Workshop Series, Yellow "I Went Down to the Crossroads" - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar

Our simplest and most basic guitars, the "Workshop Series". Bright yellow crackle paint finish over veneered ply box with hand painted "I Went Down to the Crossroads" design with distressed zinc plated fixing brackets and upgraded rail humbucker pickup. Derived from our highly successful "Make and Play" workshop guitars, these offer genuine playability and great tone at a bargain price. Yellow Poplar through neck with backstrap through body reinforcement in a dark oak stain and distressed finish to work well with the box. Blackwood fretboard with white face position markers and white side dots, Van Gent super jumbo frets and distressed machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional methods for great playability and comfortable in-the-hand feel. Finished with shellac, hand-rubbed gunstock oil and with a final wax coat buffed to a satin sheen. 25 1/2 inch scale length. Zilpha nickelwound hexcore strings. Tuned G D G. Cream rail humbucker pickup wired direct to a high quality Neutrik jack. Quality bronze open back "Sta-Tite" pattern machine heads. Walnut fretwire bridge. Black strap buttons. Our most basic fretted guitar, but still with the classic Chickenbone John playability and quality. With over 2500 guitars to our credit, and despite the low price, these are certainly not "wall hanger" guitars! How can we do it at this price? Over ten years of experience making and playing cigar box guitars goes into these instruments, so our workshop is lean, mean and efficient, but our instruments are still full of soul and passion. Serial #2726