Euro HSS with an Art Deco Aura
The Paloma electric guitar from Duesenberg marks a distinctly European blend of HSS flexibility and esteemed, cultured aesthetics inspired by rippling art deco lines and angles. The Paloma boasts a comfortably contoured solidbody design. Duesenberg sourced American alder wood, which provides a near-instant response with lots of bright character. Alder’s versatile sound, when paired with the Paloma’s custom HSS pickups, fuels everything from funky, percussive rhythm work to tangy leads. The Paloma is dressed from headstock to heel with proprietary Duesenberg hardware, including a Diamond Deluxe Tremola — guitarists at Sweetwater love this tremolo's expressiveness and 360-degree adjustable arm. The rosewood fretboard’s compound radius is joined by a Classic D-shaped neck, Duesenberg Z-Tuners, and a delightfully expressive tremolo, ensuring ultra-smooth playability and rock-solid sonic stability are always the baseline.
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Juicy custom pickups
The Paloma’s three custom-voiced pickups are vintage inspired and optimized to shine with minimal effort on your part. The bridge-mounted Grand Vintage humbucker is a staple of Duesenberg design, packing the warmth and dimensions of early PAF humbuckers while dialing up the output slightly. Shimmering cleans, defined crunch, and filthy distortion are just a few of the voices that suit the Grand Vintage humbucker’s range. Unlike many HSS guitars, the Paloma’s neck- and middle-position single-coil pickups are voiced differently, with a Pearlito pickup in the middle position and an Alnico-Blade pickup in the neck position. Each single-coil boasts a distinct character and can achieve everything from funky twang and charismatic upper-fret leads to a transparent stringy rattle bordering on an acoustic guitar. With three uniquely voiced pickups onboard, you’ll find the Paloma one of the most versatile HSS options around!
The neck and fingerboard of your dreams
The Paloma’s effortless playability empowers you to quickly connect dots on the fingerboard while creating richer musical routines every time you pick it up. A maple neck provides the snappy, quick response of classic Cali-style guitars that players love, but it does so with a set-neck design for enhanced sustain and improved access to the upper frets. Speaking of frets, the Indian rosewood fingerboard’s 22 jumbo frets make for fluent bends. Moreover, this retro-futuristic offset features a fretboard designed with a compound 12–14-inch radius; this subtle touch enables fast leaps up and down the neck with optimized support regardless of where you land.
Duesenberg: the 6-string pride of Deutschland
Founded by German guitar designer Dieter Gölsdorf in 1989, Duesenberg guitars represent a multinational mixing pot of American art deco aesthetics, hot-rod heritage, and exacting German engineering. Duesenberg’s utterly distinctive instruments — affectionately dubbed “Doozys” by their adherents — gleam with proprietary parts and pickups that merge the daring appointments of the early electric guitar age with the pinpoint precision of modern manufacturing excellence. From the iconic Starplayer semi-hollow guitars to basses, lap steels, and beyond, every Duesenberg that Sweetwater carries embodies consummate artisanship. Fittingly, this unerring dedication has attracted more than a few luminaries, including the likes of Bob Dylan, Joe Walsh, Mike Campbell, John Mayer, and Tom Bukovac. For the musician who demands superlative performance, idiosyncratic innovation, and master-level musical detail in equal measure, only a Doozy will do.
Duesenberg Paloma Features:
- American alder body supplies a bright, instant response with classic tonal traits
- Set maple neck with Classic D profile ensures prismatic performances and playability
- Indian rosewood fingerboard with a supportive compound radius marries crystalline sonic character with immense adaptability for nearly any playing style
- Pearloid diamond fingerboard inlays
- Jumbo-size frets make for smooth, effortless string bends
- Duesenberg 3-point Radius Bridge, Diamond Deluxe Tremola, and maintenance-free Z-Tuners
- Custom HSS pickup configuration: Grand Vintage bridge humbucker, middle Pearlito single-coil, and neck Alnico-Blade single-coil
