Glistening like a vintage limousine soaring through the rain, the ML3 Pro Traditional has all the grace and style of a vintage vehicle with the roaring engine to match. Equipped with a pair of Seymour Duncan “Hot Tele” Single coil pickups, featuring hand-ground Alnico five rod magnets, a special high output coil wind and wax potted for squeal free performance - this beast is firing on all cylinders. Resplendent with its silky smooth baked maple neck and fingerboard, Stainless Steel frets, lightweight Alder body and stunning metallic finish, as soon as your hand touches the neck you will realise - elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
The ML3 Pro’s gorgeous medium brown roasted maple wood neck is warp resistant and grab-able. You’ll want to pick up and play this guitar with the comfortable C-shaped neck and rolled fretboard edges that enables prolonged play with tuning stability and minimal adjustment required.
Alder is known for its straight grains and structural stability, which makes it a perfect material for the body of the ML3 Pro Traditional guitar. It’s a lightweight wood, which is great for gigging guitarists on the move and when coupled with the roasted maple bolt-on neck it achieves a balanced tonal foundation that is consistent yet versatile.
We argue that the Seymour Duncan Hot Tele set on the Chapman ML3 Pro Traditional makes it a genre-breaking guitar and the higher output of these Alnico 5 pickups and the 3-way switching options gives you flexibility to play what you like, when you like.
Full Specification
Body
BODY SHAPE: ML3 PRO
BODY TOP: Alder Solid Carve Top with Gloss Finish
BODY BACK: Alder with Gloss Finish
Neck
HEADSTOCK: Straight Heritage Headstock
TUNERS: Hipshot Grip-Lock Open (18:1 Gearing)
STRING NUT: 42mm Graph Tech TUSQ Nut
STRING RETAINER: Vintage String Retainers
NECK: Roasted Maple – Dark Colour with Satin Finish
NECK JOINT: Recessed Bolt-on Neck
NECK SIZE: WIDTH: NUT 42mm, 22F 57mm
THICKNESS including fret height: 1F 23.5mm 12F 24.5mm
NECK PROFILEC Shape
TRUSS ROD: Dual Action
FRETBOARD: Roasted Maple – Dark Colour Fretboard with Rolled Edges
FRETBOARD RADIUS: 250mm (~10″)
FRETS: 22 Jumbo Stainless Steel Frets
FRET MARKERS: Glow-in-the-Dark Side Dots
12TH FRET INLAY: Black Infinity
SCALE LENGTH: 648mm (~25.5″)
Electronics
NECK PICKUP: Seymour Duncan Hot Tele Single Coil
MAGNET: Alnico 5
DC RESISTANCE: 9.9k ohms
BRIDGE PICKUPSeymour Duncan Hot Tele Single Coil
MAGNET: Alnico 5
DC RESISTANCE: 16.2k ohms
PICKUP SWITCH: 3 Way Blade Switch
CONTROLS: Master Volume (250k), Master Tone (250k)
Hardware
BRIDGE: Chapman String-Through Tele-Style with Brass Saddles
STRAP BUTTONS: Chapman Strap Locks
STRINGS: Ernie Ball Regular Slinky Nickel Wound, 10-46 (.010 / .013 / .017 / .026 / .036 / .046)
Pickup Switching
POSITION 1Bridge
POSITION 2Bridge + Neck
POSITION 3Neck
| Clearance Item | No |
|---|---|
| Brand | Chapman |
