2024 Circle Strings More Paul

This is a 2025 Circle Strings More Paul electric guitar with a Red Sunburst top. It is a semi-hollow body with a carved Torrefied Maple cap on a Rorrefied Alder body. The neck is a three piece laminate of highly figured Torrefied Maple with an Ebony center strip; it is a fixed-neck construction with a join to the body at the seventeenth fret and an ebony heel cap artfully installed to complete the line of the cutaway on the back. The headstock has an Ebony headplate with the Circle Strings logo inlaid in mother of pearl and a single line of purfling around the edge. A truss rod cover engraved with the script More Paul model name and a set of Kluson Deluxe tuners with Tulip buttons round out the fittings on the headstock. The fingerboard is ebony with twenty two medium jumbo frets and mother of pearl inlays at the third, fifth, seventh, ninth, twelfth, fifteenth, seventeenth, nineteenth and twenty first frets. The bisected block fret marker design was introduced by Circle Strings at the 2024 NAMM show. A single line of white purfling runs around the edge of the fingerboard. 

The fingerboard has a 12” radius and the scale length is 24 ¾.” The neck profile is a “C” at the lower frets, transitioning to a “D” profile with a soft “V” as move up the neck. It is the same neck profile used on the Circle Strings Languedoc G4, a new model built in collaboration with Paul Languedoc. The top is finished in a high gloss deep Burgundy Burst. There is a single line of purfling around the body and around an F-hole on the bass side. The rim has a black-white side purfling. Two Ebony pickup rings surround the pickups with an indent on each, echoing the design of the fingerboard inlays. The back has relief cut out at the bass side edge and around the neck joint, allowing for easy access to the upper frets. An Ebony plate covers the electronics cavity.

The More Paul weighs in at 6.2 pounds. Overall it is 39” long, 12 ¾” wide at the lower bout and 9 ¾” at the upper. The body is 17” long. It is well balanced and the body contours ensure that it is comfortable to play both sitting down or with a strap. The strings are held in place with a chrome plated stop tailpiece with a “Nashville” style adjustable bridge. The electronics consist of two Gemini Wide Range humbuckers, a three way selector with a volume and tone for each pickup and black speed knobs are mounted. 

The design was inspired by several Pauls, most notably Paul Languedoc’s instruments, informing many carefully considered choices. Torrefied wood is heated in a zero oxygen environment. It adds character to the wood, both sonically and visually, with very pleasing results in both cases. The electronics sound fantastic, the guitar is unusually comfortable to hold and play and the neck feels great.