The B.C. Rich Assassin PX3, featuring a licensed Floyd Rose Tremolo and Rockfield SWV pickups, is one screaming mean Assassin! A maple neck through a deeply arched, nato mahogany body with white binding, an ebony fretboard featuring 24 jumbo frets and a white, pearloid bird skull inlay are just some of the highlights of this guitar that absolutely oozes inspiration. Black hardware, revolver control knobs, ebony fretboard and a deep onyx finish top off the subdued all business appearance.
Neck Through Construction
B.C. Rich is known as one of the pioneers in Neck Through construction. They utilize it on many of their guitars, because it provides the best possible sustain, resonance, comfort and access to higher frets. Neck through has long been considered the premium construction method for high end electric guitars. This construction starts with a long piece (or pieces) of premium North American maple. That piece runs from the tip of the Assassin PX3T's headstock to the strap button on the opposite end of the guitar. This means that the headstock, fingerboard, pickups and bridge all are mounted to this single sound foundation. Sonically it is a difference you can hear. The neck through construction also allows deeper cutaways at the neck joint which provides comfort no bolt on or set neck could offer.
Rockfield Pickups Mafia
Bridge Pickups
The use of a ceramic magnet gives any pickup extra power due to the increased magnetic field they provide. This feature makes the mafia pickups produce a hotter and thicker tone that's really aggressive and full. The increased low end, thick mids and in your face highs is what rock and roll was built on! Balanced and full of sustain this pickup is a great representation of its namesake, a truly intimidating killer.
Neck Pickups
The neck version of the Mafia pickup is just as full sounding as the bridge position, without taking away from what has already been accomplished. Very minor modifications to the overall design and design concept of this pickup gives it punchy, bold tone with the same aggressive characteristics as the bridge version. A tad brighter with a little less output really takes this pickup into the smooth and warm realm of the tonal spectrum. All while maintaining that balanced bite and in your face aggressive tone that the Mafia is known for!
Deep Arched Top
A deep arched top is used on the B.C. Rich Assassin PX3T guitar. The deep arch is achieved by increasing the body center by approximately 5/8" and then gently sloping the arch toward the side of the instrument and leveling out just as the slope reaches the edge. A deep arch top when applied to a B.C. Rich shape gives an air of elegance and sophistication.
B.C. Rich Assassin PX3T Electric Guitar Specifications:
- Construction: neck through
- Body wood: nato (eastern mahogany)
- Body thickness: 45mm
- Top style: deep arched
- Body binding: white multi ply
Headstock style: small traditional 3 to a side
- Headstock color: onyx
- Headstock binding: multi ply white
- Tuners: Grover Rotomatics
Neck wood: maple
- Back of neck: onyx
- Neck binding: multi ply white
- Neck profile: thin
- Neck thickness at fret 1: 19mm
- Neck thickness at fret 12: 21mm
- Neck radius: 430mm
Fretboard: ebony
- Inlay: white pearloid bird skull
- Frets: 24 jumbo 2.7mm
- Factory strings: 9 42
- Nut: 43mm
- Scale: 25 1/2"
Bridge type / Tailpiece type: Floyd Rose original tremolo
- Pickups: 2 black chrome covered Rockfield mafia humbuckers
- Controls: 1 volume, 1 three way toggle and 1 tone. Tone knob is a push/pull coil tap that cancels the two outside coils of each humbucker.
- Hardware: black chrome
B.C. Rich Assassin PX3T Electric Guitar Features:
- 2 end of body strap buttons for a custom strap fit and instrument positioning
- Finish: painted glossy
You'll never want to holster this beauty order today.
