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If this is your first serious electric, the Revolution at $799. It's the entry point to the lineup, not a beginner compromise — same 24" scale, same hourglass contour, same Quick-Swap system as the Elites, and the widest color range. Step up to the Elite or Dark Roast when you want a USA-built instrument: figured roasted maple, DiMarzio pickups, a premium tremolo, and Luminlay side dots that glow onstage.

Because it's a different instrument, not a nicer version of the same one. The Revolution is built in Indonesia with a White Jabon body and a fixed bridge. The Elite and Dark Roast are built in the USA with a roasted basswood body and figured maple cap, a torrefied purpleheart fretboard, DiMarzio pickups, and a US-made tremolo. Same shape, same ergonomics, different build.

No. Full-size, full-featured — dual humbuckers with coil-splitting, stainless steel frets, a compound-radius fretboard, and the same ergonomic design as every Venus. It's built to take you from your first chord to playing out, not to be outgrown in a year.

Guitar Player's reviewer put the adjustment at about twenty minutes, after which it stopped feeling different and started feeling right.

A 25.5" scale spaces the frets further apart and puts the strings under higher tension. At 24", the frets sit closer together and the strings are easier to press and bend — bends that take real effort on a standard-scale guitar come almost free.

More than almost any other spec, and nobody talks about it. Ergonomic guidance suggests women carry no more than about 5% of their body weight on one shoulder for extended periods — roughly half the guideline for men.

For a 140-pound player, that's about 7 pounds. Every Venus is between 5.5 and 6.25.

Women also have less soft tissue over the collarbone, so a heavy guitar doesn't just tire your muscles — it presses on bone.

No tools, no expertise. Quick-Swap changes your pickguard in under ten seconds — four shapes, eighteen colors.

The Elite and Dark Roast add the Amulet system: swappable medallions for the headstock, body, and SuperStrap.

The Revolution has a fixed metal headstock amulet.

They're designed for women — that's the whole point, and it's why the scale, weight, and contours are what they are. But smaller frames aren't gendered, and neither is comfort.

Plenty of players buy a Venus for the simple reason that a 5.5-pound guitar that fits beats a 9-pound one that doesn't.

Send it back. Venus offers a 7-day satisfaction guarantee with a full refund and return shipping covered.

You can't know how a guitar sits against your body from a photo — which is exactly why the policy exists.

Revolution, Elite and Pearl ship from stock.

Dark Roast 5A Top may have a short lead time, generally 1–6 weeks; we'll confirm your ship date after you order.

Custom Dark Roast orders are built to your spec and take longer.