Sapele mahogany solid body with a bookmatched spalted flamed maple cap. Slightly faded look deep red stained face. 5-piece maple neck construction with a rosewood fretboard and headstock facing. White MOP fretboard inlays and coloured abalone ‘HI’ headstock logo. 17” scale length. The vintage influenced styling, satin finish and quality chromed hardware combine to give a classy vintage yet modern vibe.

This ‘Eaglet’ model has a trim 214mm wide body. The fretboard width at the nut is 35mm The 4 individual bridges have a wide, more acoustic uke-like, string spacing of 37mm, G to A (most electric ukes tend to have a narrow electric guitar-like string spacing).

Like most HiGuitarsUK instruments, this one has an open-grain satin finish to the body and headstock. This time with a satin gloss (half way between satin and gloss) face. The usual multi-layer oil finish has been applied and worked into the neck.

The combination of a mahogany body and maple neck plus 2 great DiMarzio pickups helps to create a great sounding instrument. In standard mode the Twang King (neck) and Chopper (bridge) pickups are set up to work as balanced single coils across the 3 switch positions. But pull the tone control upwards and the bridge pickup shifts into full humbucker mode.

The 17" (mm) scale length will work well with the top 4 strings from a set of D'Addario EXL110W electric guitar 10s with a wound 3rd, tuned G-C-E-A with a low G. The gauges used are also easily individually purchasable online via eBay, etc.

5-piece neck: Maple centre and outers with 2 thin rosewood stringers. Adjustment free low profile carbon fibre neck rod, for long term stability.

Fretboard: Rosewood with high grade white MOP shell block inlays. Slightly oversize 2.5mm side dots (for better visibility). Fretted with high grade hard American fretwire for longer fret life.

Electrics: DiMarzio single coil and mini humbucker, volume and tone controls, 3-way selector switch, full humbucker switch activated by lifting tone control.

Neck width at nut: 35mm

Neck depth at 1st fret: 19.7mm

Neck depth at 10th fret: 20mm

Top nut: Bone (not reconstituted)

Bridge: 4 individual adjustable saddles, for a wider string spacing and better note separation

Tuners: High quality Gotoh sealed tuners

Hardware: Quality chrome plated

Total length: 675mm

Body width: 214mm

Body thickness: 40mm

Weight: 2kg

Strings: D'Addario electric

*This ‘Eaglet’ has been a good fit in most the padded tenor size ukulele bags tried. For clear lacquer finished instruments it is best to use a bag with a fleece or soft lining