Workshop Series - Custom "Sympathy for the Devil" Green crackle - 3 String Cigar Box Guitar

Introducing our "Custom" Workshop Series line of guitars. A bright green distressed crackle paint finish over veneered ply box with zinc plated fixing brackets and hand painted "Sympathy for the Devil" design. Derived from our basic workshop guitars, these offer an improved pickup with tone and volume controls, nicer machineheads with a colour coded headstock and block position markers to match the box. These offer genuine play-ability and great tone. Yellow Poplar through neck with "backstrap" thru' body reinforcement, blackwood fretboard with Van Gent nickel silver jumbo fretwire. Hand painted crackle paint position marker decoration, white inlaid side dots, machine screw nut. Our guitar necks are fully profiled by hand using traditional methods for great play-ability and comfortable in-the-hand feel. Finished with shellac, hand rubbed gunstock oil and a final wax coat finish burnished to a satin lustre. 25 1/2 inch scale length. Zilpha nickelwound strings. Tuned G, D, G. Strat sized twin rail humbucker pickup, tone and volume pots, cream chickenhead control knobs, on a custom polished steel plate, "orange drop" tone capacitor, Van Damme hookup wire, Neutrik jack. Super quality chrome "Sta-Tite" open back machine heads. Walnut fretwire bridge. Chrome strap buttons. The "Custom" is a step up from one of our basic workshop guitars. By popular request we have added tone and volume to these models along with our new twin rail humbucker pickup for a really great sound that sounds full and warm when played through a clean amp, and raunchy and edgy with some overdrive. Classic Chickenbone John playability and quality. With over two thousand guitars to our credit, and despite the modest price, these are certainly not "wall hanger" guitars! 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 #2717