This is a truly world-class instrument. Hand-carved top and back, hand-cut maple and ebony purfling and bindings, beautiful Mother of Pearl inlays, gorgeous hand-picked selection of the finest tonewoods, extraordinary fit and finish, awesome tone…… Lindy Fralin humbuckers .The Fusion is Brian Kingston’s take on this venerable guitar. To find more tone he has replaced the plywood top, back and sides of the 335 with solid select tonewoods. The Fusion’s mahogany neck, sides, kerfing, centerblock and fully carved back form a homogenous unit that really warms the tone and feeds the sustain. When the bite of the fully carved European Curly Maple top is coupled with the clarity, articulation and punch of the custom-wound Lindy Fralin humbuckers and added to the equation the result is that the Fusion is capable of almost pure acoustic sounds right up through those big, fat, creamy Duane Allman tones. A 2-way adjustable truss rod is flanked on each side by carbon fiber rods that extend from the peghead all the way past the neck joint to the 21st fret. This increases neck stiffness and sustain while adding little extra weight and eliminating the possibility of dead spots.