Reverend Reeves Gabrels Dirtbike Metallic Blue

The Reverend Reeves Gabrels Dirtbike Metallic Blue is a signature model based on the Sensei platform. This stripped back solid body electric guitar has a lot more to offer than first meets the eye. Pop in to our Glasgow shop for a demo or buy online for fast delivery across the UK and Europe. Every guitar is professionally setup before dispatch so that it reaches you ready to play straight out the box.

Reverend Reeves Gabrels Dirtbike Metallic Blue

The Reeves Gabrels Dirtbike Reeves Blue is based on the Sensei platform, coming with a single pickup, solid body, set neck guitar and tremolo. Reeves Gabrels has always enjoyed the simplicity of a single pickup guitar going straight in to an amp. With this signature model, Reverend and Reeves have taken that idea and created an absolutely brilliant electric guitar that is a lot more versatile than it first appears. Reverend matched the light metallic blue colour of two of Reeves favourite 2 wheeled machines, a 1966 Schwinn Stingray and a 1971 Honda dirtbike!

The Reverend Dirtbike is fitted with the Railhammer Reeves Gabrels signature humbucker with a super cool brushed nickel cover. Reeves asked Joe Naylor (Reverend and Railhammer founder) to create a mean sounding pickup that offers great pick attack and overtones. It’s got loads of mid range peak that’s a little snarly but never muddy. This Alnico pickup performs amazingly both clean and with gain. The Railhammer design means the lows are kept tight and the highs thick and creamy. The Reeves signature pickup sounds great clean and has plenty of chime. The simple three controls allow you to dial in a surprising amount of tones from this single pickup guitar. You can roll back on the volume when playing with gain to really clean things up. The tone is also kept bright and clear thanks to a treble bleed capacitor on the volume pot. The tone control can be used to warm up the sound to jazzy levels and the bass contour allows you to dial in some snap and single coil like attack. Reverend use high quality potentiometers and capacitors on all of their instruments.

The Reverend Reeves Gabrels Dirtbike Reeves Blue is made from solid Korina which is highly resonant and well balanced. The Korina set neck features a six in line headstock which is pitched back and means there is no need for a string tree. Fitted to the 12” Ebony fingerboard are 22 jumbo frets. Reverend’s fret work is excellent. They are highly polished and perfectly level meaning you can get the action nice and low without any issues.

The Dirtbike has a Wilkinson WVS50 IIK Tremolo fitted along with a recessed cavity and another Joe Naylor invention, the Vari-Claw. The Vari-Claw allows you to easily switch between 3 springs in the middle hooks of the claw for a firm feel, or 2 springs on the outside recessed hooks of the claw for a soft feel, with little or no adjustment to the claw itself. You can really go wild with the trem and tuning is kept incredibly stable. This is thanks in part to the locking tuners and slippery Boneite nut.

We’ve fallen in love with the Reverend Reeves Gabrels Dirtbike in Reeves Metallic Blue here at Merchant City Music. This model from Reverend would make an excellent addition to any guitar players collection.