The Svyataya Anna is inspired by Soviet Union era guitars. Design cues are taken from the Ural 650 and blended with more familiar offset design ideas. The neck is a single piece of maple, lending it stability and strength. The red stain and white accents are references to the Soviet Union and the fate of the Svyataya Anna.

A unique switching system provides both traditional Stratocaster sounds as well as Gibson humbucker sounds. Traditionally, single coil pickups are said to sound best when run through 250k potentiometers and humbuckers sound best run through 500k pots. The volume and tone knobs on the Svyataya Anna control a pair of stacked pots, with one pot of each value. This allows each pickup to sound the best it can. In addition, the rhythm switch wires the middle and neck pickups in series and then send this combo through the 500k pots. This results in an authentic neck humbucker sound.

Guitar in photos is configured:

Neck: One piece maple, bolt-on, crushed abalone inlay, walnut skunk stripe and binding

Body: Alder

Hardware: Mastery Bridge, Warmoth Vibrato, Gotoh Tuners

Pickups: DiMarzio PAF 36th Anniversary bridge, DiMarzio Area 67 middle, DiMarzio Area 58 neck

Controls: 1 Volume, 1 Tone, 5-way switch (bridge, bridge/middle parallel, middle, middle/neck parallel, neck), rhythm switch (when up, position 3 and 4 are both middle, position 5 is middle/neck in series)

Scale Length: 25”

Frets: 21