The LeGrand is a high performance guitar for the serious player seeking a superb feel and vintage tone (or more). The "S" style body is vintage in look with nice contours and rounded edges and a vast variety of nice high gloss finishes too choose from. This style of guitar is known for the sparkle of single coils and the bluesy sound of shared single coils; the LeGrand exemplifies this with added pickup settings to the standard 5-way with our punch control. And you can further customize with our pickup selections.

Why does this guitar play and respond better than a standard bolt-on? The neck and how it mates to the body is the heart of the instrument. Our patented neck joint has increased compression to the body than a standard flat-to-flat surface coupling with wood screws which gives you better vibration transfer. The guitar is more "alive", the notes resonate throughout the body, and you gain a "bigness" to the single coil sound. Also, the "pocketing" of the neck means it will not shift and reduces the heel size so you have better upper fret access. A typical response we get is how good the neck feels. Not only from the neck shape but the organic wood feel allowed by the oiled finish of the neck and fingerboard. If you like the feel of "strat-style necks" then the shape of this neck is an excellent fit. It is very solid feeling and considered medium to medium thin. Not too thin like some of the flat back "shred" style necks but very comfortable to wrap your hand around.

The conical radius fingerboard is a very important and very nice feature. This changing radius gives you the best of both styles of radiuses. The small radius near the nut reduces hand tension and makes chord work more comfortable at the first frets. The flatter radius as your work your way up the fingerboard gives your cleaner bends and lower more consistent action. Our fingerboards are precision machined for this radius, for exacting fret placement and a high level of consistency from one neck to another. Careful fret work and the finest fret wire insure excellent intonation, action, and feel. Careful set up by luthiers/players insure your instrument is set up for its finest playability.

What bridge does the LeGrand use? An industry standard vintage style 6-screw tremolo. This bridge is known for being a good mate to the classic single coil sparkle. Generally this bridge and the many small variations of it are used sparingly as a tremolo and acts more like a fixed bridge. It is a good feeling bridge and, unless you need a true tremolo, there is no need to spend the extra money.

Do I need to move up in price from the LeGrand to the other versions like the LeGrand Legend? Will this get me a better guitar? No. The guitars are not "better". They offer you different bridges or woods.

The LeGrand Legend upgrades to a true stay-in-tune non-locking floating tremolo with exceptional feel or a pro fixed bridge.

The LeGrand Floyd is for the ultimate aggressive tremolo user which utilizes the real, original, Floyd. Not the lesser, cheaper metal Floyds.

The LeGrand Custom Legend is the ultimate in looks with exotic woods and choices of bridges, pickups, and more.

Starting at only $1,395 (hardshell case included).
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Does a guitar need to cost $2,000 - $3,000 to be great? No. The LeGrand is a "Boutique" level guitar. From a players standpoint it does what it should do. Respond and let you forget it's even there so you can concentrate on your music.

Part of the reason the LeGrand is so playable and responsive is from the technical design that we touched on above. Please use this link to find out more . Another part of the reason the guitars are made so well, and reasonable in price, is from the use of very good equipment. This allows us to attain precision, consistency and build quality. This also helps in the third part of the equation: the personal attention each guitar recieves from wood selection to inspection during each step, from fret work to final set-up. The use of good equipment allows us to spend the time where we need to - on each instrument to insure that you are getting a fine instrument - at a reasonable price.