Body: (from 1956 "White Guard Templates) One piece or two piece Flitch Matched light weight flat Sawn Swamp Ash, optional light wieght Alder comes with centre wire pickup route.
Neck: Bolt on, Hard "V" Carved, One Piece Flat Sawn Highly Figured (hard or soft) Maple c/w Slab Board (optional fingerboard woods avail.). Compound Radius 7.25" - 10". Double Action Truss Rod. (Optional "Skunk Stripe" insert with single Action Rod avail.) Circle - Split Satellite Inlays. (Optional 50's Clay Dots avail.). Vintage 50's Spec Fret Wire.
BODY (2 3/8”thick): Figured book matched Maple cap, bound & carved. (optional solid carved spruce top), multi chambered Honduras Mahogany body. (optional solid Body Center Block + four Chambers or all chambered)(varied woods avail.)(optional L-7 Bigsby with roller bridge or Vintage/ custom fixed tail piece with Tunamatic )(optional Wood back plates)
NECK: 17 degree 3+3 Bound Cranium Divine "Alfelfa Swirl" - Glued “T” jointed, one piece 1/4 sawn Honduras Mahogany (optional woods avail.), 24 3/4”scale with choice of Brazilian-Indian-Ebony Finger Board Wood options. optional Bound Matching Head Stock Veneer. Tulip style Klusson Machine Heads. 6105 Fret Wire, Vintage single action rod (optional double action), optional Volute Head Stock belief. Bone Nut. Trapzoid ivoriod inlays.
This highly functional piece of artwork is dimensionally reminiscent of late 50’s "Deep Dish" Carved Top solid bodied Gibsons. With varied Bookmatched cap wood options, it's light wood selection offers overall diminished instrument weight, with colourful compressed acoustic overtones and a tonal precision of balance.
BODY (2 3/8”thick): Highly Figured book matched Maple cap, bound & Deeply Carved, Flatsawn Honduras Mahogany Body.(optional B-7 Bigsby with Roller Tunamatic Bridge or wrap around Stop Tail Piece) Comes Standard with Nickle AB-1
Tunamatic and Nickle over aluminum Stop Tailpiece.
NECK: 17 degree 3+3 Bound Cranium Divine "Alfelfa Swirl" with Hyde Glued Long tendent “T” jointed, one piece 1/4 sawn Honduras Mahogany, 24 3/4”scale with 12" radius Bound Brazilian Rosewood Board with optional matching Bound Head Stock Veneer. Single ring Tulip styled Klusson Machine Heads. 6105 Dunlop fret wire, Vintage Single Action hand made Truss Rod. Optional Volute Head Stock relief. Hand Cut Bone Nut, Ivoroid-Pearloid Trapzoid Inlays.
View more info on Cranium Divine "59' Lester"BODY (44mm thick): One piece flat sawn Honduras Mahogany body, (varied woods avail.)(optional Horseshoe Bigsby with roller bridge or Vintage wraparound/ custom fixed tail piece with Tunamatic)(optional Wood back plates)
NECK: Glued “T” jointed, one piece Honduras Mahogany (optional woods avail.), 24 3/4”scale with choice of Bound Finger Board Woods (optional compound radius avail), matching Head Stock Veneer & Trussrod cover (inquire). Tulip style Klusson Machine Heads. Choice of Fret Wire sizes, Vintage single action rod (optional double action), Volute Head Stock belief. Bone Nut (optional materials avail.) Single circle/ dual satellite inlays (custom available).