Fly with ICARUS!
We all know the story of the Greek mythical character ICARUS!
In Greek Mythology, the story is that Icarus, and his father, Master Craftsman Daedalus who was the architect of the Labyrinth of Crete, were imprisoned by Theseus who was the King of Athens and enemy of Minos.
Icarus and Daedalus escaped using wings that Daedalus had constructed from birds’ molted feathers, threads from blankets, the leather straps from their sandals, and beeswax. Before escaping, Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too low or the water would soak the feathers and not to fly too close to the sun or the heat would melt the wax. Icarus ignored Daedalus’s instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the beeswax in his wings to melt. Icarus fell from the sky, plunged into the sea, and drowned. The myth gave rise to the idiom, to “Fly too close to the Sun!”
It’s a great story and hopefully sound advice that has helped many people by warning them of caution in whatever their circumstances are.
In the case of the Rebel Custom Guitars “ICARUS” Guitar, and beautiful yet simply designed double cutaway, the wings will most definitely not fall off :)
In fact these are shaped from a solid block and you’d need an axe to seperate them!
This is a One-Piece Butternut (Light Walnut) Double-cutaway body, finished in a Satin clear, matched to a One-Piece Wenge Neck with 22 Nickle Frets, Abalone Dot Inlays and a new REBEL headstock design. Truss Rod access is at the bottom of the fretboard.
The pickups are a HOT “T-Master” set by Dominger Custom Pickups USA and are configured via a 5-Way switch wired up for creative options that provide (1) Neck, (2) Neck+Bridge, (3) Bridge, (4) Neck+Bridge in `Half Phase’, (5) Neck with 10% cut in low end frequencies. In addition, there are two Push/Push pots that provide Master Out of Phase and Master Series/Parallel configurations.
The nut is Titanium, metal String Retainer Bar, metal custom Fixed Bridge and the strap locks are Schaller. The control plate and the two knobs are custom etched with Greek designs in keeping with Icarus’ theme.
