Description
The Hagstrom Viking in Tobacco Sunburst empowers modern players with an exceptionally vibrant semi-hollow platform that responds beautifully to every musical nuance. When you lean into the strings, the semi-hollow architecture instantly rewards you with a lush, three-dimensional warmth that adds profound depth to your core tone.
The unbelievably slender neck shape significantly reduces hand fatigue, allowing you to execute complex chords and rapid lead lines with absolute ease. Paired with exceptionally articulate humbucking pickups, this guitar delivers everything from pristine, shimmering cleans to a fiercely focused mid-range growl, giving you total command over your performance.
The Hagstrom Viking Electric Bass in Tobacco Sunburst offers a uniquely inspiring, distinctly tactile feel for bassists seeking expansive, vintage inspired tonality. Harnessing the acoustic warmth of its resonant body, the custom pickups deliver a beautifully rounded, deeply supportive foundation that remains remarkably articulate across all physical registers.
The slender, fast playing neck profile ensures that navigating complex walking basslines or intricate melodic runs feels effortlessly smooth and musically intuitive. Beautifully balanced against the player, this instrument responds eagerly to nuanced fingerstyle techniques, producing a wonderfully organic, harmonically rich tone for any modern ensemble.
Enter a true Scandinavian warrior! The Viking stands proudly next to its solid-body siblings, the Swede and Super Swede.
It is THE undisputed all-time classic of the Hagstrom range, and is one of the finest and most affordable semi-hollow guitars on the market today. With its meticulously crafted laminated maple body, solid centre-sustain-block, and hard-maple set neck, it churns out sounds as diverse as they come.
Hagstrom’s prominent, yet not-too-hot HJ50 humbucking pickups deliver a broad sonic palette ranging from Blues to Rock to Jazz-Fusion to 60’s Beat and beyond. You can even take it on a shred spin.
VIKING STANDARDS:
H-Expander
All Hagstrom electric guitars and basses include our patented H-Expander truss rod. Providing tension at both ends and running the entire length of the neck, the rigid yet light-weight alloy truss rod allows for a very low action and thin neck, two factors that were instrumental in earning Hagstrom its reputation as the world’s fastest playing guitar. The H-Expander truss rod not only provides ultimate neck stability, but it also contributes to Hagstrom’s unique tone. Longer sustain and a round attack are some of the sonic characteristics the H-Expander adds to the tonal essence of Hagstrom.
Set Neck
Hagstrom uses a variety of different neck joints throughout our range. Our set-neck recipe is the classic and time-tested Mortise and Tenon joint, a design that most efficiently transfers string energy from neck to body, and can often only be found on more expensive custom-built guitars. A team of experienced and dedicated craftsmen hand carves every neck joint, insuring perfect execution of this traditional technique preferred by luthiers for generations.
Resinator Wood
Resinator wood is a wood composite material that is both more uniform in density and more stable than any standard wood product. These characteristics eliminate dead spots or “wolf tones” sometimes associated with conventional wood fingerboards. Resinator wood has an articulate sound similar to high quality ebony, but without any of the problems associated with ebony. It provides a stable and clear tone, and also adds higher overtones and harmonics which uniquely detail each note. Like our H-Expander truss rod, Resinator wood is a major contributor to the distinctive “Hagstrom tone”.
Hagstrom Machine Heads
Hagstrom models use 18:1 or 15:1 gear ratio machine heads based on our own designs to insure accurate tuning. Viking and HB series basses feature machine heads with a 17:1 gear ratio.
SPECIFICATIONS:
SKU HSVIKTSB
BRAND Hagstrom Guitars
TYPE Semi-Hollow Electric Guitars
SERIES Hagstrom Viking Series
FINISH TOBACCO SUNBURST
BODY WOOD Ply Maple
BODY TOP Contoured
NECK WOOD Canadian Hard Maple
CONSTRUCTION Set Neck
TRUSS ROD H-Expander
FRETBOARD Resinator Wood, Radius of 15″
FRETS 22 Medium Jumbo
INLAYS6 mm Pearl Dot
SCALE LENGTH 24.75″ (628 mm)
NUT GraphTech Black Tusq XL, Nut Width is 43mm
MACHINE HEADS Diecast Hagstrom Design 18:1 Gear Ratio
BRIDGELong Travel Tune-O-Matic with Hagstrom Trapeze Tail Piece
PICKUPS 2 x Hagstrom HJ-50
PICKUP SELECTOR 3-Way Toggle Switch
CONTROLS 2 x Volume / 2 x Tone
UNIQUE FEATURES Strings:D’Addario EXP 110 (10-46)
COMES WITH Hagstrom Hardshell Case in Tan Tolex with Hagstrom Logo
Flat shipping fee to capital cities and metro areas. Does not include regional areas
Regional areas please email for quote: sales2@stagefrontmusic.com.au