This was recently traded in by a great customer - it's one of the March 2021 Ball Family Reserve pieces that Music Man has created and its a stunner.
Limited to 89 pieces, this JP15 features a lightweight Okuome body with a rosewood top and separated by a micro-thin maple veneer. The rosewood neck with rosewood fretboard is fitted with 24 stainless steel frets, laser-etched headstock logo, and custom JP 15 Inlays. Chrome hardware is standard. Each guitar is hand-signed by John Petrucci and features a numbered certificate of authenticity.
The Ball family is the last of a dying breed, a family business making premium guitars and basses on the California central coast since 1984. Sterling Ball, alongside his sons Brian and Scott, combine the laser precision of robotics and old-world hand craftsmanship to develop innovative instrument designs that push the boundaries of performance and playability.
Other specifications of the Ernie Ball Music Man JP15 include:
- Size: 12-3/8" wide, 1-3/4" thick, 37" long (31.4 cm wide, 4.5 cm thick, 94.0 cm long)
- Scale Length: 25-1/2" (64.8 cm)
- Neck Attachment: 5 bolt, sculpted neck joint
- Strings: 10p-13p-17p-26-36-46 (RPS 10 Slinkys 2240)
- Body Wood: Okoume
- Body Color: Natural
- Top Wood: Rosewood / Maple Veneer
- Body Finish: Oil
- Neck Wood: Complete rosewood neck
- Neck Color: Natural
- Neck Finish: Gunstock oil and hand-rubbed special wax blend
- Fingerboard Wood: Rosewood
- Fingerboard Finish: Oil/wax
- Front Headstock Logo: Laser engraved
- Rear Headstock Logo: Laser engraved, Bear no Serial
- Headstock Finish: Natural
- Frets: 24 - Medium Jumbo profile
- Fret Size Height x Width: .051 x .108
- Fret Material: Stainless Steel
- Fret Markers: JP shield inlay
- Nut Width: 1-11/16" (43.0 mm) at nut
- Neck Width at Last Fret: 2-1/4" (57.2 mm)
- Neck Radius: 17" (43.2 cm)
- Tuning Machine Type: Schaller M6-IND locking
- Tuning Machine Buttons: Pearl
- Bridge Finish: Chrome
- Bridge Type: Music Man Custom piezo floating tremolo with square cover and solid steel saddles
- Pickup Color: Black
- Knob Color: Black
- Knob Style: JP knobs
- Hardware Finish: Chrome
- Controls: Custom Music Man active preamp; push/push volume for gain boost, 500kohm push/push passive tone for custom 2 pickup configurations - .022uF tone capacitor
- Switching: 3-way toggle pickup selector, with custom center position configuration; 3-way toggle piezo/magnetic selector
- Pickups: HH - DiMarzio Illuminators; Piezo bridge pickup
