The Contender boasts a classic retro look with a modern feel featuring Retroblast pickups and a Bigsby B50.
The Reverend Contender is the guitar maker's flat-top, single-cut set neck guitar. It's classically retro, but the offset body and six-in-line headstock give the guitar a modern feel. A strategic chamber under the pickguard increases resonance and reduces weight. The Contender RB includes Reverend’s all-new Retroblast pickups. The mini-humbuckers have percussive, yet smooth tone backed with plenty of energy for classic power chord crunch or rockabilly blues rhythms. Add a Bigsby B50, and this guitar effortlessly combines vintage with cutting-edge—a hallmark of Reverend’s original designs.
Specifications
Body
- Body type: Solidbody, single cutaway
- Body wood: Korina
- Body finish: Gloss
- Neck shape: Medium oval
- Neck wood: Korina
- Joint: Set-in
- Scale length: 24.75"
- Truss rod: Dual-action
- Neck finish: Gloss
- Material: Pau ferro
- Radius: 12"
- Fret size: Medium jumbo
- Number of frets: 22
- Inlays: Block
- Nut material: Boneite
- Configuration: HH
- Neck: Reverend Retro Blast
- Bridge: Reverend Retro Blast
- Control layout: Volume, tone, bass contour
- Pickup switch: 3-way
- Special electronics: Treble bleed circuit
- Bridge type: Tremolo/vibrato
- Tuning machines: Pin-Lock
- Color: Chrome
- Number of strings: 6-string
- Orientation: Right Handed
- Country of origin: South Korea
Features
- Gloss-finished korina body
- Medium oval korina neck with a gloss finish, pau ferro fingerboard
- Reverend Retro Blast neck/bridge pickups, 3-way switch
- Pin-lock tuning machines, Bigsby B-50 with roller bridge