The Spruce top's smooth wood appearance enriches the response of your playing. The Maple back and sides provide a rich tone and bright attack with a solid sound. The 3pc Nyatoh/Maple Neck provides a rich midlow end and great resonance. Ebony fretboard produces tight lows and mid range with a strong attack in the high end and features a quick response and rich sustain. Medium sized frets enhances the accuracy to your notes. The Artstar fret edge treatment with spherical surface processing offers super smooth performance. The Gibraltar Performer bridge provides rich sustain and tuning stability. The lowpositioned saddles promise comfortable playability. The classic look VT200 tailpiece provides great tuning stability. PM special (S) pickup carefully designed specially to Pat's preference. This PM Special single coil pickup, like how it looks, embraces a wellbalanced classic jazz tone which is essential to Pat's music.