I have played and owned so many different electric guitars over the last 35 years: Aria, DeArmond, Epiphone, Fender, Fernandes, Gibson, Guild, Ibanez, Reverend, Samick, Yamaha . . . I've gone back and forth over those years, but have come to the inescapable conclusion that single coil guitars are where I find my voice. So today my electric stable holds three single-coil equiipped guitars: a Stratocaster, a Telecaster and this new-issue Harmony Rocket. Simple, functional, toneful.
The Korean-made Harmony H54 Rocket is a cost-effective nod to and update of a classic electric guitar model. From the factory the guitar needs little in the way of improvement. I had a bone nut installed to aid tuning stability. For the rest, this guitar is stock.
For the nitty-gritty minded, here are some details about my Rocket:
- Laminated maple body and neck finished in red-to-black sunburst
- Rosewood fingerboard
- Kluson-3x2 tuners
- Medium frets
- Mustache single coil pickups
- 3-Way pickup selector switch
- Two volume and two tone pots
- Rosewood bridge and saddle
- D'Addario strings: .010-.046
- Weighs 7.0 lbs.