This guitar is a 'bitzer', as it's made from bits and pieces left over from the other two builds. I made it for a bit of a laugh really, but it's actually very playable! The box was cobbled together from some sheet aluminium I had left over from my Fine Art days, and the neck was made of pine (risky, I know) and strips of mahogany. The neck is very slippy, and is reinforced with a hefty square steel truss-rod. The frets are very skinny, as I wanted to play slide without all the clattering of higher fret wire. I'd tried a fretless version for slide, but I found it had limited appeal for what I like to play. The knobs are some I made from polymer, as I couldn't get anything unusual to bung on it! I feel this is more in the spirit of cigarbox guitar, in that it is a sort of 'make do and mend' experiment.
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That is 'Killer" !!!