vintage single coil. This "missing link" quality truly makes the Firenze ST one versatile beast. Shimmering cleans, awesome crunch, high-gain distortion, all with hum-canceling operation, this guitar does it all with character and style!