A number of traditional features here including the old rusty key, but hollowed out the cigar box lid and used a reproduction metal railway sign for a resonator, the cigar box had been hanging around my place for years - I souped the guitar up a little with one of C.B.Gitty's "magic" piezo acoustic "hot" rod pickups directly under the plate/key....this thing really roars out a traditional metallic CBG tone!The neck is made from American Oak, the Zebrano wood fretless board had the "frets" and markers burned on with a hot soldering iron.25.5" string scale, D'Addario guitar strings .036/.026..013 gauge tuned to GDG.
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