Description
The Hagstrom Viking in Black Gloss presents discerning musicians with a beautifully resonant semi-hollow instrument designed for limitless creative exploration. As soon as you begin playing, the acoustic chambering imparts a gorgeous, airy bloom to your notes, ensuring each chord rings out with astonishing clarity and sustain. The meticulously carved neck profile grants you lightning-fast maneuverability up and down the fretboard, feeling incredibly natural and inviting during extended studio sessions. Its dynamic humbuckers faithfully capture every subtle nuance of your picking hand, easily transitioning from velvety jazz textures to roaring, feedback-drenched overdrive with a simple volume swell.
The Hagstrom Viking Bass in Black Gloss provides bassists with an incredibly resonant, short-scale instrument that sings with distinct vintage warmth. From the moment you strap it on, the semi-hollow body construction introduces a wonderful acoustic airiness to your fundamental notes, delivering a woody, organic punch that fills the low end beautifully.
The shorter scale length dramatically reduces fretboard stretching, making complex, melodic bass lines feel completely effortless beneath your fingers. Equipped with vintage-voiced pickups, it translates the natural acoustic resonance into a thick, articulate thump, making it the perfect foundation for blues, jazz, and classic rock.
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 HSVIKBLK
BRANDHagstrom Guitars
TYPE Semi-Hollow Electric Guitars
SERIES Hagstrom Viking Series
FINISH Black Gloss
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