Bolt neck double cutaway with ash body, maple neck, black pickguard, chrome hardware, brass nut, brass hardtail bridge with strings through body, and dual humbuckers with coil tap toggle switch, brass knobs.


Standard models:


X130N Natural

X130S Walnut stain


Custom models had premium tuners, canadian rock maple bodies:


X130B Black

X130W White

X130R Red

X130BL Blue










photos courtesy of Tim Root.



The X130 was one of the first Electra Phoenixes to appear in 1980. The standard models have wonderfully resonant figured ash bodies, and the brass nut and hardtail string-though bridge add to the great tone. In later years this model omitted the string-through-body holes.



From the 1981 pricelist:

this is the model i have.

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