Wood Selection
The Drew Shirley Royal Haven is built using the finest materials available. Each piece of wood is selected and paired for each guitar.
Neck
- Mahogany neck w/ single action truss rod
- Glued in with traditional hide glue
- Indian rosewood fingerboard (international fingerboards are made with pau farro)
- Traditional clay marking dots
- Custom side dots
- Nitro finish
Fretting
The fretwork on Elliott guitars is one of the things they are most proud of. They go to the extreme to make sure that your guitar is going to play the best it can. The fingerboard is planed under tension. The fretting process is done with epoxy fretting. A special blend of epoxy is used that makes re-fretting very easy without messing up your fingerboard. This process is used for multiple reasons. One of the advantages to this type of fretting is that you lose the hollow gaps under the fret that you find with the traditional way of fretting. In traditional fretting, with each fret you put on, it is like driving a wedge into the fingerboard, which causes back tension on the neck. With epoxy fretting, all of these issues are eliminated. The epoxy under the frets helps to transfer string vibration throughout the neck to the body, and relieves all stress and tension on the neck that occurs with traditional fretting. This results in a stress-free neck, which allows the truss rod to work properly and to adjust the neck accurately.
Pickups
- Elliott Royal Haven P-90s
Bridge
The bridge option for the Royal Haven is a wrap-around style.
Colors Available
The colors available for the Royal Haven, all with Nitro finish: Cherry Red, TV Yellow, Black