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At A Glance

Body Wood
Basswood
Type
Electric Guitars
Style
Double Cut Solid Body
Controls
1V/1T w/Coil-Split
Pickups
Neck=Duncan Designed HB-101 / Bridge=Duncan Designed Distortion HB-103
Pickup Configuration
H/H
Pickup Selector
3-way switch
Color
Carbon Black Matte
Strings
D'Addario
Neck Wood
Hard Rock Maple
Fretboard
Ovangkol
Number Of Frets
24
Inlays
Dots with Parallaxe Inlay at the 12th Fret
Scale
25-1/2"
Hardware
Black
Bridge
Adjustable Hard Tail
Tuners
Diecast
Body Style
Double Cutaway Asymmetrical
Bridge Design
String-Through Body
Description

Washburn built the PXM160C as part of its Parallaxe Series, positioning it as a high-output, fast-playing solid-body electric aimed at demanding shred players. The model featured a double-cutaway, asymmetrical body in Carbon Black Matte with full black hardware throughout.

The guitar was constructed with a basswood body and hard rock maple neck, topped with an Ovangkol fretboard spanning 24 frets over a 25.5-inch scale — a full two octaves. Pickups consisted of a Duncan Designed HB-101 at the neck and a Duncan Designed Distortion HB-103 at the bridge, wired in an H/H configuration through a 3-way selector switch and a single volume and push/pull coil-split tone control. Hardware was finished in black throughout, with a six-saddle adjustable hard-tail bridge and a string-through-body design. Diecast tuners held D'Addario strings. The 12th fret carried a Parallaxe Series inlay alongside standard dot markers.

Owners seeking setup guidance, saddle adjustment, or help sourcing compatible replacement parts — including bridge saddles sized for a standard six-saddle hard-tail, or pickups in a standard humbucker footprint — should consult a qualified guitar technician.

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