Electric guitar Mirage Ervin II american design Paul Gobat

Mirage Ervin II electric guitar, American design                                   Paul Gobat

This is a stunning example of a Mirage guitar. It is very PRS-like in construction and feel. It has a richly figured maple top with head-turning abalone bindings throughout.

The body is solid mahogany body and the neck is set. 
The neck has a 22-fret fingerboard. It has a beautiful playability

The Wilkinson Tremolo is well balanced and holds tune really well, supported by a fine set of locking machine heads.

The volume and tone controls are silent and responsive. The pickups are all slimline blade providing rich powerful tone.
'The model is a Mirage Ervin II. It was our Korean production model, as opposed to the U.S. model, the Ervin l. There were a total of 475 of those particular guitars made so I suppose that you could call them rare, while there were only 19 of the U.S. models ever produced.

Catastrophic fire that destroyed the factory:
'In 2006 there was a catastrophic 
fire that destroyed the factory, warehouse, and all the tooling. Despite the high demand that I return to building guitars the loss was too great. You just can't replace almost 30 years of templates, drawings, and special tools, as wee know this one her is the only one in Portugal.