In 2025, HAGSTROM celebrated its 100th anniversary and 60 years of the legendary Viking® model. To mark this historic double milestone, we present the HAGSTROM Viking® 100th Anniversary Edition: a tribute to our craftsmanship and timeless design.
The semi-hollow body is crafted from hand-selected Canadian curly maple, delivering the characteristic warmth and resonance that define the Viking®'s character. The HAGSTROM Resinator™ fingerboard, known for its stability and balanced sound reproduction, features an exclusive Ragnarök snake fingerboard inlay, symbolizing tradition, transformation, and rebirth.
In honor of this occasion, this limited edition Viking® is equipped with newly developed HAGSTROM Custom 58 Pro AlNiCo 5 humbucking pickups in elegant gold. Each pickup features a nickel/silver frame and cover, a material that emphasizes overtones and improves overall clarity. The coil windings have been specially tuned to offer players a slightly more dynamic tonal range, providing more warmth, precise articulation, and a touch of sharpness in the highs and mids. Whether you're playing expressive blues, articulate jazz, or rousing rock leads, these pickups respond beautifully to all the subtleties with transparent clarity.
The instrument is equipped with high-quality Gotoh hardware in gold, including precision tuners, a Tune-O-Matic bridge, a specially designed tailpiece, and Gotoh locking straps for superior stability and live performance on stage.
The HAGSTROM Viking® 100th Anniversary Edition is more than just an instrument. It is a tribute to the heritage, craftsmanship, and promising future of HAGSTROM.
All Hagstrom electric guitars and basses include our patented H-Expander™ truss rod design. Introduced with the new Swede and Super Swede models and coupled with a dual action truss rod, making adjustments even more accurate, it is fit for a whole new generation of players while retaining Hagstrom’s reputation as the world’s fastest playing guitar. The H-Expander™ truss rod not only provides ultimate neck adjust- and stability, but it also contributes to Hagstrom’s unique tone. Longer sustain and a round attack are some of the sonic characteristics the H-Expander™ adds to the tonal essence of Hagstrom.
Resinator™ wood is a wood composite material that is both more uniform in density and more stable than any standard wood product. These characteristics eliminate dead spots or “wolf tones” sometimes associated with conventional wood fingerboards. Resinator™ wood has an articulate sound similar to high quality ebony, but without any of the problems associated with ebony. It provides a stable and clear tone, and also adds higher overtones and harmonics which uniquely detail each note. Like our H-Expander™ truss rod, Resinator™ wood is a major contributor to the distinctive “Hagstrom tone”.
Hagstrom uses a variety of different neck joints throughout our range. Our set-neck recipe is the classic and time-tested Mortise and Tenon joint, a design that most efficiently transfers string energy from neck to body, and can often only be found on more expensive custom-built guitars. A team of experienced and dedicated craftsmen hand carves every neck joint, insuring perfect execution of this traditional technique preferred by luthiers for generations.
| Body | 5 layers of flamed Canadian maple |
|---|---|
| Style | Double cutaway, bound F-holes |
| Binding | Multi-layer binding |
| Neck | Canadian maple, mortise-and-tenon neck joint |
| Neck profile | Slim C |
| Neck truss rod | H-Expander™ |
| Fingerboard | Resinator™ |
| Scale length | 24.75" (628 mm) |
| Radius | 15" |
| Fingerboard inlay | Pearloid Ragnarök inlay |
| Frets | 22 medium jumbo |
| Nut | GraphTech Black Tusq XL |
| Nut width | 43 mm |
| Neck pickup | Custom 58 PRO AlNiCo-5 No. 5 humbucker |
| Bridge pickup | Custom 58 PRO AlNiCo-5 No. 5 humbucker |
| Switch | 3-way pickup selector switch |
| Controls | 2 x volume controls with R/C circuitry (resistor + capacitor), 2 x tone controls Hardware |
| Bridge | Gotoh TOM Bridge TI103B-T-GG Gold |
| Machine heads | Gotoh Tuners |
| Strings | D'Addario EXP 110 (10-46) |
| Optional case | C-55 |
| Optional gig bag | E-25 |
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