Workshop Series - Fretless - Russet - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar

Our simplest and most basic guitars, the "Workshop Series". Russet sunburst over a veneered ply box with a cigar box paper covered scratch plate. 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 a through body reinforcement, medium oak stained. Eco friendly blackwoodTek fretboard, inlaid fret markers and position dots on the top edge of the neck 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, gun stock oil and a final wax coat. 25 1/2 inch scale length. Zilpha hexcore strings. Tuned G D G. Single coil pickup wired direct to a high quality Neutrik jack. Open back bronze "Sta-Tite" pattern machine heads. Bronze strap buttons. Sapele fretwire bridge. A simple frettless 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 #2714