Own a contemporary classic with the award-winning Faith FVGH3 HiGloss Venus Cutaway Electro-Acoustic Guitar. Celebrated as a five-time winner of the UK's Best Acoustic Guitar Award, this iconic instrument serves as an industry reference point for balance, projection, and player comfort.
Comfortable Auditorium Body and All-Solid Construction
By merging a standard auditorium silhouette with a shallower body depth and a 15-inch lower bout, the Venus auditorium body shape provides a highly ergonomic, non-fatiguing performance experience for stage use without sacrificing any of its robust acoustic authority.
The core performance of this award-winning model is driven by an all-solid selection of premium tonewoods. A high-grade soundboard of solid Engelmann spruce handles the top-end duties, offering a highly responsive, crisp articulation that reacts dynamically to subtle changes in your pick attack. This is paired with highly figured, solid Indonesian rosewood back and sides, utilizing a modern three-piece back layout designed to maximize sustainable wood use while preserving classic sonic properties.
Together, this spruce and rosewood combination creates a heavily articulated frequency curve that sweeps like a smile, combining punchy, deep bass notes with brilliant, shimmering trebles and a naturally transparent midrange.
Patrick James Eggle Design and Ebony Appointments
Built with traditional acoustic integrity, the soundboard is reinforced using hand-scalloped, quarter-sawn spruce bracing arranged in a custom Patrick James Eggle X-brace pattern. This structural architecture frees the solid top to vibrate completely, elevating natural projection and clarity. The neck is constructed from solid mahogany with a smooth satin finish and a shallow C profile, joined to the body via a stable Patrick James Eggle bolt-on neck joint.
Underneath your fingertips sits a Macassan figured ebony fingerboard, beautifully matching the ebony bridge, bridge pins, headplate, and heel cap. A high-performance TUSQ nut and saddle ensure optimum string coupling and vibration transfer across the entire fretboard.
Advanced Fishman INK3 Electronics System
Engineered to deliver exceptional live audio fidelity, the Venus FVGH3 comes equipped with a low-profile Fishman INK3 preamp system coupled to an undersaddle Fishman Sonicore piezo pickup strip. This streamlined onboard unit provides a hum-free signal path that tames harsh piezoelectric frequencies, yielding a studio-grade acoustic mix directly through your amplifier or front-of-house PA system.
The control interface sits flush against the upper bout, giving you quick access to a three-band equaliser, a Master Volume control knob, and a bright backlit chromatic tuner for immediate, silent tuning adjustments on stage.
Faith Hi Gloss Venus FVGH3 Cutaway Electro-Acoustic Guitar Specifications
- Top Material - Solid Engelmann spruce.
- Back & Sides Material - Solid Indonesian rosewood (three-piece back construction).
- Body Shape - Auditorium-inspired Venus profile with cutaway.
- Bracing Material - Hand-scalloped quarter-sawn spruce.
- Bracing Pattern - Patrick James Eggle X-brace design.
- Neck Material - Mahogany.
- Neck Finish - Satin.
- Neck Joint - Patrick James Eggle bolt-on design.
- Fingerboard Material - Macassan figured ebony.
- Scale Length - 25.39" (64.5 cm).
- Nut Width - 43 mm.
- Fingerboard Radius - 16" (40.6 cm).
- Nut & Saddle Material - TUSQ.
- Binding - Solid flamed maple.
- Rosette - 5mm abalone with fibre border.
- Bridge Material - Macassan figured ebony.
- Bridge Pins - Macassan figured ebony with abalone dots.
- Tuning Machines - Grover Rotomatic gold.
- Preamp / Pickup - Fishman INK3 preamp with undersaddle Sonicore pickup.
- Included Accessories - Plush-lined woodshell hardcase.
The Faith HiGloss Venus Cutaway Electro-Acoustic Guitar earns its place as a cornerstone instrument for fingerstyle soloists, tracking session artists, and touring singer-songwriters. It stands as a dependable choice for players who want the complex tone of an all-solid premium acoustic combined with reliable, high-fidelity stage electronics.