USED Flight Phantom All Solid Acacia Electro Acoustic Tenor Ukulele w/Gigbag

Please note this used Flight tenor ukulele is available for purchase by UK customers only.

The Flight Phantom is one of my personal favourite ukuleles in the Flight catalogue right now. This acacia tenor ukulele has literally everything you can think of going for it. It's solid acacia and is utterly gorgeous. It sounds mellow and sweet but still has enough volume to work well in an ensemble.

The gloss finish manages to add a lot to the overall look of the instrument whilst also doing a great job of tightening up the overall sound. So, you can get lovely short snappy notes out of the ukulele but also get a nice almost harp like chord sound when you strum.

The front and back black binding looks great. The very modern looking sleek slotted headstock does nothing to detract away attention from the lovely wood they put on the body. The Flight Phantom is also one of the rare tenor ukuleles out there at this price to feature a slightly wider 38mm nut width and a pin bridge.

It's so interesting how Flight models take the popular features of other ukuleles and put them together... The first time I opened the bag on this ukulele I said it reminded me of a Pono ATD. I stand by that first impression as time has passed and I am writing this now. The pickup is excellent too. 

If I was to be overly critical of this model I would say that the only thing that lets it down are tiny cosmetic flaws in the finish... The gloss is 95% of the way there but in certain lights on the first few of these we have seen there are pin-pricks where the gloss has run slightly. This sounds like the end of the world but is actually extremely common on all modern finishes - even on Kanile'a ukes at 5-6 times the price! So, you shouldn't let this observation influence whether you choose a Flight over something else. The Flight is still better finished than many other ukuleles we see every day.

Actual instrument shown in the pictures in this listing. This one has a light scratch in the gloss on the back, but is otherwise in very presentable condition. So, 8.5/10 on the strength of that scratch, which you can only see in certain lights. The rest of the body looks great.

Specification:
Solid Acacia top, back and sides
Gloss finish to body
African mahogany neck, gloss finish
Ebony fingerboard and bridge
Bone nut and saddle
Black geared tuners
38mm nut width
Unique slotted headstock
Double active pickup with soundhole mounted tone controls
Aquila super nylgut low G strings
Padded gigbag