Russo Music "The Lucy" Limited Edition Custom Single-Cutaway Electric Guitar, Maple

About two hundred years ago, what's now known as the Spring Garden Historic District came together as a couple neighborhoods around Philadelphia's Fairmount Avenue, Vine Street, and Spring Garden Street. In 2019, we moved in to 1004 Spring Garden Street to formally found Russo Music Philadelphia. Today, we have The Lucy.

The Russo Music Lucy is a custom-assembled electric guitar made with wood from 1004 Spring Garden Street's original construction. Utilizing wood sourced from our store's initial renovations, itself first put there centuries ago during its original construction, two hundred-year-old yellow pine serves as this guitar's body for an instrument that, from square one, blooms with history. The Lucy uses this historic wood to assume an iconic single-cut shape for a timeless look on every level. Further assembled using quality parts with a name shared with Mrs. Lucy Russo, who started Russo Music with her husband Stephen, Lucy is a one-of-a-kind instrument you truly won't find elsewhere.

Sourced from 1004 Spring Garden Street's original pine joist rafters, the Lucy's single-cutaway body is made of two hundred-year-old yellow pine. This wood, weighing in at a more substantial, retro-inspired weight, is fitted with a "smuggler's rout" for resonance and weight relief. The body is decked in a vintage-style nitrocellulose gloss lacquer for an aesthetic reminiscent of '50s and '60s classic models. Exhibiting the deep, textured grain of the ancient yellow pine, each model's nitro lacquer finish translates its unique character directly.

From here, the Lucy builds out with a number of quality parts that bring it into a fully three-dimensional instrument. An AllParts brand, vintage-spec'd maple neck assembles with its body in a Soft "V"-style profile with a nitro finish of its own. Its fingerboard fills out to a retro-inspired 7.25" radius for a rounded feel on the fingers classically fretted.

Lucy chimes with a couple of quality electronics full of personality. In each position, the Russo Music Lucy features an exclusive hand-wound Luther Lee single-coil pickup. Wound for a cool, classic '60s-style tone in the neck and a hotter, P-90 style tone in the bridge, these Russo Music exclusive single-coils feature Alnico V magnets, Emerson Premier Pro solid shaft potentiometers, and Orange Drop capacitors. This custom-assembled guitar tops off with a barrel-saddle, a Kluson Hybrid brass barrel saddle strings-through-body bridge, a bone nut, and Kluson 6-In-Line Deluxe Series tuning machines.

This limited edition Russo Music specialty doesn't travel alone, however. From our friends at D'Addario, the Lucy travels with a Pro Plus capo, a microfiber polishing cloth, a Nexxus 360 rechargeable headstock tuner, a fifteen-foot instrument cable, and a bottle of finish detailer. The Lucy dresses up with an included Russo Music exclusive Souldier guitar strap while a Gator Cases Journeyman Deluxe electric guitar wood case with a custom Russo Music badge brings it from place to place in style.

Two hundred years ago, the builders of what would become 1004 Spring Garden Street had some yellow pine and a nifty building. Today, we've got the same pine, the same building, and a beautiful guitar. You like Lucy? You'll love Lucy.