Thinline electric guitar








25. 5” scale 

Set neck 

Body pitch pine with a mahogany top. Pine from a Victorian hospital bench, mahogany from a 1910s gramaphone case. Chambered with sound hole. 

Neck mahogany from old wardrobe 

rosewood board, position markers made from old string ball-ends

Staples p90 in neck, regular p90 in bridge, master volume bass and hi cut controls 

Tunomatic roller bridge and Bigsby type tremolo arm 

bone nut

finished in green tinted shellac, and button shellac

Rear strap lug made from turntable speed control of gramaphone 

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