Jaguar's Opalescent Golden Sand, Lamborghini's Oro Metallizzato, and Porsche's Cognac Brown. The coveted earth tones of the great touring cars, built to catch the light at speed. This Sonar wears the tradition well: a brown-and-gold pearl that shifts as it moves.
A dark brown multi-ply tortoisehsell pickguard and Indian Rosewood headstock overlay lean into the rich warm aesthetics, while a pair of our V.O. humbuckers deliver sizzle, clarity, and mid-range along with excellent touch sensitivity and attack. A string through bridge with compensated saddles provides outstanding attack and sustain while keeping the look and feel that fits perfectly with this no-nonsense tone machine.
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*All Frank Brothers guitars are CUSMA compliant and exempt from cross-border tariffs and import duties. Each guitar ships with a CUSMA Certificate of Origin, ensuring that our Canadian-made instruments qualify for duty-free & tariff-free entry in to the United States & Mexico.
This Arcade One serves up rich, vintage humbucker tones while looking effortlessly sharp in a lightly relic’d Ice Blue Metallic finish. Add in a stop tailpiece with a vintage-correct ABR-1, and a lightweight all-Honduran mahogany body and neck, and you’ve got some truly classic tones on hand!
The unbound and rounded over top edge on the body gives this guitar a slightly more stripped-back look that also adds to the comfort. Topped off with an X-guard, split parallelogram inlays, and a bound fretboard & headstock for some extra attitude.
About the “V.O.” Humbuckers Designed in collaboration with Tim McNelly and wound at the McNelly workshop right here in Canada! These medium-output P.A.F voiced Humbuckers have a balance of sizzle, clarity, and mid-range along with excellent touch sensitivity and attack. Everything you could want from a ‘50s style humbucker. Learn more and hear them HERE.
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*All Frank Brothers guitars are CUSMA compliant and exempt from cross-border tariffs and import duties. Each guitar ships with a CUSMA Certificate of Origin, ensuring that our Canadian-made instruments qualify for duty-free & tariff-free entry in to the United States & Mexico.
This Sonar captures the feel and character of a great vintage instrument. Its tastefully relic’d gloss nitrocellulose lacquer displays tight, natural checking, while the deeply contoured, lightweight alder body feels sleek and balanced. The stripped-and-oiled quartersawn maple neck with soft V profile offers a smooth, broken-in feel, complemented by a beautifully dark Indian rosewood fretboard with heavily rolled edges—resulting in an effortlessly comfortable playing experience.
The MOD control plate features three slider switches: the first two split the each humbucker into single-coil mode, while the third “Blower” switch bypasses the neck pickup and the volume and tone controls. This switch can be used as a passive boost—when your volume is rolled down while you are in the neck or middle position, simply engage the Blower to immediately switch to the bridge pickup at full volume!
About the Sonar Model The Sonar model features a 25.5” scale length, narrower 1.65” nut and 9.5” fretboard radius for a classic “California” feel. Deep vintage-style body contours make the Sonar super comfortable and familiar feeling.
About the “V.O.” Humbuckers Designed in collaboration with Tim McNelly and wound at the McNelly workshop right here in Canada! These medium-output P.A.F voiced Humbuckers have a balance of sizzle, clarity, and mid-range along with excellent touch sensitivity and attack. Everything you could want from a ‘50s style humbucker.
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Jaguar's Opalescent Golden Sand, Lamborghini's Oro Metallizzato, and Porsche's Cognac Brown. The coveted earth tones of the great touring cars, built to catch the light at speed. This Sonar wears the tradition well: a brown-and-gold pearl that shifts as it moves.
A dark brown multi-ply tortoisehsell pickguard and Indian Rosewood headstock overlay lean into the rich warm aesthetics, while a pair of our V.O. humbuckers deliver sizzle, clarity, and mid-range along with excellent touch sensitivity and attack. A string through bridge with compensated saddles provides outstanding attack and sustain while keeping the look and feel that fits perfectly with this no-nonsense tone machine.
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*All Frank Brothers guitars are CUSMA compliant and exempt from cross-border tariffs and import duties. Each guitar ships with a CUSMA Certificate of Origin, ensuring that our Canadian-made instruments qualify for duty-free & tariff-free entry in to the United States & Mexico.
Ships in a custom Hardshell Case