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At A Glance

Material
Mahogany, Wing Construction
Body Binding
Multiply
Style
Single Cutaway - Asymettrical Design
Neck Profile
Thru Body, 3 Piece Hard Canadian Maple - Slim "D" Profile, Reinforced Headstock With Volute
Truss Rod
H-Expander™
Body Binding
Multi-Ply Binding
Fingerboard
Ebony / 25.5" (648mm) Scale Length
Inlays
Pearloid Block With Glow-In-The-Dark Side Dot Inlays
Frets
22 Stainless Steel Medium Jumbo / V15" Radius
Nut Width/Material
Graph Tech Black Tusq XL (43 mm)
Neck Position
Lundgren Design AlNiCo-2 No. 2 Humbucker
Bridge Position
Lundgren Design AlNiCo-5 No. 5 Humbucker
Pickup Selector
3-Way Toggle Switch
Controls
2 x Volume Control With R/C Circuit, 2 x Tone Control With Push-Pull Coil Split
Schaller
STM Tune-O-Matic Bridge, Stop Tail Piece, Strap Lock System
Tuning Machines
GraphTech Ratio Tuners
Strings
D'Addario (10-46) Strings
Hardware
Ruthenium
Optional Case
C-47
Optional Bag
E-19
Finish
White Gloss
Description

Hagstrom built the Fantomen Custom as an elevated entry in the Fantomen line, which the company introduced in 2016 in collaboration with the Swedish band Ghost. The model carried a single-cutaway asymmetrical body constructed from mahogany using a wing construction method, finished in White Gloss with multi-ply binding. A through-body, three-piece Hard Canadian Maple neck with a slim "D" profile and reinforced headstock with volute ran the full length of the instrument, anchored by Hagstrom's proprietary H-Expander™ truss rod system.

The ebony fingerboard sits at a 25.5" (648 mm) scale length and carries 22 stainless steel medium-jumbo frets on a 15" radius, with pearloid block inlays and glow-in-the-dark side dot inlays. A Graph Tech Black Tusq XL nut at 43 mm width feeds into GraphTech Ratio tuners. Pickups are a Lundgren Design AlNiCo-2 No. 2 humbucker at the neck and a Lundgren Design AlNiCo-5 No. 5 humbucker at the bridge, selected by a 3-way toggle switch. The control layout provides two volume controls with R/C circuit and two tone controls with push-pull coil-split functionality. The hardware suite — finished in ruthenium — comprises a Schaller STM Tune-O-Matic bridge, stop tailpiece, and Schaller strap lock system. The guitar ships strung with D'Addario 10-46 strings.

Owners consulting on setup, fret work, or hardware sourcing — including Schaller STM bridge saddles, Graph Tech Ratio tuner replacements, or Graph Tech Black Tusq XL nut blanks — should bring the instrument to a qualified guitar technician familiar with through-neck construction.

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