Duesenberg Starplayer CBR | DUESENBERG GUITARS

Tonal Character

A chambered Mahogany body, combined with a flat flamed Maple top and Mahogany neck delivers a warm and powerful tone enriched with the typical Duesenberg sparkle.

Dream Team Pickups

The Starplayer CBR is fitted with the extremely versatile pickup combination of a bright Grand Vintage humbucker in the bridge position and a warm and creamy Domino P90 by the neck.

Plek Processed

A pleked fretboard guarantees perfectly level frets. This is the basis for our fret polishing and setup work all done by hand that eventually makes our instruments play like nothing you have ever played before.

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What is the Starplayer CBR?

Retaining the aesthetics of the celebrated Starplayer design, the Starplayer CBR brings you a new and unique tonal response through a chambered Mahogany body, Mahogany neck and flat Maple top.

It comes with our newly designed Diamond Prestige Tremola unit featuring an elegant flat-arm design, as well as our new Flextone+ 5-Way wiring.
The Starplayer CBR comes in five exclusive colors, all featuring a transparent brown back and elegant flamed Maple top.

Catalina Green | Transparent Black Burst | Vintage Burst | Transparent Vintage Orange | Transparent Honey

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Super-Smooth Duesenberg Z-Tuners with Blood-Guard string post.

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Duesenberg Grand Vintage Humbucker and Domino P90 Pickups.

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Duesenberg Design Diamond Prestige Flat-Arm Tremola.

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Transparent brown Mahogany back with top binding.

Flat arm tremolo design on the Duesenberg Starplayer CBR

Diamond Prestige Tremola & Flextone+ Wiring

Aside from the three regular pickup positions, the Flextone+ wiring offers two more in-between combinations at the flick of a switch.

Referencing the early days of Duesenberg, the brand new Diamond Prestige Tremola features an elegant flat arm design.
Additionally, the new Flextone+ wiring sets you up with five totally unique and practical sounds from the two pickups.

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PLEKED FRETBOARD

The fretboard is to your music, what the handle of a brush is to a painting.

It says a lot about an instrument how much care was taken here. Every single Duesenberg instrument is expertly pleked for buzz-free playability all throughout the fretboard. It is then carefully finished by hand and precisely set up by one of our professional luthiers. The luthier responsible also leaves his or her signature inside the instrument.

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THE DREAM TEAM

Duesenberg Pickups are known for their distinct, clear and versatile tone that easily cuts through the mix from mellow Jazz to supercharged Rock.

Our creamy Domino P90 in the neck position and the classically voiced GrandVintage Humbucker at the bridge form an all-around dream team many have tried to replicate.
The acclaimed middle position of the heavy duty 3-way switch features a special wiring that filters certain low-end frequencies out of the humbucker signal. The result is an open, funky and extremely versatile addition to your pallet of tone.

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WHAT WE LEARNED ABOUT GERMAN SILVER

The quality of the components in a pickup is vital when it comes to delivering the best tone possible right from the start. You cannot get back what is lost here. That is why we use a special material called German Silverfor the baseplate and cover. It's the only material that does not have a negative effect on frequencies transmitted by the pickup.

We also use a very specific insulated wire that we get from an old German copper wire factory. The coil is wound slowly, simulating a hand winding to give the pickup all the natural imperfections that make it sound great. The result is an extremely wide and defined frequency output that doesn't limit you or what you want to do.

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Made to hold something that lasts

A good case is one that's more sturdy than what's inside.

Handsome, laid-back and simply a good place for your instrument. Meet the Duesenberg Custom Line Cases. True flightcase quality, classically shaped, beautifully handcrafted and made to endure the most realistic and unrealistic abuses. It's a case you can just throw in the back of a car, train or airplane and won't have to worry about.

This instrument comes including the Duesenberg Custom Line Case as standard.

Specifications

Neck
Type:	Set Neck, 1-piece Mahogany
Width:	42.5 mm / 1.67" (nut), 52 mm / 2.05" (12th fret)
Thickness:	21 mm / 0.8" (1st fret), 24 mm / 0.95" (12th fret)
Shape:	Medium D
Fingerboard:	Indian Rosewood, radius 305 mm / 12", no binding.
Inlays:	Vintage Pearloid dots
Frets:	22 Jumbo 2.8 x 1.0 mm
Scale length:	648 mm / 25.5"
Trussrod:	Steel dual-action
Headstock:	Rosewood veneer

Body
Type:	Chambered solidbody, Mahogany, f-hole
Top:	Flamed maple
Dimensions:	46 x 34 cm / 18.11" x 13.38"
Height (sides):	4.6 cm / 1.8"
Binding:	Cream, single layer
Pickguard:	Black Custom (or Silver Custom on Catalina Green and Vintage Orange)
Finish:	PUR lacquer. Back and sides Transparent Brown.

Hardware
Tuners:	Duesenberg Z-Tuners
Bridge:	Duesenberg Steel Saddle Bridge
Vibrato System:	Duesenberg Diamond Prestige Tremola (flat arm)
Strap pins:	Duesenberg Standard (Straplock compatible)
Hardware finish:	Nickel
Strings:	Duesenberg Custom 10/50 (010-013-017-028-042-050)

Electrics
Pickup (neck):	Duesenberg Domino P90
Pickup (bridge):	Duesenberg GrandVintage Humbucker
Wiring:	1 Volume, 1 Tone, 5-Way Pickup Selector ("Flextone +" wiring)

Accessories
Case:	Custom Line Case (included)
Tools:	All required allen keys (included)

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Instruments we created in collaboration with artists around the world. Designed for their individual needs, but made for everyone.

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Semi Hollow

Bent sides and glued on top and back. Added solid center block. The classic construction. Semi-Hollow instruments combine the distinct tone of a hollow construction with the feedback resistance of a solid body. Extremely versatile.

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Chambered

A solid body that features big sound chambers for enhanced tone and weight reduction. Particularly characteristic tone somewhere between a solid and semi-hollow construction.