Rosewood and Fiddleback Ash M1T Thinline

Thankfully, with the amount of fantastic rosewood on this instrument, the customer lives in the US! This guitar was started prior to the CITES restrictions on transactions in rosewood crossing international borders, but completed afterwards. But when you have a guitar that looks like this, who needs to travel?!
This guitar has a lot of really special stuff going on and it was a pleasure to work with the owner on it. To name of a few of my favorite details:

  • Split block inlay outlines in aluminum
  • The most fiddleback ash I've ever seen, personally harvested by a good friend of Raygun's in Arkansas
  • The hollow chamber on the bass side is fully 3D and perfectly follows the contour of the belly carve of the back! Maximizes both strength of the body as well as the volume of material removed for this thinline

Neck:

  • Wood: Curly Maple
  • Fretboard: African Blackwood Rosewood
  • Scale: 25.5"
  • Radius: 9.5"
  • Nut Width: 1 11/16"
  • Carve: C
  • Headstock: 3-a-side with East Indian Rosewood wings
  • Inlays: Aluminum split block outlines
  • Tuners: Gold Hipshot open-backed locking tuners

Body:

  • Wood: East Indian Rosewood top over hollowed fiddleback Southern Ash
  • Width: 13"
  • Bridge: Gotoh modern tele
  • Finish: Gloss nitrocellulose

Electronics:

Standard tele-style volume/tone (soviet old-stock paper in oil capacitor) with 3-way selection. Pickups are McNelly Tele A5 Signature Plus and a "Wild Range" neck.

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